the future of turkey: all articles

openDemocracy writers measure the benefits, costs, and consequences of Turkey's path to European Union membership.
Wednesday 14th October

The Armenia-Turkey process: don’t stop now

Kerem Oktem, 14 October 2009
The critics of the Yerevan-Ankara protocols neglect their potential benefits
Monday 12th October

Armenia and Turkey: forgetting genocide

Juan Gabriel Tokatlian, 12 October 2009
The Armenia-Turkey accord entails a pragmatic and dangerous silence over the events of 1915
Tuesday 6th October

Turkey's political-emotional transition

Carsten Wieland, 6 October 2009
Ankara is renegotiating its pro-west commitments and its Islamic family-ties
Thursday 17th September

Ergenekon: power and democracy in Turkey

Bill Park, 17 September 2009
The legal contest over an ultra-nationalist conspiracy in Turkey is about politics rather than justice
Friday 24th April

Turkey in transition: reality and image

Gunes Murat Tezcur, 24 April 2009
The very clash of interests dividing Turkey may be the route to its democratic deepening 
Sunday 19th April

Is Rasmussen the right man?

19 April 2009
NATO and the EU should have listened to Erdogan
Tuesday 17th March

Recep Tayyip Erdogan: the Mandela test

Hakan Altinay, 17 March 2009
Turkey's dangerous polarisation puts a special responsibility on its combative prime minister
Monday 26th January

Turkey-Israel relations after Gaza

26 January 2009
The Gaza horror faces Ankara's active regional diplomacy with a severe test
Monday 19th January

The water finds its crack: an Armenian in Turkey

Hrant Dink, 19 January 2009
The "Agos" editor killed in Istanbul on 19 January 2007 speaks for life and truth. Plus: Hratch Tchilingirian on Dink's background, and Fatma Müge Göçek on memory and hope
Monday 3rd November

Ergenekon: Turkey's military-political contest

Bill Park, 3 November 2008
The trial of agents of Turkey's “deep state” is making its military and its politicians nervous
Wednesday 29th October

Anatolian Muslimhood: humanising capitalism?

Max Farrar, 29 October 2008

An influential Turkish network fuses faith and modernity in search of a new social order

Wednesday 3rd September

Why the European Union strengthens Turkish secularism

Hakan Altinay and Kalypso Nicolaïdis, 3 September 2008
Turks should not give up on Europe - it's still an agent of progress. But a silence must end
Thursday 7th August

Ergenekon: Turkey’s “deep state” in the light

Bill Park, 7 August 2008
An elite conspiracy charged with destabilising the elected government brings Turkey to a dangerous moment
Wednesday 16th July

Europeanising Cyprus

Mient Jan Faber and Mary Kaldor, 16 July 2008
The search for a political solution to the Cyprus problem is at a delicate stage
Tuesday 17th June

Turkey's judicial-political crisis

Kirsty Hughes, 17 June 2008
Turkey's political fissures test its stability and put its orientation towards Europe in question
Tuesday 29th April

Turkey’s clash of values: memo to Europe

Cem Özdemir, 29 April 2008
The political and legal crisis in Turkey highlights a vital European interest
Tuesday 15th April

Turkey: the constitutional frontline

Katinka Barysch, 15 April 2008
A legal case against Turkey's ruling party reopens the country's secular-Islamist argument
Wednesday 2nd April

Turkey’s risk, Europe’s role

openDemocracy, 2 April 2008
A court hearing over the legality of Turkey's ruling party imperils the country's progress
Tuesday 4th March

Turkey’s “Islamic reform”: roots and reality

Mustafa Akyol, 4 March 2008
A group of theologians in Ankara is filtering early Islamic texts in light of modern reason...is this "reformation"?
Wednesday 27th February

Turkey and the Kurds: politics and military action

Hasan Turunc, 27 February 2008
Turkey's campaign against PKK militants in northern Iraq is linked to the "Kurdish question" at home
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