As Iran Declines, Turkey Advances

Ankara is leveraging Tehran’s weakening position to extend its reach across the Fertile Crescent and beyond.

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For all the attention paid to the conflict in Iran, the broader changes in the Middle East have gone largely ignored, particularly with regard to Turkey. Egyptian Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Ashraf Salem Zaher arrived in Ankara on July 12 at the head of a high-level delegation for talks on expanding bilateral military cooperation. The […]

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Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst (2015-2018) with Geopolitical Futures. A strategic forecaster, Dr. Bokhari is now a Senior Resident Fellow with the Middle East Policy Council and a Senior Director at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington, DC. Bokhari also teaches Eurasian Geopolitics at Georgetown University's Security Studies Program. Previously, has served as the Coordinator for Central Asia Studies at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @Kamran Bokhari