Op-Ed Publications

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2017. "A Series of Miscalculations: The Kurdish Referendum and Its Fallout," in IPI Global Observatory, December 19 (with former student Katie Klain).
2017. "Hitting Erdogan Where It Hurts, Not Where It Helps," in War on the Rocks, 3 November (with Blaise Misztal)



2017. "Global Support for Turkey Thrown Further into Question," IPI Global Observatory, 24 May (with former student Asya Sağnak).
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2017. "Turkey's President Erdogan Has Gone to Extremes to Win Sunday's Referendum. Here's Why," in The Washington Post (Monkey Cage blog), 14 April (with former student Melina Dunham).
2017. "Burden or Boon? Turkey's Tactical Treatment of the Syrian Refugee Crisis," The Middle East Institute, 17 January (with former student Caroline Feehan).
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2016. "Turkey's Post-Putsch Purge," in The Boston Globe, 28 July.


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2016. "The Dark Side of the Popular Mobilization that Stopped Turkey's Coup Attempt," in The Washington Post (Monkey Cage blog), 21 July.


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2016. "The Real Refugee Crisis is in the Middle East, Not Europe," (with Rawan Arar and Kelsey P. Norman), in The Washington Post (The Monkey Cage blog), 14 May.


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2015. "The Heinous Consequences of Turkey's Polarization," in The Washington Post (The Monkey Cage blog), 15 October.


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2014. "No Opposition, No Democracy in Turkey's Elections," in The Washington Post (The Monkey Cage blog), 3 April.


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2013. "The Might of the Pen(guin) in Turkey's Protests," in Foreign Policy, 10 June.


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2011. "Reading Turkish Politics from a Soap Opera," in Foreign Policy, 7 December.