The Middle East

Undergoing a major transformation over the past decade, the Turkish economy is now the world’s 15th largest and the sixth largest in Europe, according to 2011 World Bank figures for GDP at purchasing power parity (PPP). The country has an estimated population of 74.7m, giving it the second-largest internal market in Europe, after Germany. Bordering...

Perhaps nothing has been more symbolic of the transformation in Turkish society over the past few years than the string of indictments the country’s courts have recently been issuing against senior military figures. The country is in the thick of a major, public reassessment and reform of the relationship between its soldiers and civilians – and...

The US and Turkey have been NATO allies since 1952, and our economic and military relationships are flourishing. Trade between the two countries grew by 45% in 2011 alone, to the benefit of both the American and the Turkish people. In June of 2009 President Barack Obama announced our intent to deepen ties between American entrepreneurs and their...

Turkey is in a unique economic position and is significantly more prosperous than it was a decade ago. This is due, in large part, to our party’s efforts to create a reliable, stable and predictable political and economic environment. Since late 2002 – except during the peak of the recent global financial crisis in 2009 – the Turkish economy has...

With its thriving economy, democratic system and moderately Islamist leadership, in recent years, Turkey has been frequently put forward as a role model for other nations in the Islamic world. This has been helped by growing soft power, evident in everything from the popularity of Turkish soap operas in Egypt to the ubiquity of Turkish goods in Iraq...