On March 19, Ekrem Imamoglu—the mayor of Istanbul and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival—was detained by police in a dawn raid; he was later formally charged with corruption ...
It is hard to pinpoint exactly when Recep Tayyip Erdogan slipped from the supreme self-confidence of successful politicians to narcissistic hubris. It might have been after the Arab uprisings in ...
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro is set to be inaugurated for a third term amid anti-government protests, Brazil cracks down on forced ...
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has come full circle and then some on Syria. At the dawn of the Erdogan era, Turkey’s then-prime minister was Bashar al Assad’s patron—once even ...
Over the past week, the future of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has been placed squarely into question. A coalition of armed opposition factions has gone on the offensive in northern Syria, ...
Embattled South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law on Tuesday in an extraordinary attempt to consolidate his power. But after South Korea’s National Assembly unanimously voted to reject the ...
Over the last few weeks, colleagues, bosses, mentors, and friends from high school have asked me some version of the question “What’s up with Mohammed bin Salman?” On Nov. 11 ...
Georgians are in the streets fighting for their democracy. The Georgian Dream party, which is working to align Tbilisi with Moscow’s interests, declared victory in the country’s Oct. 26 election ...
In May, pro-independence demonstrations spread across New Caledonia, a small Pacific island territory that has been ruled by France since 1853. Waving the flags of the Indigenous Kanak people as ...
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