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Normative Costs of Normalizing Al-Assad
Recent efforts to rehabilitate al-Assad will set a damaging precedent for accountability, just as the international community has expressed the need to hold Russia to account for similar human rights violations in Ukraine - Burcu Ozcelik for Carnegie Endowment.
Charting a New Direction: Turkey and Israel Normalise Ties
Despite pundits racing to ring the death knell for Israel-Turkey relations, it was never a foregone conclusion that the strategic relationship was over - Burcu Ozcelik for Manara Magazine.
Turkey’s Standoff With NATO Isn’t Over Yet
Finland and Sweden's NATO memberships have gone through for now, but Turkey’s standoff with NATO isn’t over yet as Burcu Ozcelik explains in Syndication Bureau.
Overcoming hurdles to Turkish–Israeli reconciliation
Burcu Ozcelik explains in IISS how longstanding grievances between Turkey and Israel will complicate the pace of progress in mending their relations, but as Israel engages in pragmatic diplomacy with other Middle Eastern allies, it now controls the pace of normalisation with Ankara.
Turkey eyes opportunity for geopolitical realignment in Ukraine crisis
Burcu Ozcelik, writing for IISS, explains how Turkey sees an opportunity to claim a role as mediator in the Russia-Ukraine conflict in a wider reckoning over the shape of the post-Cold War global order.