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Turkey Bans Twitter
The U.S. Should Unfollow Turkey

Erdoğan might have stopped Turks from tweeting, but he should no longer be able to keep American leaders from voicing their views of his increasing authoritarianism. It’s time for the White House to speak up.

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From Rhetoric to Realism
US Needs to Get Real on Troubled Turkey

The U.S.-Turkish relationship has come to be defined by a rhetoric of mutual admiration that obscures the tensions created by Ankara’s increasingly sectarian and authoritarian domestic politics. For the United States, honesty about America’s differences with Turkey would be the better policy.

Restocking the Toolkit

Proposals for beefing up the non-kinetic side of U.S. statecraft.

The Turkish Portfolio

U.S. policy toward Turkey must navigate a compound dislocation.

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