Erdogan’s Enver Pasha Dream: The Revival of the “Army of Islam” (By Yeghia Tashjian)

Erdogan’s Enver Pasha Dream: The Revival of the “Army of Islam” (By Yeghia Tashjian)

On July 10, 1918, the Ottoman Minister of War, Enver Pasha, ordered the formation of the “Islamic Army of the Caucasus” in order to repel the Armenian forces in South Caucasus, unite all the Turkic nations in the region under the banner of

Turkish Foreign Policy Under the AKP Rule: The Limited Role of Turkey in Lebanon (By Joe Hammoura)

Turkish Foreign Policy Under the AKP Rule: The Limited Role of Turkey in Lebanon (By Joe Hammoura)

ABSTRACT During the last decade, Turkish foreign policy exhibited a heightened interest in the Middle East thereby inaugurating a sharp departure from a long foreign policy tradition which relegated the region to the backwater. The conspicuous examples of this shift are Turkey’s keen