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Ömer Taşpınar

Ömer Taşpınar

Ömer Taşpınar is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor of national-security strategy at the National Defense University in Washington. He is the author of two books: “Political Islam and Kurdish Nationalism in Turkey” and “Winning Turkey: How America, Europe and Turkey can Revive a Fading Partnership” (with Philip Gordon). His research focuses on the Middle East, Europe, Muslim minorities in the West, radicalization and the global political economy. He is a frequent commentator for major Turkish, American, European and Middle Eastern news outlets.

An ISIS Comeback Is Increasingly Likely

In politics, as in life, the urgent always trumps the important. The urgent question about ISIS these days is the

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September 19, 2019 No Comments

Northern Syria and the Problem It Provokes in Turkish-American Relations

Decades from now, history books dissecting what went wrong in Turkish-American relations will dedicate a special chapter to Syria. Before

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August 25, 2019 No Comments

The Sultan and the Tsar: Turkey’s Flirtation with Russia Has a Long History

Anyone wanting to understand Ankara’s current military and political engagements with Moscow needs to pay attention to two factors: Turkey’s

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August 16, 2019 No Comments

It’s Time for Damage Control if Turkey’s Relationship with the US Is to Be Saved

Despite repeated warnings from Washington, Ankara has started receiving shipment of a Russian air defense system. All eyes now are

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July 21, 2019 No Comments

Erdogan’s Fumble in Istanbul Puts the 2023 Presidential Election in Play

One thing worse than losing an election is losing the same vote twice – and the second time around with

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June 29, 2019 No Comments

The ‘Chinese Model’ Distracts Turkish Admirers from the Absence of Democratic Governance

This month’s 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre is an opportunity to consider what the “Chinese model” has come

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June 19, 2019 No Comments

In the Istanbul Elections, Erdogan’s Alliance with the Deep State Defines Turkey’s Future

Most observers of Turkish politics understandably are obsessed with the political power that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accumulated over

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May 26, 2019 No Comments

Turkish Capitalism’s ‘Original Sin’ and Its Roots in the Armenian Genocide

When it comes to Turkey’s problem with democracy today, what happened to the Armenian and Greek populations of Anatolia a

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May 12, 2019 No Comments

Israel and Turkey Share the Same Pathology: the Meltdown of the Left

Recent elections in Turkey and Israel have proved once again that these two countries have much more in common than

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April 18, 2019 No Comments

Turkey’s Democracy Wakes Up as Erdogan’s Invincibility Wavers

The most fundamental question in Turkish politics – since the country entered an unprecedented phase of civilian autocracy after the

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April 4, 2019 No Comments

Turkey’s Purchase of Russian Missile-Defense System Will Be ‘Paradigm Shifting’ for its Relations with the US

Turkish-American relations often are fraught with drama followed by reconciliation. At the end, the two countries usually manage to save

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April 2, 2019 No Comments

An Obsession with Islam Blinds the West to Real Problems in the Middle East

From Donald Trump’s alarmist speech in 2017 in Poland, where he declared “every last inch of Western civilization is worth

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March 10, 2019 No Comments

Turkey’s Islamist Policy Remains Intact – After Accidentally Extraditing a Member of the Muslim Brotherhood

How should we interpret the fact that a member of the Muslim Brotherhood was recently extradited from Istanbul to Cairo?

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March 3, 2019 No Comments

What Erdogan’s ‘Turkish Gaullism’ Means to the Middle East and the West

Samuel Huntington still cast a long shadow over modern Turkey. And that is unfortunate. The late Harvard professor once characterized

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February 11, 2019 No Comments

Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Plan Pushes Turkey Closer to Russia

When Donald Trump declared last month that American forces in Syria would return home immediately, Turkey was one of the

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January 20, 2019 No Comments

America’s Troop Departure from Syria Can Improve Turkish-Kurdish Relations

Has America used the Kurds in Syria only now to dump them? Observers who believe in moral debt, rather than

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January 8, 2019 No Comments
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