Mardini on the Crisis in Kobani

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Sep 13, 2024

A sea of opportunities: Exploring cooperation between Turkey and the West in the Black Sea

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Atlantic Council Turkey Programs

In the political sphere, the interests of Turkey and the West in the Black Sea largely overlap.

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Mardini on the Crisis in Kobani

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Aug 28, 2024

Turkey wants to end the war in Ukraine—and might have a formula to do it

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Rich Outzen

Turkey would play a role in a cease-fire and post-war arrangement, drawing on a history of balance and deterrence in the Black Sea region.

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Mardini on the Crisis in Kobani

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Jul 8, 2024

Turkey’s emerging and disruptive technologies capacity and NATO: Defense policy, prospects, and limitations

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Can Kasapoğlu and Sine Özkaraşahin

An issue brief exploring Turkey’s defense technological ecosystem and leveraging its capabilities for the benefit of NATO.

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In the News

Nov 20, 2014

Mardini on the Crisis in Kobani

By Atlantic Council

Bloomberg quotes Rafik Hariri Center Nonresident Fellow Ramzy Mardini on how the ongoing crisis in the Turkish city of Kobani has affected Kurdish nationalism:

Turkey

MENASource

Nov 3, 2014

What Would the Turkish Buffer Zone Mean for Syria’s Displaced?

By Matthew Hall, a Q&A with Elizabeth Ferris

In September, the radical jihadist group ISIS launched a major offensive in northeastern Syria, overrunning scores of Kurdish villages along the warpath to Kobani, a strategic town on the Turkish border.

Syria Turkey

In the News

Oct 31, 2014

Ricciardone on the State of Turkish Influence

By Francis Ricciardone

The Wall Street Journal quotes VP and Rafik Hariri Center Director Francis Ricciardone on Turkish influence in the Middle East:

Turkey
Russian jets over Victory Day Parade, May 9, 2010

NATOSource

Oct 29, 2014

NATO Intercepted 19 Russian Military Aircraft Today

By Allied Command Operations

NATO detected and monitored four groups of Russian military aircraft conducting significant military manoeuvers in European airspace over the Baltic Sea, North Sea/Atlantic Ocean, and Black Sea on 28 and 29 October 2014.

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In the News

Oct 29, 2014

Ricciardone on the US-Turkey Relationship

By Francis Ricciardone

The Washington Post quotes VP and Rafik Hariri Center Director Francis Ricciardone on how the crisis in Syria has affected the US-Turkish relationship:

Syria Turkey

In the News

Oct 26, 2014

Slavin on ISIS, Turkey, North Korea

By Barbara Slavin

South Asia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin joins Voice of America’s Issues in the News to discuss the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, Turkey, North Korea, Hong Kong, and other international news stories making headlines lately: 

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In the News

Oct 25, 2014

Ricciardone on US-Turkish Fight Against ISIS

By Francis Ricciardone

VP and Rafik Hariri Center Director Francis Ricciardone joins NPR Weekend Edition to discuss the US-Turkey alliance against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham: 

Turkey

New Atlanticist

Oct 22, 2014

Turkey Moves Toward Helping Syria’s Kurds—and Calming Its Own

By Sabine Freizer

Ankara’s Handling of Syrian War Has Revived Its Own Kurdish Conflict Turkey’s promise Monday to let Iraqi Kurdish guerrillas cross its border to defend the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani against the Islamist army of ISIS provides a rare sign of hope for saving Turkey’s moribund peace process with its own Kurds. Turkey’s refusal until […]

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NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow at the Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate

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Oct 20, 2014

Strengthening NATO-Gulf Cooperation

By Alexander Vershbow, NATO

NATO is playing its part too. We all stand with our Ally Turkey, which is literally on the front line. And while the air campaign is not a NATO operation, NATO Allies provide the bulk of the military assets that are now being deployed to degrade ISIL.

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New Atlanticist

Oct 15, 2014

The US Fight Against ISIS: An Exercise in Futility?

By James Rupert

Fred Hof: US Policy Needs a Ground Game, and Here Are Two Ways to Build It The US military has escalated air strikes against the Islamist militant ISIS fighters who have been closing in on the Syrian town of Kobani and the nearby Turkish border, in large part because the Syrian civil war is now […]

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Jeffrey Hovenier

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