Distrustful of a Republican foreign policy establishment that undermined him in his first term, Trump sourced a cohort of second-term staff from previously marginalized Libertarians and anti-interventionists. The problem? They don’t agree with him on policy.
After two decades of manic-depressive relations, Erdogan wants to give the Jewish state another spin
After 40 years in Israel, Nesim Bencoya returned to his once-cosmopolitan hometown in Turkey to save its hidden synagogues
The French president’s war of words with Erdoğan is more than just political theater. It’s part of a larger campaign to crack NATO that should alarm the United States.
Turkey’s authoritarian president poses an active danger to Western interests. He must be contained.
Disagreement over the future of Kurdish forces in Syria reveals the differences in the U.S. and Israeli approaches to Turkey and the broader Middle East
When the media turns everything into Russiagate, anyone can be guilty
As America withdraws from Northern Syria, finding hope and inspiration in the courage of female fighters
Caroline Fourest’s ‘Sisters in Arms’ arrives just in time for the Ottoman Anschluss against Syrian Kurdistan
Kurdistani Jews are caught between the Jewish state and the ethnonationalist ambitions of its Middle Eastern neighbors
While attention is focused on the Saudi government’s gruesome attack on dissident Jamal Khashoggi, Turkey targets one of its own journalists
Bookworm: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar wrote what could have been edited into one of the great novels of the 20th century
A century after the start of a bloody persecution, will a genocide come to be recognized for what it was?
Why the United States’ inexplicable abandonment of the Kurdish people is ‘the geopolitical equivalent of a stock-market crash’
Shamefully, the Turkish president has made Turkey less of a refuge for Jews than it once was
A 17th-century ‘holy apostasy’: like Christ’s crucifixion, the fulfillment of a messianic prophecy?
As in the late 1950s, common enemies may make strange bedfellows, or even friends, of Erdogan and Netanyahu
If you want to boycott Israel but not Erdogan’s dictatorship, there’s an old and useful term that might describe you well
