Via Zoom
After 17 years of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) ruling in Turkey, the country is now involved militarily in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and the eastern Mediterranean. Meanwhile Erdogan is seeking more intervention in Yemen, Lebanon, and Somalia. Under President Erdogan, Turkey has also supported non-state actors such Hamas in Palestine and the Musilm Brotherhood in Qatar. At the same time, Turkey is facing a dire economic crisis, authoritarianism, and an unsolved Kurdish question.
Is the expansionism policy Erdogan’s or Turkey’s? Is it in Turkey’s national interest in the long term? What are the positions of Turkey’s institutions and the opposition parties on expansionism? Should it continue post Erdogan? Can the Turkish opposition build up alliances and unite to defeat the AKP in 2023? Would the Kurds be kingmakers again? And more questions were directed to our distinguished speakers during the discussion.
Wednesday, September 23 at 11:00 am EST
Speakers:
Alan Makovsky– Senior fellow for National Security and International Policy at American Progress
Gallia Lindenstrauss– Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies
Moderator: Yousif Ismael- Washington Kurdish Institute
