Ahmet S. Yayla

Ahmet S. Yayla is an assistant professor at DeSales University and a former counterterrorism police chief in Turkey.

Stories by Ahmet S. Yayla

Members of a Turkey-backed Syrian militia near the Northern Syrian city of Manbij, on Dec. 30. (Anas Alkharboutli/Picture Alliance/ Getty Images)

The United States Can’t Rely on Turkey to Defeat ISIS

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Colin P. Clarke, Ahmet S. Yayla

December 31, 2018, 10:01 PM

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives to deliver a speech with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto (out of frame) at the National Palace in Mexico City on February 12, 2015. Erdogan is in Mexico for a two-day official visit. AFP PHOTO/ Yuri CORTEZ / AFP PHOTO / Yuri CORTEZ (Photo credit should read YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

Turkey’s Double ISIS Standard

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Ahmet S. Yayla, Colin P. Clarke

April 12, 2018, 4:43 PM

A woman reads names on a commemorative plaque during a memorial ceremony for victims of an Islamic State attack at Istanbul's Ataturk airport, on June 28, 2016. (Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images)

Erdogan’s Fatal Blind Spot

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Colin P. Clarke, Ahmet S. Yayla

February 15, 2018, 5:04 PM

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