Attacking Syria Is a No-Win Situation for Turkey
Negotiating with the various factions in Syria would infuse Turkey with national pride and international prestige.
Negotiating with the various factions in Syria would infuse Turkey with national pride and international prestige.
Iran can no longer count on its partners in the developing world in its standoff with the West.
Turkey and Iran don’t see eye to eye on Syria. But their mutual interests in other arenas temper their disagreements.
The Turkish F-4 that Syria shot down was testing Syria’s radar.
At this point, President Assad is beginning to seem self-destructive.
The West’s sanctions on Iran are hurting the country’s middle class and marginalizing the country’s pragmatists. But they can neither cripple Iran’s economy nor halt its nuclear program.
Resolving longstanding disputes between Muslims and non-Muslims requires an understanding of the different cultural approaches to conflict resolution.
Turkey and Syria are no longer BFFs.
The Arab Spring may have started in early 2011, but its origins link directly to the non-violent, society-wide mobilization that transformed Palestine’s national struggle beginning in the late 1980s.
With the Arab uprisings reconfiguring the regional political landscape, the time has come for America to regain the trust and goodwill of the Islamic world. The clock is ticking fast.
September turned out to be nothing short of a political tsunami for Israel’s leaders and, consequently, for the United States as well.
Turkey is winning friends and influencing the Middle East, but its Dale Carnegie approach doesn’t extend to Israel.
As the greatest beneficiary of the Arab Spring, Turkey is going head to head with both Syria and Israel.
As DC’s powerful debate the debt crisis, one aspect of our spending is completely absent from the debate: war spending.
International attention to Turkey’s recent election reflects Ankara’s rising role not only in the Arab Spring but as a newly powerful democracy with broad regional influence.