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How long will Erdoğan go on?

Istanbul

Middle East

How long will Erdoğan go on?

‘Democracy is not our goal but our vehicle to get there,’ Erdoğan once said as mayor of Istanbul

Daniel Thorpe

What Turkey has to celebrate on its centenary

Life for Turks would have turned out far worse if the Great Powers had succeeded in imposing the settlement they intended for the Ottomans’ Anatolian heartlands

Jeremy Seal

The secret to exploring Istanbul

You don’t have to spend a lot to eat well there

Poppy Greenwood

Walking to Byzantium

The lines that now smudge my map look more like the flight of a woozy bluebottle than the traces of a man with a plan

Henry Hopwood-Phillips

Diary

Petronella Wyatt: my food fights with Boris

My ex Boris Johnson has Turkish blood, of which he has often boasted. It seems to have come to the fore

Petronella Wyatt

Faith
July 31, 2020
The sunset of secular Turkey
Let’s not pretend that Turkey wants to be a Western nation with Western values
William S. Smith
Middle East
July 15, 2020
There is no justification for turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque
Turkey is jeopardizing freedom of worship
Michael Nazir-Ali
Middle East
July 15, 2020
Erdogan, Hagia Sophia and the rebirth of an Islamic Turkey
In the eyes of many Turks, the modern west has rejected modern Turkey,
David Patrikarakos
Books
July 11, 2019
Washed up in Istanbul
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak reviewed
Zoë Apostolides
Middle East
May 23, 2019
The day Turkish democracy died
‘I built up a really nice business over 10 years and then they came in like gangsters and took it all away’
Justin Marozzi

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