Barçin Yinanç

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Debate: Turkey can still play an active role in the Middle East

While it does partially reflect the truth, the notion that Turkey’s zero problems with its neighbors has turned into zero good relations with any neighbor has become a boring cliché. Indeed, there is a stark difference between the popularity Turkey enjoyed in both the East and the West over the past

Gülenists’ Changing Fortunes

At the NATO headquarters in Brussels, a Turkish diplomat greeted a passing delegation in his mother tongue. “They are Albanian diplomats. They are the F type,” he told me. By “F type,” he meant that they were graduates of the schools in Albania run by followers of Fethullah Gülen, Turkey’s most infl