Turkey’s recent local elections were a repudiation of the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) stewardship of the economy. Voters also rejected “Erdoganism” – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman expansionist agenda that spawned foreign adventurism and alienated Turkey from the United States. Instead of making hard decisions to fix the economy, Erdogan blamed the United States […]
Author Archives: David L Phillips
David L Phillips is director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He was a senior adviser to the US State Department working on US-Turkey relations in the 1990s and 2000s. He authored An Uncertain Ally: Turkey under Erdogan’s Dictatorship. His most recent book is The Great Betrayal: How America Abandoned the Kurds and Lost the Middle East.