In the News Quotes Archive - Page 24 of 35

Amy Hawthorne

Al-Monitor,

October 23, 2019

“Voter mobilization for Kais Saied was strong… it will be fascinating to watch how Saied translates his decisive mandate into tangible change for Tunisians. Tunisia is entering a new political phase whose contours and tenor is not yet clear.”

Howard Eissenstat

Washington Post,

October 16, 2019

“We are used to thinking about the U.S. as a superpower that’s able to step into problems and leverage responses favorable to its interests and its ideals pretty handily. [But in this case] we’ve so sabotaged ourselves that we’re not able to do it.”

Howard Eissenstat

Al-Monitor,

October 16, 2019

“The steel tariff is laughable. Turkey doesn’t sell very much steel to us at all. The penalties on the ministries of defense, interior and energy don’t preclude any intergovernmental relations and, in any case, wouldn’t be activated for 30 days.”

Howard Eissenstat

The Telegraph,

October 11, 2019

“It isn’t that US officials didn’t know about Turkey’s concerns regarding the YPG/PKK. It is that they decided that the immediate benefits of cooperating with the YPG outweighed the longterm concerns of Turkey.”

Howard Eissenstat

France24,

October 10, 2019

“It’s likely that Erdogan would make life difficult for Europe if Europe made life difficult for him… [even] stringent sanctions contemplated by some US senators wouldn’t be sufficient to change the contours of Turkey’s policy at this stage.”

Seth Binder

Middle East Eye,

October 7, 2019

“[Military aid] is not an entitlement and these human rights violations are of US national security concern and they need to be addressed.”

Amy Hawthorne

New York Times,

October 4, 2019

“He’s cracking down on the one hand, and making some very cosmetic gestures on the other, but like the gestures that Mubarak took back in the day when it was clear people were unhappy, these measures failed…to stabilize the situation.”

Stephen McInerney

The Independent,

October 2, 2019

“Unfortunately President Trump and the White House and his son in law Jared Kushner have an unusually close relationship with Mohammad Bin Salman.”

Amy Hawthorne

Los Angeles Times,

September 26, 2019

“[The current wave of arrests] will be chilling and may have the effect of making a lot of people too nervous to go down to the streets.”

Howard Eissenstat

Ahval,

September 26, 2019

“Erdoğan has to make the case to Trump that there are material benefits that are greater than the S-400 issue. Giving Turkey greater control in Syria is in line with Trump’s desire to reduce U.S. costs in the conflict.”

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