Bloomberg this week reported that the open political warfare rocking Turkey, which has pitted the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) against followers of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, is endangering the country’s economy. The mounting power struggle between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the judiciary is turning the country’s stock market...

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The domestic upheaval rocking Turkey – which has now slipped into open political warfare between the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the powerful Islamist movement led by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, and which is threatening to bring down Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan – seems set to directly impact...

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Open political warfare between two powerful Turkish Islamist camps is shaking the country’s political institutions and will likely erode Ankara’s international posture, as the ruling Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) scrambles to uproot followers of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen who are in turn scattered throughout the country’s state and...

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An escalating political struggle between two dominant Islamist camps inside Turkey – which in recent days has rocked the country and now threatens to destabilize the ruling Justice and Development (AKP) government – has spilled over into the U.S.-Turkey relationship and generated a sharp rebuke from Washington regarding “continued false and slanderous attacks”...

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A corruption probe involving some of Turkey’s top figures has engulfed officials at a Turkish bank long linked to Iranian sanctions-busting schemes, adding a potential international dimension to a scandal that was already threatening to destabilize the country’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government. The probe has pitted rival Islamist camps against...

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday lashed out against a corruption probe that he described as a “dirty operation” designed to smear him and his Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) administration, a day after more than 50 people – drawn from the families of politicians and businessmen close to Erdogan...

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Turkey is preparing to exploit the reduction in Iran’s financial and diplomatic isolation, threatening to undermine Obama administration assertions that the relief granted to the Islamic republic under the recently announced Joint Plan of Action is “limited, temporary, targeted, and reversible.” Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense...

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Foreign Policy Magazine’s The Complex yesterday outlined legislative efforts, written by Congress into the upcoming National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), to respond to Turkey’s controversial decision to purchase missile defense assets from a Chinese company blacklisted by Washington. Turkey stunned U.S. officials in September when it reached a provisional deal worth up...

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English-language Turkish media reported yesterday that the country’s parliament, which the Daily News described as “dominated by deputies from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),” rejected an opposition-filed censure motion filed against AKP Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu over his role in generating the recent precipitous decline in Turkey’s regional stature. The motion cited...

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Turkish figures are scrambling to halt a slide in Ankara’s regional stature and in the domestic position of its ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, amid new polls showing declines in how people inside and outside Turkey view the country and the AKP. Hurriyet Daily News reported today that the percentage...

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