To stem the spread of COVID-19, Turkey is releasing 90,000 prison inmates. Not on the list for release: tens of thousands of academics, journalists and others the regime sees as political threats.
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A few years ago, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Turkey’s Gulenists were running the show. Now both religious movements face political repression. How did they fall so far, so fast?
Almost one-third of countries around the world are authoritarian regimes with the trappings of democracy. Their bad behavior poses a threat to real democracies, as the United States recently learned.
How a once trustworthy NATO ally, an aspiring EU candidate and an emerging power came to be ruled by one strong man.
Turkey is recovering from a failed coup, not a war, but it could learn from the practice of post-conflict reconstruction.
The protests that helped end the attempted coup turned into an affirmation of Turkish democracy. Can it help resolve the Kurdish crisis?
It may sound farfetched that a scholar living in Pennsylvania planned the overthrow of the Turkish government. But Turkey is demanding the U.S. extradite the Hizmet leader.
Quick measures by the central bank prevented a financial crisis, but investors are worried. Longer-term economic effects will depend on how long Erdogan’s purge goes on.
The Turkish government is accusing the Gülen movement of being behind the recent coup attempt, but there are reasons to doubt the claim.
Turkish higher education has got used to repression, but this is on another scale.
President Erdoğan has described the failed coup as a ‘gift from god’. And we can expect him to make the most of it.
Alp Ozerdem reports from Turkey on a violent, thwarted attempt to take over the country by force. It was a bizarre night of botched announcements and presidential Facetime calls.
Followers of the Gulen movement are trying to foster community cohesion.
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Dean of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University
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Professor of Political Science, Director of Center for Islamic & Arabic Studies, San Diego State University
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
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Professorial Lecturer, American University School of International Service
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