Erdogan: 'No one should expect me to provoke ISIS' - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Semih Idiz

Semih Idiz

Jun 27, 2014

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of the parliament of his ruling AK Party (AKP) during a meeting at the Turkish Parliament in Ankara on June 24, 2014. AFP PHOTO/ADEM ALTAN (Photo credit should read ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images) — Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of the parliament of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Ankara, June 24, 2014. — ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images

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NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) and Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu attend a news conference in Ankara June 16, 2014. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3U04T

Turkey rethinking sectarian approach to region

Semih Idiz

Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani (centre, R) meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (centre, L) at the presidential palace in Arbil, the capital of northern Iraq's Kurdistan autonomous region, June 24, 2014. Kerry was in Iraqi Kurdistan on Tuesday to urge its leaders not to withdraw from the political process in Baghdad after their forces took control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk. Peshmerga fighters, the security forces of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish north, seized control o

Does Turkey still support a unified Iraq?

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) shakes hands with Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu during their meeting at Ciragan Palace in Istanbul April 7, 2013. Kerry said on Sunday it was not up to Washington to set a deadline for Turkey and Israel to normalise ties but stressed the importance of restoring a full relationship between the two. REUTERS/Hakan Goktepe/Pool (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS) - RTXYBQF

US Tries to Reconcile Ankara and Baghdad

Semih Idiz

Masked Sunni gunmen pose for a photo during a patrol outside the city of Falluja April 28, 2014. Iraqi soldiers say they have been trapped in and around the western city of Ramadi. They say they have run low on tank shells, lack aerial cover and armoured vehicles, and have been hit by high casualties and desertion rates. In March and April, ISIL seized a dam in Fallujah, flooded farmland on the outskirts of Baghdad in Abu Ghraib, and drained offshoots of the Euphrates river; the Iraqi government evacuated t

Turkey: ISIS magnifies Iraq's Sunni crisis

Rasim Ozan Kutahyali

Rasim Ozan Kutahyali