By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Since Ankara launched its offensive against the YPG on January 20 there have been many developments in the battle between Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A lot of people have read Jared Yates Sexton’s tweets about getting death threats after he outed a Reddit user who made a gif about Trump […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In the last week of June 2017 rumors began to spread of increased tensions on the Turkish border with Kurdish-run areas in Afrin. A small province, […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Just after noon on May 29th the Hashd al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), a mostly Shia group of militias that have been officially part of […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I was reading a major US media outlet about Turkey’s president visiting Washington and there was a link to the “free for all” in Syria. “The […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On August 24th Syrian rebel groups and the Turkish army rolled across the border into Jarabulus in an operation dubbed “Euphrates Shield.” The operation was aimed […]
Below is an article from a trip to Turkey in December of 2014. During our trip we met with high level Turkish officials in the two main parties as well […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Recent breaking news has revealed that Turkey has a limited number of troops in northern Iraq. What they are doing there, how long they have been […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN For more than a year Turkey’s ruling President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been looking to re-write the country’s constitution and cement the AKP’s grip on power. […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN (Written for The Jerusalem Post, hence the concentration in parts on Israeli tourism) Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is everywhere. A post display in Istanbul throughout the city […]
