Dr. Gene Callahan noticed that Niall Ferguson’s dire warning of the rise of a neo-Ottoman Empire is not based on any real evidence. Ferguson wrote the column in the wake of the AKP’s ...
Over the past decade, Ankara has pursued a policy often described as “neo-Ottomanism,” a term that encapsulates its ambition to reclaim influence over territories once governed by the Ottoman Empire.
Turkish pundits imagined a neo-Ottoman Middle East map in which ... were defined after World War I and the demise of the Ottoman Empire, Mr. Erdogan asserted that Aleppo, Damascus, Idlib, and ...
Turkey has carved out a new role for itself as the successor to the Ottoman Empire. Whether neo-Ottomanism represents a viable framework for regional stability or a new form of imperialism remains ...