In the News Quotes Archive - Page 19 of 35

Stephen McInerney

VOA News,

October 2, 2020

“The U.S. has a responsibility in those places [where it has good relations]. It has an opportunity through those relationships to try to pressure and use leverage to convince these governments to change their behavior on some of these issues.”

Merve Tahiroğlu

Al-Monitor,

September 28, 2020

“It is a bit tragic that the mechanism for actually obtaining justice for Khashoggi is now left in the hands of the Turkish judiciary, given its own problems.”

Merve Tahiroğlu

Ahval,

September 20, 2020

“[Erdogan’s foreign policy] interests are now fanning the flames of hyper-nationalism and polarisation, while making people feel like they are under attack from external and internal enemies. This is how the Erdoğan government thrives and survives.”

Merve Tahiroğlu

Al-Monitor,

September 17, 2020

“From the point of view of mainstream US policymakers, Erdogan’s hostility toward Israel and outreach to Hamas appears to be ideologically motivated and an extension of a broader Islamist, disruptive agenda in the Middle East.”

Amy Hawthorne

Al-Monitor,

September 11, 2020

“The United States has important strategic interests in Egypt, but they do not justify looking away from this human rights disaster… We cannot conduct business as usual. At a minimum, some red lines must be drawn.”

Amy Hawthorne

Foreign Policy,

September 11, 2020

“To state the obvious, the ‘peace in the Middle East’ theme touted by Trump and Kushner re. UAE-Israel agreement is disconnected from reality given that the 2 countries never fought a war and the agreement does nothing to end the Middle East wars.”

Amy Hawthorne

Conversation Six,

September 11, 2020

“I don’t see the region as a whole as a ‘dystopia’… I think that is actually too bleak, and it casts the entire region with sort of one brush of unsolvable conflict.”

Merve Tahiroğlu

Ahval,

August 26, 2020

“[For Turkey to] chart a truly independent policy is a fantasy. Turkey is not becoming more independent, it is just becoming more dependent on worse actors on the international stage.”

Amy Hawthorne

Vox,

August 16, 2020

“[Trump wants] to generate business opportunities [with Gulf countries] for after he leaves office.”

Andrew Miller

Foreign Policy,

August 11, 2020

“It’s hard to see how [Lebanon] can absorb any more [refugees]… It really does make the absence of an off-ramp to these conflicts and the return of refugees a ticking time bomb.”

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