A dilemma for Washington is that whenever the United States pushes for elections in the Middle East and Muslim countries, Islamist parties often perform well, even better than liberal, nationalist,

Turkey continued to pressure Egypt into making travel between the two nations easier. On Thursday, Turkish Culture & Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay said again that Turkey and Egypt should remove

Turkey’ impresses not only for its flourishing democracy and its growing regional leadership role. It is addressing tough historical issues: establishing relations with Armenia, the Kurds, and the Greek Cypriots,

Turkey will find a very receptive audience among Arabs and Muslims all over the world who are desperate for a powerful and sensible leadership to defend and champion their causes.

Manuela Paraipan: What are your thoughts on the agreements signed by Turkey with Iraq, Iran, Syria and Armenia? Dr. Kerem Oktem: In the last year, Turkey has indeed signed a

Under Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s leadership, Turkey’s three dimensional “Strategic Depth” foreign policy doctrine has emerged as the blueprint to reposition Turkey as a regional power. Sharing borders with Syria,

Khalil al-Anani’s recentish article on the young reformists of the Muslim Brotherhood, and particularly the desire, expressed in the article and elsewhere,

Turkish Prime Minister Recip Erdogan is in Washington, D.C. for meetings with American officials and a number of public and private appearances along the DC circuit.

One way and another, a resurgent Turkey is rewriting the rules of the power game in the Middle East, in a positive and non-confrontational manner. This is one of the