Testing Turkey
By: Soner Cagaptay / Foreign Affairs For all the talk of Turkey’s “zero problems with neighbors,” no amount of soft power has been able to protect the country from the protracted civil war in Syria. Now over two years old, that conflict has laid bare Ankara’s inability to match Tehran’s influence in the region — or even to secure itself against violence as the conflict has spilled over its borders. After years of trying to go it alone in the Middle East, Turkey’s leaders and…
The Washington Institute publishes "The New Turkey and U.S. policy"
Soner Çağaptay of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy offers insight into the trends shaping Turkey’s policies today and highlights what this means for the future U.S. Turkey relations in a new strategic report titled “The New Turkey and U.S. policy.”