Turkey

  • Jan 2, 2018
  • 2 min read

Greece will resist Turkish pressure on extradition

Greece may have wobbled on sheltering soldiers fleeing the Turkish coup’s aftermath but will not cave in

Greece
  • Dec 29, 2017
  • 2 min read

Turkish-US tensions persist despite visa resumption

Differing accounts spoil ending of US-Turkish mutual suspension of visa services

Turkey
  • Dec 28, 2017
  • 2 min read

Foreign policy pronouncements put Erdogan centre-stage

Projecting Erdogan as world player outranks policy consistency in latest pronouncements on foreign issues

Turkey
  • Dec 27, 2017
  • 2 min read

Brexit will be too specific to serve Turkey or Ukraine

The United Kingdom is about to become a non-member on the EU periphery but little else links it to Turkey or Ukraine

EU
  • Dec 22, 2017
  • 7 min read

Damascus can choose to deal with Ankara or the Kurds

While Russia and the Syrian government plan a constitutional dialogue, Kurds are already pushing ahead with elections

Syria
  • Dec 22, 2017
  • 6 min read

Normalisation threatens Emerging Europe’s bond markets

Risk premia on Emerging Europe’s corporate bonds have returned to post-crisis levels

Europe
  • Dec 22, 2017
  • 2 min read

Abu Dhabi-Ankara row heralds regional polarisation

A febrile Twitter-based argument about Ottoman actions in Medina in 1916 highlights deeper divisions

United Arab Emirates
  • Dec 18, 2017
  • 7 min read

Doubts about Turkish national accounts data may linger

A new national accounts series has produced some surprising data, but deliberate government falsification is unlikely

Turkey