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Expert briefing
Publication date: 19 October 2015

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany is "ready to offer support" on four Turkish demands in return for cooperating with the EU in the migrant crisis. At a joint press…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 4 September 2020

However, it has sometimes combined a very confrontational public relationship, including public attacks on an international institution, with a much more cooperative private…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 9 June 2022

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeated his threat of May 23 to invade Syria to "complete" a 30-kilometre-deep ‘safe zone’ and push Kurdish groups away from the border…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 18 October 2016

Turkey's attempts to expand its military role in both Iraq and Syria are entangled with major shifts in its relations with the United States and Russia, and in its overall…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 28 February 2022

Simultaneous presidential and parliamentary elections are due by mid-2023 at the latest. Opinion polls suggest that support for Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party are…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 1 December 2016

Turkey's relations with NATO.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 10 July 2020

Rising tensions over the conflict in Libya have produced a severe crisis in French-Turkish ties and threaten to exacerbate strains in Ankara’s relations with the EU. By placing…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 7 October 2015

Confrontations between Russian and Turkish fighter jets along the Turkish-Syrian border -- which triggered strong expressions of support for Turkey from NATO and the EU -- have…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 26 February 2020

Over the last two months, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has deployed Turkish military resources to Libya and the Syrian governorate of Idlib in an attempt to prevent Ankara’s…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 30 May 2023

The presidential and parliamentary elections held this month will define Turkey’s trajectory over the next five years and possibly even longer.

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