Turkey

Bad Blood in Baku

The angry ally Obama can't afford to lose.

BY THOMAS GOLTZ | JUNE 11, 2010

How Turkey Tamed Its Army

Fifty years after the country's most infamous military coup, Turkey finally appears to be strenghening its democratic institutions.

BY ALI ASLAN | MAY 28, 2010

Turkey's Zero-Problems Foreign Policy

The Turkish government this week brokered an 11th-hour nuclear fuel swap deal with Iran. Turkey's foreign minister explains the principles that made it possible.

BY AHMET DAVUTOGLU | MAY 20, 2010

Turkey Takes Sides

Criticism of Israel is the hallmark of Prime Minister Erdogan's new Middle East policy -- but not all Turks are on board.

BY TULIN DALOGLU | APRIL 16, 2010

Stuck in 1915

How Turkey and Armenia blew their big chance at peace.

BY THOMAS DE WAAL | APRIL 15, 2010

How Turkey Manufactured a Coup Plot

The case of Çetin Doğan, a prominent Turkish Army general accused of conspiring against the government, suggests an ominous future for the country's democracy.

BY PINAR DOĞAN, DANI RODRIK | APRIL 6, 2010

Is Turkey Trying to Sink or Save Iran?

Ankara's emboldened stance on Iran is spooking some in the West. But is the country's newfound independence just for show?

BY DAVID KENNER | APRIL 1, 2010

The Ottoman Revival

Turkish nationalism goes back to the future.

BY YIGAL SCHLEIFER | APRIL 15, 2009

The Hypocrisy Audit

Double standards have always been a part of U.S. foreign policy. It's time to figure out how many should no longer be tolerated.

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | AUGUST 13, 2008

The World’s Top 20 Public Intellectuals

In our last issue, we named the world's top 100 public intellectuals and asked readers to vote for those they deem most deserving of the top honors. Now, 500,000 votes later, we reveal the results of the reader poll. Plus, members of the Top 100 name the intellectuals they believe should have made the list.

JUNE 16, 2008

Boomtowns

The housing bubble may have burst in the United States and Western Europe. But, in cities around the world, irrational exuberance in the residential market lives on.

APRIL 10, 2008

The Gathering Storm

BY SOLI ÖZEL | JULY 1, 2005

Bridging the Bosphorus

Turkey's decades-long desire to join Europe has prompted vast political reforms, and its negotiations for European Union membership are finally under way. Mensur Akgün, foreign-policy director of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation in Istanbul and associate professor at the Istanbul Kultur University, discussed the literary backdrop for Turkey's changing times with FP.

BY VERENA RINGLER | MAY 5, 2005