Dilek Kurban on Turkey, the Kurdish question and the ECHR

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Sinem Adar on Turkey's role in a fracturing Western alliance

Sinem Adar, head of the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, on Turkey's international profile and domestic political trajectory after its recent hosting of the NATO summit in Ankara. Please support Turkey Book Talk on ...  Show more

Hannah Lucinda Smith on Turkey, Russia and Europe's hinterlands

Hannah Lucinda Smith on “Hinterlands: Journeys through Europe’s Unfinished Frontiers” (Profile Books). The book shows how Eastern Europe, the East Mediterranean and the Caucasus are becoming geopolitical hotspots as revisionist powers like Russia and Turkey look to secure a great ...  Show more

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