Labour must accept – and understand – the referendum, Keir Starmer tells Richard Angell and Conor Pope While the vote...
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Turkey Articles
We Are Arrested
Can is an educated, middle-class professional, living in a European country, who has, by any reasonable interpretation...
Turkey, Iraq and the possibility of ‘regional war’
Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi has said that Turkey’s decision to maintain its troop presence in Iraq could lead...
A democracy without democrats
Prior to this year's failed coup, Turkey’s most recent coup took place in 1997 and was known as a postmodern or ‘soft’...
In search of the ‘New Turkey’
Two years ago, in the build-up to the country’s presidential elections, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke of creating a ‘New...
Vote Leave have no genuine answers on immigration
As expected, the issue of immigration has now been fully weaponised by the Brexiters. It is a missile that Labour...
Hope for Turkey
Erdogan needs to go —Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was once reported as saying that democracy for him was...
Erdogan’s descent
I was recently in Istanbul having been invited to speak at a conference organised by the Republican People's party...
The Kurdish renaissance
Twenty-two years ago, many thousands of Iraqi Kurds fled to the mountains to escape the wrath of Saddam Hussein. Some...
All quiet on the Turkish front?
It’s all gone quiet in Turkey. Actually, it hasn’t – only in the western media. After what were largely peaceful,...
Let’s talk
Visitors to the West Wing are greeted by a series of 'jumbos' – giant photos of Barack Obama's latest events and...
Laying the ghost of Saddam to rest
Gary Kent supported the intervention in Iraq. Ten years on, he looks again at the war and its legacy for the Iraqi...