Steven A. Cook

@stevenacook

Steven A. Cook is Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East & Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. My own opinions. RTs not an endorsement.

Washington, DC
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Joined November 2010
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  1. 2 hours ago

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    My latest, with Dick Sokolsky, on the risks of, and impediments to, the Trump administration's proposal for an "Arab NATO." Arab NATO: An Idea Whose Time Has Not (and May Never)…
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  2. 5 hours ago

    's foreign minister wrote in USA Today that his country is "committed to being an ally." The Turkish government forced the United States to negotiate for a year to use Incirlik air base for direct combat operations against the Islamic State.

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  3. 18 hours ago

    's foreign minister wrote in USA Today that his country is "committed to being an ally." Here he is visiting two Turks who are in jail for beating up Americans who demonstrated against Pres Erdogan in Washington DC in May 2017.

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    21 hours ago

    Utterly impossible not to love this

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    22 hours ago

    Thanks to & for interviewing me on 's conflicts, the risks of national elections, and my book, "The Burning Shores"

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  6. 23 hours ago

    ICYMI: My piece on . There is not much to salvage. Washington and Ankara have different goals, priorities, interest, and values.

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    Aug 20

    The U.S.-Turkish relationship is in crisis and only seems to be getting worse. Join , , , , and on Wednesday at 10am for insight and analysis into the future of U.S.-Turkey diplomacy:

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  8. Aug 20

    A blessed Kurban Bayram to my Turkish friends....if I have any left.

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    Aug 19

    We wanted Turkey to be a partner. It was never going to work, writes

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    Aug 18

    I asked for his take on US-Turkey tensions: Watch the full interview on GPS this Sunday at 10a/1p ET on CNN

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    Aug 17

    Washington's 'get tough' policy with Turkey was long overdue, says . 'Unfortunately, the Trump administration has botched the job.'

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  12. Aug 17

    My latest ⁦⁩ on . You can’t “lose” something you never had...

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    Aug 16

    The letter from standing by and saying he too should have his clearance revoked could well be the closest we have come to a Joseph Welch “Have you left no sense of decency?” moment that in many ways broke the McCarthy fever.

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    Aug 16

    Turkey’s main opposition party’s presidential candidate in the June 24 elections criticised President Erdoğan for receiving a Jewish award

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    Aug 16

    Great discussion with and , moderated by at Gives a very good sense of both the issues at hand and the debates in Washington right now

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  16. Aug 16

    R-E-S-P-E-C-T...

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    Aug 15

    for true clarity; false dawn: about turkey, north of the middle east. which book explains cairo, unraveling. which compresses what you need to know into 360 pages. i can't say enough about 's immediacy.

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    Aug 15

    A textbook case of slippery lobbying & media complacence. Here's Matthew Bryza writing on Turkey in WaPo. Bio says Atlantic Council, NSC, State. He was also Amb. to Azerbaijan. So, very experienced and definitely worth listening to, right?

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    Aug 15

    Except, Bryza also lives in Istanbul where he "works as a business consultant and board member of several private companies." Does he disclose that in the op-ed in which he strongly defends the stale logic of the old U.S.-TR relationship? No.

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    Aug 15

    So educated readers would be forgiven for reading this and thinking, "Well, here's this seasoned U.S. foreign policy thinker who says we have it all wrong." Except he's not disclosing his private commercial--and possibly lobbying--interests.

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