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Bill Park

Bill Park is Visiting Research Fellow in the Defence Studies Department, King’s College, London. He serves as a council member for the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA), is an editorial board member for the journal Mediterranean Politics, sits on the international advisory panel for the journal Turkish Studies, and is an advisor to the Centre for Turkish Studies (CEFTUS). He was Visiting Scholar at TOBB-ET University in Ankara January-April 2016. Among his publications are his book ‘Modern Turkey: People, State and Foreign Policy in a Globalized World’, published by Routledge in 2012 and numerous journal articles and blogs. He is frequently consulted on Turkish politics by government departments, parliamentary committees and others, and has also been used by various media outlets as a Turkey expert.

YET ANOTHER TURKISH DIVE INTO SYRIA’S DEEP WATERS?

Bill Park
14/12/2018
On 12 December Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkish forces would within days launch an offensive aimed at clearing northern Syria east of the Euphrates from separatist terrorists eg... Read More...

Turkey’s Idlib adventure; will it end in tears?

Bill Park
03/12/2018
As this piece was being penned, Turkey, Iran and Russia were winding up their eleventh high level meeting on Syria in Astana, Kazakhstan. They reiterated their commitment to a ceasefire in Idlib and to i... Read More...

Can the US-Turkey relationship survive Erdogan and Trump?

Bill Park
09/08/2018
How much disagreement, tension and even mutual hostility can an alliance relationship take? Having failed to release the evangelical American pastor Andrew Brunson from prison on 18 July 2018 during a court... Read More...

TURKEY’S ELECTIONS: WHAT HAPPENED, WHY IT HAPPENED, AND WHAT WE CAN LEARN

Bill Park
04/07/2018
The vote and some counter-factuals With 52.6% of the vote, on 24 June President Erdogan was re-elected without needing a second round run-off. His chief rival, Muharrem Ince of the social democratic wing of ... Read More...

ERDOGAN COMES TO LONDON; EUROPE’S TROUBLED OUTLIERS OFFER MUTUAL COMFORT

Bill Park
29/05/2018
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s three-day visit to London in mid-May was billed by the British prime minister’s office as ‘an opportunity for the UK and Turkey to demonstrate our close bilateral relati... Read More...

Turkey’s Return to Authoritarianism

Bill Park
09/05/2018
The AKP’s false dawn The Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, or AKP) government that came to power in Turkey November 2002 enjoyed an auspicious start. It lent its support to the U... Read More...

[OPINION] TURKEY-KRG RELATIONS AFTER THE 25 SEPTEMBER REFERENDUM; DIVORCE OR RESET?

Bill Park
06/04/2018
Few were surprised that the independence referendum held in the Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRI) on 25 September 2017 produced a 93% ‘yes’ vote. But many have been surprised by the subsequent turn of events in the ... Read More...

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