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Aykan Erdemir

Aykan Erdemir

Aykan Erdemir, a former member of the Turkish parliament, is the senior director of the Turkey Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He tweets @aykan_erdemir.

Erdogan hopes to salvage relations with the Gulf to save Turkey’s economy

In a bid to shore up Turkey’s flailing economy and rescue its nosediving currency, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Doha on Monday in the hope that his Qatari allies can provide......

 Turkey’s leak of Istanbul killing shows unlikely marriage with Iran under strain

Senior Turkish officials last week implicated two Iranian diplomats for instigating the November 2019 assassination of Iranian dissident Masoud Molavi Vardanjani in Istanbul. Until recently, Turkish......

 Turkey’s Syria campaign serves Erdogan’s electoral ambitions

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presents his latest cross-border operation into northeast Syria as a move against “oppressors and terrorists.” He also claims that he “targets......