Although China is currently setting the pace of the “great game” playing out in the Indo-Pacific, it still has a long way to go before it challenges U.S. regional supremacy, as Patrick Buchan from the Alliances and American Leadership Project writes in his commentary.

In virtually all his comments since July 9, Erdogan has emphasized the imperative of making government function more efficiently and rapidly in line with the requirements of “New Turkey.”

Especially because of the current economic downturn, this election could possibly mark the beginning of a major political transition, which Erdogan will find very difficult to accept.

On May 2, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejoined the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he had established in August 2001 and then led for 13 years during which he won three successive elections and served as a very strong and effective prime minister. He had...

Turkish voters are heading to the polls for parliamentary elections on November 1 for the second time in five months. The reason behind the ‘repeat elections’ – as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been calling them – is his strong desire to...

No matter how the final negotiations come out around August 20, a number of very central conceptions and policies were critically wounded during the dramatic, months-long bailout confrontation between the Greek government and its major creditors (the troika of the...

On July 9 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan finally asked the Justice and Development Party (AKP) leader Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to try to form a new government. The long 33 day gap between the June 7 elections, in which the AKP failed to retain its parliamentary...