Erdoğan's Turkey & the Revival of the Ottoman...

In Episode 502 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jim Bianco, founder of Bianco Research and Bianco Advisors, about why he has turned bullish on bonds after six years of warning they were overvalued, what the K-shaped economy and the dominance of AI-related stocks mean ...  Show more

In Episode 501 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Rana Foroohar about her book, Sea Change, and her argument that, as polar ice melts and new sea routes open, the Arctic has become the most consequential and least understood geopolitical theater in the world, with the ...  Show more

This week on Babel, Jon Alterman talks with Ambassador James Jeffrey, who recently finished serving as the Secretary of State's special representative for Syria engagement and as the special envoy to defeat ISIS. Ambassador Jeffrey talked about Turkey's Middle East policy, how to ...  Show more

President Erdogan’s time in power has been a fascinating period for Turkey - at once nodding to the liberal West, while simultaneously winking at the more Conservative East. It’s his country in a nutshell, and his policies in economics, social welfare, secularisation and his rela ...  Show more

Gideon Rachman talks to academic and writer Sinan Ulgen about Turkey’s foreign policy under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, focusing on the controversial decision to turn Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum back into a mosque and the rationale behind Turkish military interventions ...

Of all the countries playing a part in the Ukraine crisis, Turkey is perhaps the most difficult to read. A NATO member and supplying drones to Ukraine, but at the same time thwarting Sweden and Finland’s attempts to join the alliance, and hosting Russia's foreign minister Sergey ...  Show more