An Uncertain Ally

An Uncertain Ally
Author :
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 219
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781351623940
ISBN-13 : 135162394X
Rating : 4/5 (94X Downloads)

Book Synopsis An Uncertain Ally by : David L. Phillips

Download or read book An Uncertain Ally written by David L. Phillips and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey has descended into a dictatorship, promotes the Islamist agenda, abuses human rights, limits freedom of expression in the press, and wages war against the Kurds. While Turkey has historically been important geopolitically, it has become an outlier in Europe and an uncertain ally of the United States. An Uncertain Ally is a straightforward indictment of Erdogan. Drawing on inside sources in his Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the police, the book reveals corruption and money laundering schemes that benefitted Erdogan, his cronies, and family members. Erdogan has polarized Turkish society and created conditions that led to the coup attempt of July 2016. He has also deepened divisions by accusing Fethullah Gulen, an Islamic teacher in Pennsylvania, of establishing a parallel state and masterminding the coup attempt. Erdogan has seized on the failed coup to justify a witch hunt, arresting thousands and ordering the wholesale dismissal of alleged coup sympathizers. Rather than foster reconciliation, he pursued vendettas and turned Turkey into a gulag. An Uncertain Ally exposes Turkey’s ties to jihadists in Syria and the Islamic State, questioning its suitability as a NATO member. Under Erdogan, Turkey faces a dark future that poses a danger to the region and internationally.


An Uncertain Ally Related Books

An Uncertain Ally
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: David L. Phillips
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-23 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Under the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey has descended into a dictatorship, promotes the Islamist agenda, abuses human rights, limits freedom of expression
Erdogan's Empire
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Soner Cagaptay
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-19 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Gradually since 2003, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power -- in the tradition of past Turkish leaders from t
Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Fikret Adaman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The 'neoliberal' economic policy of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP Party, which has delivered extraordinary growth in Turkish GDP over the last decade, ha
Why Turkey is Authoritarian
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Halil Karaveli
Categories: Authoritarianism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Left Book Club

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A radical history of Turkey, from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the present day, rejecting traditional narratives of a 'clash of civilisations'
The New Sultan
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Soner Çaǧaptay
Categories: Turkey
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the e