It’s been about a week and a half since thousands of Turkish citizens went to the streets to protest the increasingly authoritarian government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Commentators in the United States and around the world took the …
How Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities inspired PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan’s intellectual conversion.
Nick Danforth: History Lessons at the New York Times
Nick Danforth: Shut Up About Neo-Ottomanism Already
It doesn’t take an expert to realize that the current breakdown in Turkish-Israeli relations will likely prove bad for Turkey; bad for Israel; bad for America; and, ultimately, like so much else, bad for the Palestinians. Still, one need not …