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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

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

‏حكم بالسجن على ناشطة نسوية بتهم الإرهاب يجدد الجدل بشأن حديث السعودية عن الإصلاح. تقول السلطات السعودية إن مناهل العتيبي وهي أيضا مدربة لياقة بدنية ومؤثرة على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي حُكم عليها بالسجن 11 عاما "لثبوت إدانتها بارتكاب جرائم إرهابية"، بينما أدانت منظمتا العفو الدولي ...  Show more

<div dir="ltr"> On October 2, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, seeking to retrieve some marriage documents relating to his upcoming wedding.  He never came out. Turkish authorities believe he was tortured and murdered by Saudi intellig ...  Show more

The Saudis launch covert influence operations on U.S. soil. Just weeks after the 2016 election, Saudi lobbyists arrange to fly hundreds of American veterans to Washington — and put them up at Trump hotel — ostensibly to lobby against already enacted legislation to allow the famil ...  Show more

The Turkish government has told U.S. officials that they have audio and video recordings to support their conclusion that Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.