Gareth Jenkins is a Senior Associate Fellow with the Joint Center's Silk Road Studies Program and Turkey Initiative. 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, Political Islam in Turkey: Running West, Heading East? (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

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

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

Journal Articles

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

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

Recent Articles

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.