Aaron Stein

@aaronstein1

Senior Resident Fellow ; Author, Turkey's New Foreign Policy: . Contributing editor at War on the Rocks.

DC - Istanbul - Bursa
turkeywonk.wordpress.com
Joined June 2009
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    18 hours ago

    I guess Raytheon can stop advertising the Deep Strike missile system as a 499km range system

    The U.S. is going to tell Russia that it is leaving a landmark nuclear treaty
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  2. 19 hours ago

    Stupid is too kind a word for this.

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  3. 19 hours ago

    My latest for :: Murder in Istanbul and the Turkish Saudi Rivalry

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  4. 23 hours ago

    Financing, Financing, Financing. Please start asking how many of Russia MOUs to build nuclear power plans actually result in, well, nuclear power plants being built.

    Vladimir Putin has this week discussed plans to build Egypt and Uzbekistan’s first power plants with his counterparts in those countries, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Shavkat Mirziyoyev …
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  5. Oct 18

    These were the good old days, am I right? :: Erdogan: Turkey supports Saudi-led mission in Yemen

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    Oct 18

    Yeni Safak, a pro-government Turkish newspaper notorious for fabricating stories leads with the headline: " the world talked about Yeni Safak" listing all the media outlets that attributed to their report detailing the gruesome killing of Jamal Khashoggi

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    Oct 17

    My latest article just came out in Security Studies. It examines how clients fit into Iran’s grand strategy and the utility (as well as pitfalls) non-state militant groups provide to states

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  8. Oct 16

    Brilliant Pebbles

    Paul Allen purchased a demilitarized Scud A for $359,000 a few years back. I believe it's at the MVTF and I really want to know who now owns it. …
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  9. Oct 16

    One hiccup is, of course, how to release more information without betraying sources and methods. Although, in releasing details about recordings Turkey has signaled it monitors diplomatic missions (Im shocked!)

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  10. Oct 16

    This process has also allowed Erdogan to remain above it all, even though much of — if not all — of the information is coming from subordinates in his office.

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  11. Oct 16

    The results are considerable and should be studied: Ankara has created a single point of contact, controls the information, and has managed to get the NYT, WaPo, MEE, Sabah, and Yeni Safak to all write the same exact thing.

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  12. Oct 16

    I have a rather benign interpretation of the Turkish drip drip approach: 1) They are good at it. This is how the Turkish media works these days; 2) KSA killed someone in Turkey, violating sovereignty in a particularly brazen and brutal manner.

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  13. Oct 16

    This essay is wholesale disinformation. It is quite unsettling to read. The DPRK sections, in particular, are fiction.

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  14. Oct 16

    Hey , you also find it hard to reconcile the perceived need for KSA basing access with how KSA reacts when we’ve historically asked for basing access? (Iraq 1990-1991 excluded)

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  15. Oct 16

    Officials should question assumptions about this maximum pressure effort independent of the KSA targeted killing

    NEW from : White House officials worry the apparent killing of Jamal Khashoggi, and Saudi Arabia’s changing account of his fate, could derail a major showdown with Iran and jeopardize plans to enlist Saudi help to avoid disrupting the oil market. …
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    Oct 16

    The US Ambassador to NATO's lapse of language risks feeding a particular strain of Russian paranoia.

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  17. Oct 16

    New podcast up with and, as always, producer

    New Arms Control Wonk Podcast ep up! Jeffrey and Aaron discuss the New START Treaty and its implications for US/Russia relations. …
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  18. Oct 16

    How did we end up with this bizarre and short-sighted proposal?

    30 prominent former U.S. officials & Iran experts urge to enforce sanctions on ⁦⁩ board — if 11/4 deadline to expel Iranian banks not met. ⁦⁩ with the story: …
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    YouTube cc: ⁦⁩

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  20. Oct 15

    Cc:

    Turkey will have her own 5th generation fighter jet and the capability of the unique design and production as one of the few leading countries in the world.
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