Are China, Russia, and Turkey locked in a battle for control over Central Asia, historic Turkestan? Are there prospects for one – or any...

Turkish President Erdoğan - the Informal Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood: "The Sunni Gulf Arabs - i.e., the UAE et al - do Not Have the...

The US imposing sanctions on Iran. The existential battle between Shiite Iran vs Sunni Saudi Arabia. The Armenian-Azeri War and more...

In the past, foreign conflicts have helped the regime in Tehran distract the public. But could this conflict provoke in Iranian Azeris a fee

While some fear the breakdown of the PA, Israel should promote the end of the so that a new generation can take over.

Turkey is spending millions of dollars a year to gain influence on the Temple Mount in coordination with a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood

Dr. Harold Rhode studied in Iran at Ferdowsi University in Mashhad in 1978 during the early and middle stages of the Islamic Revolution....

By Harold Rhode, Clare Lopez, Christopher Hull, Daniel Pipes, David Goldman, Burak Bekdil, Uzay Bulut and Deborah Weiss “Whither Turkey?”...

The first long study on the Jews in Turkey was written by the late American scholar Stanford Shaw---born Stanley Shapiro, a well known...

Major political events have rocked the political scene in Turkey the past two weeks. Turkey's once seemingly-invincible prime minister,...

Why couldn't Egypt's deposed President Morsi admit mistakes? Why couldn't he "compromise" with the military and stay in power? And what...

Turkey, although nominally part of the West, is in most ways culturally closer to the Middle East. Turks live with pent-up grievances --...

Watching the Syrians kill each other, one can get the impression from the media that there are two sides—the Assad regime and “the...

By Harold Rhode and Dan Diker Syria’s fragmentation along religious and ethnic lines exposes the apparent rupture of what has been known...

Would we name our children Warrior, Conqueror, Sword, or Holy War? These are the meanings of personal names commonly used in the Muslim...

Events in Turkey indicate that much of the Turkish public increasingly believes that their Prime Minister blundered by unnecessarily...

With the end of the Cold War, a new enemy emerged, Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, made up of Islamic extremists, terrorists and the...

Erdogan's recent electoral victory speech puts his true intentions regarding Turkey's foreign policy goals in perspective. He said that...

The Sunni-Shiite Divide Iranian Shiites and Turkish Sunnis are engaged today in a huge battle to capture the hearts and minds of the Arab...

The Middle East has its own logic: people there believe that the US is all-powerful, and when it chooses to, enforces order as it sees...