Burak Bekdil

Burak Bekdil is an Ankara-based freelance journalist. He writes a column for the Turkish Daily News and covers defense and security for the U.S. weekly Defense News. He also writes for other western publications. Bekdil was formerly the Ankara correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and Ankara bureau chief for the Ankara-based CNBC-e television.

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Turkish Crackdown on Homegrown al-Qaeda Cells in Gaziantep

02.05.2008 Burak Bekdil

A major crackdown against alleged al-Qaeda militants in southern Turkey that left four militants and one policeman dead on January 24 has proven two things:...

Publication Terrorism Focus Europe

U.S. Applies Terrorist Designation to Kurdistan Freedom Falcons

01.22.2008 Burak Bekdil

Following a full month of Turkish military strikes on bases of the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, the movement appears to have...

Publication Terrorism Focus Europe

HOPES LOW FOR CLARIFYING ANTI-“TURKISHNESS” CONCEPT

01.11.2008 Burak Bekdil

The infamous Article 301 of the Turkish penal code, which outlaws “humiliating Turkishness,” has been the focal point of criticism that the country lacks decent...

Publication Eurasia Daily Monitor Turkey

Is the “Politicization” of the Kurdish Struggle in Turkey a Security Threat?

01.02.2008 Burak Bekdil

For almost three decades, Turkish governments and the military establishment have had to fight back a violent armed struggle for an independent Kurdish state. Despite...

Publication Terrorism Monitor Europe