Bill Park is a senior lecturer in the department of defence studies at Kings College London. He is currently conducting a longer-term study of the three way relationship between Turkey, the United States and the Kurdish Regional Government in Northern Iraq. His books include Turkey's Policy Towards Northern Iraq: Problems and Prospects (Routledge, 2005), and Modern Turkey: People, State and Foreign Policy in a Globalized World (Routledge, 2011)
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Published in: HomeTurkey’s election: voting to revisit the past?Expect more Turkish turbulence and drama to come, and for Turkish politics to once again resemble the years preceding 2002.
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Published in: HomeTurkey has elections, but not democracyWhatever shortcomings today’s Turkey has, they cannot all be pinned on AKP rule. But democracy and governance are...
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Published in: HomeTurkey and the Islamic State crisis: everyone's non-ally?The military success of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq intensifies questions over Turkey's strategy and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMosul, Maliki and ISIS: the view today from Erbil
It is surely not overly pessimistic to anticipate tension between Kurd and Sunni Arab in the months and years to...
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Published in: HomeTurkey's struggle: Erdoğan vs Gülen
A series of escalating crises in Turkey is reshaping political alliance and enmities. It also casts a shadow over...
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Published in: HomeTurkey’s Kurdish policy: sleepwalking to crisis
A mix of inheritance, repression and strategic vacuity is pulling Turkey's leadership into a long-term Kurdish...