The Turkey Initiative of the Joint Center was launched in 2006. The main aim of the Initiative is to function as a nexus for expertise, knowledge and information on Turkish politics, society, and foreign relations. For more information please see the Turkey Initiative Mission Section.


NEW SILK ROAD PAPER:
Between Fact and Fantasy: Turkey's Ergenekon Investigation, by Gareth H. Jenkins, August 2009.


Recent Analyses in the Turkey Analyst:

Hüseyin Bağcı, "Not Yet Lost: Turkey's Foreign Policy and the West", 7 December 2009.

Rafis Abazov, "Demographics Account for Turkey's Growing Clout", 7 December 2009.

Halil M. Karaveli, "The AKP, Seeking to Reinvent Turkey, is Forced to Tread Carefully", 23 November 2009

Gareth Jenkins, "Defense against Documents: The Turkish Military's Rearguard Action", 23 November 2009.

Joris Gjata, " Turkey and the IMF: What Delays the Deal?", 9 November 2009.

Halil M. Karaveli and M. K. Kaya, "Islamic Conservative and Nationalist Views on Jews and Israel: Another Convergence of Perceptions?", 9 November 2009


Recent Publications

Gareth Jenkins, Between Fact and Fantasy: Turkey's Ergenekon Investigation, Silk Road Paper, August 2009.

Halil M. Karaveli, "Obama Tackles Islam's Role in Society", Real Clear World, 10 April 2009/ Jerusalem Post, 19 April 2009.

Svante E. Cornell, "Turkey's Drift Away from the West", Jersualem Post, 14 January 2009.

Svante E. Cornell and Halil Magnus Karaveli, Prospects for a 'Torn' Turkey: A Secular and Unitary Future?, Silk Road Paper, October 2008.

Michael Jonsson and Svante E. Cornell, "Examining PKK Financing", Jane's Intelligence Review, March 2008.

Volkan Özdemir, "Turkey's Role in European Energy Security", in Svante Cornell and Niklas Nilsson, eds., Europe's Energy Security: Gazprom's Dominance and Caspian Supply Alternatives, Stockholm & Washington: CACI & SRSP Joint Center, 2008.

Svante E. Cornell and Kemal Kaya, "Turkey's Elections: Democratic Islamists?", SAISPHERE, December 2007.

H. M. Karaveli, "But A New Form of Kemalism would Make a Better Friend", Europe's World, Autumn 2007.

Kemal Kaya, "Turkey", in S. Frederick Starr, ed., The New Silk Roads:Transport and Trade in Greater Central Asia, Stockholm & Washington: CACI & SRSP Joint Center, 2007.

Zeyno Baran, "Don't Misread Turkey's Generals", Testimony to the U.S. Senate, 30 April 2007.

Svante Cornell & Per Häggström, "EU kan driva bort Turkiet" [EU could alienate Turkey], Uppsala Nya Tidning, 18 December 2006.

Svante E. Cornell, Anna Jonsson, Niklas Nilsson and Per Häggström, The Wider Black Sea Region: An Emerging Hub in European Security, CACI & SRSP Silk Road Paper, December 2006. (120 pp)

For more publications please see our Publications section

Activities

April 1
Svante Cornell, "Keeping Turkey in the West", presentation to SAIS Advisory Council, Washington DC.

November 19, 2007
CACI Forum "Does Turkey Have a Future in Central Asia and the Caucasus?" with Zeyno Baran and Svante Cornell. Summary now online.

June 7, 2007
Turkey Forum in Stockholm on Turkey's role in European Energy Security, Prof. Mustafa Aydin, TOBB University

May 15, 2007
Turkey Forum in Stockholm on Terrorism in Turkey, Prof. Ali Caglar, Hacettepe University

May 10, 2007
Turkey Forum in Stockholm on the political developments in the Turkish presidential elections.

December 2006
Svante Cornell, "Turkey and the West", Presentation to Zbigniew Brzezinski's Monthly Current Affairs Luncheon, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, 11 December 2006.

For recent events please see our activities section

The Turkey Initiative publishes the biweekly Turkey Analyst. The Turkey Analyst publishes analysis and news digests on Turkish domestic and foreign affairs, in an accessible and up-to-date format. It aspires to provide nuanced analysis of the complex and rapidly evolving Turkish scene. The publication's content is freely available online, and each issue can be downloaded in PDF format for easy viewing and printing.

Staff:

Svante E. Cornell
Director

Gareth Jenkins
Nonresident Senior Fellow

Halil Magnus Karaveli
Senior Fellow, Managing Editor

Dr. M. Kemal Kaya
Nonresident Senior Fellow

Zeyno Baran
Senior Advisor

Amb. Ann Dismorr
Senior Advisor