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Is the Key to Russia’s Victory Hidden in Ensuring Air Superiority in Ukrainian Airspace? 

A Brief History of the Tensions in Ukraine and Russia In 1994, Ukraine agreed to accede to the...
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Can Strengthening Relations with NATO Encourage Democracy in Turkey

This paper suggests that strengthening relations with NATO can help prevent Turkey from severing its increasingly tenuous...
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The Influence of Erdogan’s Neo-Ottomanist Ambitions on the Current HDP Situation in Turkey

Recep Tayyip Erdogan — Turkey's current president (elected 2014) and former prime minister (2003-2014) — infamously once...
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Rethinking the Value of Turkey in NATO and Hulusi Akar

With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Turkey's place in NATO has become even more critical in parallel with...
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Turkey: Westerner in word, anti-Western in deed

The “West,” precisely the European Union and NATO, but many “non-aligned” western countries as well, are currently...
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Encouraging Turkish Democracy by Removing the PKK from the Terrorism Lists

Removing or delisting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) from official government terrorism lists would be a bold,...
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Can Turkey’s Syria Policy be Successful?

Syria is currently party to a series of non-international and international armed conflicts. Since 2011, Syria has...
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Ukraine’s Echoes in Bosnia

For anyone who lived through the horrors of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) in the...
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