Just days before Turkey’s main opposition party was set to select its next presidential candidate, the leading contender, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, was arrested and jailed, effectively removing ...

President Donald Trump’s administration dialed up its use of military power in the Middle East this past week just as it took ...

In response to the request for information (RFI) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Office of Science and ...

After decades of managing tensions through careful balancing, Turkey and Iran now find themselves increasingly at odds ...

The United States dramatically stepped up its military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen, initiating heavy bombing and ...

Reflections on a recent visit to Baghdad. Much has changed and ordinary life has resumed in Iraq's capital, but deep ...

In recent days, Syria suffered the worst violence since the toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad last December. Deadly ...

While most media attention was focused on its global economic policy moves, the Trump administration continued to keep the ...

The Maximal Miniatures exhibition, a curated collection on display at MEI’s gallery until May 23, 2025, is interested in the ways in which contemporary artists have reinvented the Persian miniature ...

Assoc. Prof. Murat Somer and Prof. Dr. Kemal Kirişci discussed a recent AKP initiative known as the Kurdish Opening which aims to solve the Kurdish issue in Turkey. These two scholars provided an ...