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

Turks judge the world through the prism of the PKK.

Ankara's warning that Turkey will stop Israel from unilaterally exploiting gas resources in the eastern Mediterranean poses a direct challenge to U.S. policy.

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

As the Asad regime crackdown continues, neighboring states are increasingly likely to view Syria as another arena for contesting power.

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.

Turkey's military has staged coups before, but never one like this week's: by resigning, they created a power gap that destabilizes the government -- and shows how much the country needs them.

As it remakes the Middle East, the Arab Spring is also realigning U.S. and Turkish policies.

Turkey's political stalemate following the recent elections has overshadowed a key development: the near doubling of female deputies in parliament.