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16 May 2015

As Turkey prepares to head to the polls next month, Monocle’s Steve Bloomfield asks if this is the moment the country could change - and not for the better. Featuring author and political commentator Ece Temelkuran, Mustafa…

4 October 2014

Monocle foreign editor Steve Bloomfield presents a special discussion from Istanbul on the state of Turkey today as reforms at home continue to stall and the battle against Isis militants rages in neighbouring Syria.

29 April 2016

It might not be immediately apparent but the Turkish government has launched a charm offensive. Ties with the EU remain strained over German satire aimed at the president but Turkish diplomats are quietly patching things…

20 January 2017

There’s a pressing bit of business left in the in-tray at the Oval Office: should the US directly arm Kurdish forces in its assault on Isis-held Raqqa? It’s a question that President Trump will need to mull over carefully…

9 September 2016

Turkey is exercising its right to push radical new rulings through parliament under its current state of emergency: this week prime minister Binali Yildirim decreed that Turkey has “abolished the winter-summer time diffe…

3 May 2016

Relations between Turkey and Germany have seen far better days. Just weeks after comedian Jan Böhmermann raised hackles in Ankara with a borderline-racist poem about president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, another German satirist…