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Jun 27, 2016

Shaffer Quoted by Foreign Policy on Energy’s Positive Role in the Israel-Turkey Relationship

By Brenda Shaffer

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Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

MENASource

Jun 23, 2016

The AKP’s Push for a Presidential System

By Aaron Stein

The recent resignation of former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his replacement with incoming Prime Minister Binali Yidirim represents a shift in Turkish domestic politics. Yildirim, a long-time close ally to current Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has pledged to work towards implementing Erdogan’s top domestic priority: a new constitution to bring about a […]

Turkey

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Jun 16, 2016

Stein in War on the Rocks: Fear and Loathing in the Levant: Turkey Change Its Syria Policy and Strategy

By Aaron Stein

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New Atlanticist

Jun 15, 2016

Tourism in Turkey Takes a Hit

By John M. Roberts

Istanbul is commonly described as a city on two continents. Well, Istanbul’s main airport is now a city of two worlds: its transit halls as full as ever; the arrival areas eerily quiet. This is the visible side of the collapse of tourism in Turkey, the consequence of bombings in cities and a return to […]

Turkey

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Jun 6, 2016

Turkey’s Defense Industrial Policy Featured in Hurriyet Daily News

By Aaron Stein

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Jun 6, 2016

Itani Joins VOA Turkish Service to Discuss Turkish-US Cooperation in Syria

By Faysal Itani

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In the News

Jun 2, 2016

Itani, Stein Join VOA Turkish Service to Discuss Turkish-US Cooperation in Syria

By Aaron Stein & Faysal Itani

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Defense Industrialist

May 31, 2016

State secretaries on supply and demand

By James Hasik

Learnings on comparative defense-industrial strategy during lunch two NATO defense ministry officials Last week the Atlantic Council hosted senior defense-industrial officials from Germany and Turkey for discussions about their evolving plans. Taking the time to reread their biographies, we remembered that some of NATO’s member states are clearly finding accomplished people to run military materiel […]

Defense Industry Germany

MENASource

May 27, 2016

What an Islamic State Offensive in Aleppo means for US Policy

By Faysal Itani

On May 26 the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) launched a successful westward offensive in Syria’s northern Aleppo countryside. ISIS effectively encircled thousands of insurgent fighters in the town of Marea and is now less than 2 miles from the critical opposition-held city of Azaz. Although ISIS only seized six villages and may yet lose […]

Syria Turkey

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May 27, 2016

European Energy Security Conference Quoted by Daily News on US Energy Development

By Atlantic Council

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