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Articles of the author David Barchard
Turkey's Syrian gamble
A new chapter has opened in Turkey's military operations in Syria and Iraq. It is one whose long-term outcome is very difficult to predict, but which poses a formidable challenge to the Kurdish enclaves of northern Syria and perhaps also to the US (...)

11 - 05 - 2017
Erdogan's narrow victory
After weeks of uncertainty the Turkish public opinion polls predicting a small margin of victory for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey's constitutional referendum earlier this month turned out to be correct. Just under 48 (...)

27 - 04 - 2017
Erdogan and Putin: The odd couple
The summit meeting held earlier this month between Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan would ordinarily have provoked a shower of media coverage. Held in a glittering state room in the Kremlin in Moscow, the two (...)

23 - 03 - 2017
Where does Turkey go from here?
Following Turkey's failed military coup of 15 July, the government plans a complete restructuring of the country's armed forces and intelligence services with wide-ranging implications both for the immediate region and the strategic balance between (...)

16 - 08 - 2016
Turkey's state of emergency carries risks
The Turkish government's decision to introduce a state of emergency is a prudent and fairly predictable response to the situation it finds itself in. Around 240 people were killed and the government was nearly overthrown by a coup last week that (...)

27 - 07 - 2016
Turkey's rapprochement with Israel
Turkey and Israel have agreed to bury their differences after a bitter dispute froze relations between the two countries for six years. Normal diplomatic relations, including ambassadors in each other's capitals, have now been restored. Given the (...)

12 - 07 - 2016
Commentary: The fall of Davutoglu
Seldom has any political leader anywhere suffered such an extraordinary swing in his fortunes in a single day. Last Wednesday morning, Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's prime minister, learnt that his stubborn bargaining with the European Union over an (...)

10 - 05 - 2016
Behind the AKP victory
After elections, money markets are sometimes the best political barometers. On Monday, the Turkish lira leapt by three per cent against the US dollar. A new period of single-party rule is beginning in Turkey after five months of uncertainty and (...)

04 - 11 - 2015
From friends to potential enemies
Russia's intervention in Syria, which began in the final days of September, may have overturned the chessboard in one of the most delicate but till now skillfully managed economic and political relationships in Europe. Though Russia seems to have (...)

21 - 10 - 2015
Punishing the Gulenists
By any standards, it was a humiliating moment for a senior agency of any government. On 19 January, a column of trucks travelling through Turkey's southern province of Adana was stopped by the gendarmerie and forced to reveal the cargo they were (...)

27 - 05 - 2015
Turkey's Marxist guerrillas
In gruesome scenes in Istanbul's central courthouse at Caglayan on 31 March, two Marxist-Leninist militants from the DHKP-C, the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party and Front, held a terrified prosecutor prisoner captive and gagged. They posed (...)

08 - 04 - 2015
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