Middle East scholar Arzu Yilmaz says limits of Turkish military activity in Iraq are mostly set by Iran

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Turkey's outsize influence in Somalia fuels corruption and autocracy, says MEI's Gonul Tol

Somalia is home to Turkey’s largest overseas military base. It has signed an oil exploration and production deal with Ankara that has sparked protests from the opposition. The Middle East Institute’s Gonul Tol unpacks the drivers of Turkey’s Africa policy, noting that Turkish eng ...  Show more

Don’t blame the PKK for all the Kurds’ losses in Syria, says Kurdish expert Aliza Marcus

Kurds in northeast Syria have suffered significant territorial and political setbacks, while Kurds in Turkey continue to lack meaningful rights. A growing number of Kurdish voices are blaming the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and its imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan for what the ...  Show more

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On Monday August 29th, Iraq came closer to civil war than it has for year. The fears of many Iraqis that political tensions would spill out into violence were coming true.

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