Karabekir Akkoyunlu is a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics, where he researches political change in Turkey and Iran. His latest work is <em>The Western Condition: Turkey, the US and the EU in the New Middle East</em>, which he co-authored with Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Kerem Öktem.

Erdoğan’s Syrian Quandary

[caption id="attachment_55238161" align="alignnone" width="620"] Syrian refugees gathered as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (not…

Driven to Distraction

[caption id="attachment_55241390" align="alignnone" width="620"] People stand in a building damaged in the twin car bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey…