Turkey's president is confirmed once more as the master of Turkish politics. Now he faces his greatest challenge.
A stunning election result against many odds is a resounding statement of Turkey's democratic credentials.
April 1915 saw the start of the genocide against Armenians and other minorities in the former Ottoman Empire. Erdoğan hopes he can ignore the anniversary and it will go away—while Armenian politics is stuck in victim mode.
The latest crackdown on journalists in Turkey is another twist in the spiral into authoritarianism of a state bereft of an effective political opposition—with 'Putinisation' an increasingly realistic description.
With Kurds in Iraq and Syria under attack from the Islamic State, many young Kurds in Europe have been joining resistance forces—a trend occluded by the media focus on European-born jihadists.
The US wants Turkey to join the military effort against Islamic State at Kurdish-dominated Kobane, across the Syrian border—but Ankara’s focus is the Kurds within its own.
The law of unintended effects is in evidence as the rise of Islamic State threatens a potential resolution of Turkey's Kurdish question.
