... the University of Washington. He would like to thank Resat Kasaba, Selim Kuru, Scott Radnitz, Wolfram Latsch, and Alex Segall for their advice and help during the writing process. Copyright 2014 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2014 Dogan versus Erdogan: Business and Politics in AKP-­Era Turkey...

... to the concept of civilizational incompetence to read Turkish contemporary affairs. In that regard, the hybridization of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's regime, which strengthens republican power at the same time as it captures and instrumentalizes Ottoman glamour, can be perceived as a symptom of civilizational...

... system has been transformed into a political tool to manipulate youth and mold them into cadres of a peculiar Islamist ideology supported by the Recep Tayyip Erdogan regime. This essay discusses four sets of educational tools that have been redesigned to enable Erdogan and his entourage to shape...

...Ahmet T. Kuru Why did Turkish policies toward Syria and Egypt in 2011–15 largely fail? At the individual level, the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan was plagued by populism in the sense that he uses foreign policy issues for the sake of domestic party politics without pursuing long-term...

... and xenophobia were “rampant” in Hungary and appeared to have support across the political spectrum.14 The NATO member that has exhibited the most pervasive and alarming tendencies, however, is Turkey. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has con- ducted high-­profile prosecutions of military leaders...

...Kadir Akyuz; Steve Hess This essay examines the impact of Turkey’s growing international links to China, Russia, and other non-Western powers on democratic backsliding by the administration of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The essay finds that China’s and Russia’s growing engagement with Turkey since...

... policies toward the development of national- ism, capitalism, and state formation in Kurdistan-Iraq and Iraq from the 30 January 2005 national assembly elections in Iraq to Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan’s meeting with President George W. Bush on 8 June 2005. I also note the 30 January...

... importance of relations between Kurds and Turkey occurred in early January when Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan declared that Iraq, not the “European project,” was the most important issue of this government.2 Given the simmering differences between 1. I have addressed this topic in Robert...

...Constantine A. Pagedas From the Editor Constantine A. Pagedas Since becoming prime minister in 2003 and then president in 2014, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has steered Turkey through a period of extensive and impor- tant political and economic change. Overall, Turkey’s economic rise has been...

... Recep Tayyip Erdogan embraced the Annan Plan in 2004 as a means to get his country’s accession talks with the EU opened. He saw a way, encouraged by US president George W. Bush, to get on the right side of an issue that had been a losing proposition for decades. Erdogan likely also judged...

... to mark the implementa- tion of a 2009 agreement to hold regular senior Turkish-­Russian intergovern- mental consultations. Turkey has institutionalized such high-­level meetings with Iraq and Syria, and Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suc- cessfully secured Putin’s approval...

... whether to invade northern Iraq will depend on exactly how Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan chooses to respond to that pressure. Copyright 2008 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2008 Philip Giraldi is a former CIA counterterrorism officer who served in Europe and the Middle East. He...

... be characterized as paying the political what belongs to it. This right of the political has been neglected by politi- cians themselves, because the established paradigms have not forced them to be creative and risk unintended consequences of any political action. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

...Nikos Christofis The essay shows how Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) and, most importantly, the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, use the concept of Yeni Turkiye (New Turkey) in attempts to construct a new national state tradition, a counterhegemonic narrative to replace...

...Murat Akser The relationship between Turkish media conglomerates and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has shown increased conflict since 2009. The AKP, under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has displayed increasing fear of and suspicion toward Turkey's liberal media...

... third consecutive parliamentary election victory in 2011, the party has become bolder in its Islamic agenda and rhetoric. In 2012, then prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked, “Do you expect from us, as a political party with a ‘conservative democrat’ identity, to cultivate an atheist genera...

... president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This plan met with significant criticism from opposition parties out of concern that Erdogan would be given unfettered powers to cement traditional Islam in modern Turkish society and push the Turkish Republic even further away from its secular roots. Many...

... (at that time) toward Turkey’s efforts to join the European Union in 2005.26 (This chimera evaporated, and Turkey’s European ambitions have since been in the deep freeze.) George Papandreou succeeded in establishing a good relationship with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who visited Greece...

... supportive of the country’s quest to join the European community of nations. Toward this end, the election of Recep Tayyip Erdogan as prime minister and his effort to end the dual power system that has afflicted modern Turkey are to be Donald M. Payne, Democrat from New Jersey, is a member...