All Policy Analysis by Soner Cagaptay

This summer, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party continued its decade of electoral dominance, winning a third consecutive parliamentary victory. Yet the voting results tell a more nuanced story, with the main opposition Republican People's Party making gains in key areas and the AKP's heartland strongholds continuing to lose sway

Turkey, Iran, and the Assad regime are locked in a power game over Syria's future: either Ankara will win and Assad will fall, or Tehran will win and Ankara, hurt by PKK attacks, will throw in the towel and let Syria be.

Although Turkey and Israel are not yet ready to become friends, they do not need each other as enemies: talking to one another would serve them both well.

Washington must prevent renewed PKK attacks from becoming either a wedge between Turkey and Iraq or a bridge between Ankara and Tehran.

Turkey's latest earthquake could be the beginning of the end for the PKK's appeal among Kurds in the southeast, to the benefit of other players.

Turkey's sustained economic growth since 2002 has cast Ankara as the dominant power in its neighborhood.

Ankara and Tehran appear locked, once again, in their centuries-old competition to become the region's dominant power.

Turks judge the world through the prism of the PKK.

The downward spiral in Turkish-Israeli relations is not only an irreversible trend, but also a lose-lose situation for both sides.

Turkey and Israel are at dangerously opposing ends of Levantine politics, and conflict may be looming.

Soner Cagaptay and Ata Akiner examine the political and military implications of Turkey's new order since the military resignations of July 2011.

For the past decade, a military vs. AKP dichotomy has shaped most analysis on Turkey, but a new framework seems necessary now.

Like Ataturk, Erdogan has a vision and controls all levers of power. Time will tell how far he is able to shape Turkey in his conservative design.

Unless conditions in Syria somehow magically revert to normalcy, Turkey will likely lead the international community in taking a tougher line against the brutal crackdown.

The internet provides the medium through which political freedoms are accessible to all for the first time in human history.