Naval Postgraduate School
Prospects for Greek-Turkish relations in 2024
Over a year ago there were concerns that Turkey's provocations and threats in the Aegean could turn into conflict. Over the last year, Turkey's President Erdogan has pulled a 180 degree shift in policy, de-escalating tensions.
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Turkey’s centenary: Has Erdogan eclipsed Ataturk?
Ryan Gingeras, a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and an expert on Turkish, Balkan, and Middle East history, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss Turkey's centenary and its broader implications, both within and outside Turkey.
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Purges have weakened once mighty Turkish military
A very interesting article about what Erdogan’s extreme crackdown policy has done to his armed forces.
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INTERVIEW: Historian Ryan Gingeras on Atatürk as 'heir to the Ottoman Empire'
The legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is still bitterly contested in today's Turkey. Approaching the centenary of the republic's establishment, the process of Westernization, secularization and modernization led by Turkey's nationalist founding father still provides the reference against which various political movements - whether sympathetic or antagonistic - define themselves.
'State-criminal relations in Turkey go back to Ottoman era'
Organized crime and narcotics smuggling in Turkey are analogous to the role of oil in countries like Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan, Professor Ryan Gingeras tells the Hürriyet Daily News, discussing his new book ?Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey?