Gareth Jenkins is a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Joint Center's Silk Road Studies Program, and a regular contributor to its biweekly Turkey Analyst. He is a writer and analyst based in Istanbul, Turkey, where he has been resident since 1989. During his first ten years in Turkey, he worked as a journalist for international wire services, newspapers and periodicals, covering a broad range of political, economic and social issues related to Turkey and the surrounding region. In recent years he has focused primarily on analysis, contributing numerous articles, reviews and commentaries to scholarly journals and edited volumes and delivering presentations at seminars and conferences. His special fields of interest are civil-military relations, terrorism and security issues, and political Islam.

Publications

Books and Monographs

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

Gareth Jenkins, Turkey and Northern Iraq: An Overview, Jamestown Foundation, February 2008.

Gareth Jenkins, Political Islam in Turkey: Running West, Heading East? (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Gareth Jenkins, Context and Circumstance: The Turkish Military and Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

Journal Articles

Gareth H. Jenkins, "Ergenekon, Sledgehammer, and the Politics of Turkish Justice: Conspiracies and Coincidences",  MERIA Journal, vol. 15 no. 2, June 2011. 

Gareth Jenkins, "Continuity and Change: Prospects for Civil-Military Relations in Turkey", International Affairs, vol 83 no. 2, 2007.

Gareth Jenkins, "Muslim Democrats in Turkey?", Survival, vol. 45 no. 1, 2003.



Recent Turkey Analyst Articles

Gareth H. Jenkins, "The Changing Object of Fear: The Arrest of Ilker Basbug", Turkey Analyst, 9 January 2011. 

Gareth H. Jenkins, "Tactical Allies and Strategic Rivals: Turkey's Changing Relations with Iran", Turkey Analyst, 5 December 2011.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "The Latest KCK Arrests: One Step Closer To Breaking Point", Turkey Analyst, 7 November 2011.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "Turkey's New Constitution: A Last Chance to Solve the Kurdish Issue?", Turkey Analyst, 10 October 2011.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "Turkish-Israeli Relations: Empty Threats or a Looming Crisis?", Turkey Analyst, 12 September 2011.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "Beyond Memory and Imagination: Civil-Military Relations and Turkey's New Authoritarianism", Turkey Analyst, 15 August 2011.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "Fading Hopes, Rising Demands: Kurdish Problem Moves Closer to the Point of No Return", Turkey Analyst, 27 June 2011.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "Above the Threshold, Below the Belt: The Video Campaign Against the MHP", Turkey Analyst, 30 May 2011.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "The AKP's Election Manifesto: The Silences that Ring Alarm Bells", Turkey Analyst, 2 May 2011.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "The Fading Masquerade: Ergenekon and the Politics of Justice In Turkey", Turkey Analyst, 4 April 2011.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "Squaring the Circle: the PKK Return to Violence and Turkey’s Intractable Kurdish Problem", Turkey Analyst, 7 March 2011.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "From Politicization to Monopolization: The AKP's New Judicial Reforms", Turkey Analyst, 7 February 2011.


Gareth H. Jenkins, "Turkey and the EU: The Disappearing Vision", Turkey Analyst, 10 January 2011.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "The AKP’s Cold War: Towards A Final Reckoning Between Erdogan And Gül?", Turkey Analyst, 6 December 2010.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "Changing of the Guard: Judicial Reforms Reinforce Concerns about the AKP’s Increasing Authoritarianism", Turkey Analyst, 8 November 2010.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "Turkey's New "Deep State": A Movement Without a Mover", Turkey Analyst, 15 September 2010.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "The Devil in the Detail: Turkey's Ergenekon Investigation Enters Its Fourth Year", Turkey Analyst, 5 July 2010.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "Turkey Joins Brazil in Gambit to Avert Iran Sanctions", Turkey Analyst, 25 May 2010.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "Turkey Bucks the International Trend with a Rise of Anti-Americanism", Turkey Analyst, 26 April 2010.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "Turkey's Constitutional Amendments: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back", Turkey Analyst, 29 March 2010.
 
Gareth H. Jenkins, "Waiting for Basbug: The Aftermath of the Sledgehammer Operation Detentions", Turkey Analyst, 1 March 2010.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "Is Time Running Out on Cyprus Reunification?", Turkey Analyst, 1 February 2010.

Gareth H. Jenkins, "After the DTP Closure: From Dialogue to Monologue?", Turkey Analyst, 21 December 2009.

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

Gareth H. Jenkins,"Turkey's "Kurdish Opening" Faces New Challenges", Turkey Analyst, 26 October 2009.

Gareth Jenkins, “Turkey and Israel: The End of the Affair?”, Al Ahram Weekly, 15-21 October, 2009.

Gareth H. Jenkins, “Third Ergenekon Indictment Reinforces Concerns about Turkish Judicial System”, Turkey Analyst, Vol. 2 No. 17, 28 September 2009.

Gareth Jenkins, “Turkey and the EU: How to Save the Day Before December”, Turkey Analyst, Vol. 2 No. 15, 31 August 2009.

Gareth Jenkins, “Turkey’s Islamists And Secularists Go To War Over ‘A Slip Of Paper’”, Jane’s Foreign Report, July 2009.

Gareth Jenkins, “Cyprus: An Unending Impasse?” World Political Review, June 2009.

Gareth Jenkins, “PKK: Breaking the Stalemate”, ISN Security Watch, 26 May 2009.

Gareth Jenkins, “Washing The Wrong Dirty Linen: Turkey’s AKP Suffers Its First Electoral Setback”, Jane’s Foreign Report, April 2009.

Gareth Jenkins, “Local Election Results Suggest Turkey’s Ruling AKP Is Losing Electoral Momentum”, World Political Review, April 2009.

Gareth Jenkins, “Turkey: AKP Pays the Price”, ISN Security Watch, 1 April 2009.

Gareth Jenkins, “Turkish Jihadis Go Online”, Jane’s Terrorism and Security Monitor, March 2009

Gareth Jenkins, “Government Pride and Populism Threaten to deepen Recession in Turkey”,  Turkey Analyst, Vol. 2 No. 5, 13March 2009.

Gareth Jenkins, “Turkey and the Middle East”, ISN Security Watch, 16 February 2009.

Gareth Jenkins, “The Politics Of Personality: Erdogan’s Irascible Authoritarianism”, Turkey Analyst Vol. 2 No. 3, 13 February 2009.

Gareth Jenkins, “Strategic Posture Review: Turkey braces for an uncertain future”, World Political Review, February 2009.

Gareth Jenkins, “Turquia y Armenia: entre la historia y la geografia”, Vanguardia, 30 Enero 2009.

Gareth Jenkins, “Turkey: 'Deep State' conspiracy”, ISN Security Watch, 27 Jan 2009.