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Selim C. Sazak

Selim C. Sazak is a non-resident fellow at the Abu Dhabi-based think-tank Delma Institute and a doctoral candidate at Brown University.
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Where Can the US and Turkey Go From Here?

The battle to save the relationship will not be an easy one, but we have not lost it just yet.

  • Selim C. Sazak and Caglar Kurc
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Turkey's Slow-Cooking Crisis With Its Allies Is Coming to a Boil

Ankara just got its first F-35. It may never get another.

  • Selim C. Sazak and Caglar Kurc
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Turkey’s Potemkin Defense Industry

Why does President Erdogan want the appearance of a self-sufficient defense industry more than the actual existence of one?

  • Caglar Kurc and Selim C. Sazak
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How Green Energy Will Help Slow Nuclear Proliferation

The move to renewable energy offers the ability to delineate between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ nuclear actors in a way that we simply can’t today.

  • Selim C. Sazak
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Why Turkey Chose, and Then Rejected, a Chinese Air-Defense Missile

Ankara's decisions say a lot about what Turkey wants from the U.S. and NATO, if only the West will listen.

  • Mustafa Kibaroglu and Selim C. Sazak