How Turkey is playing Saudi Arabia
Adnan R. Khan reports from Istanbul on why Turkey is turning up the pressure on its stronger Middle East rival over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi
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Adnan R. Khan
Adnan R. Khan has been on the ground for Maclean’s in some of the world’s most unfriendly places, from Pakistan to Iraq, writing about conflict, politics, society, and the occasional vacationing tips in Afghanistan. He claims to be based in a small cabin somewhere on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast though no one can definitively prove it.
The death of Jamal Khashoggi and the weaponization of diplomacy
Adnan R. Khan: Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Russia have all started using diplomatic missions as tools to silence critics. It’s a dangerous, historic shift.
In Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi has failed. But then, so have we.
Opinion: As Myanmar’s military commits genocide against the Rohingya, Canada strips a fallen icon of her honorary citizenship—a tumble from grace that we helped create
The next, best hope for Afghanistan
Until his assassination, Ahmad Shah Massoud fought the Taliban in the name of a tolerant, united Afghanistan. Now his son is taking up the struggle.
’The Saudis suck on human rights.’ How the world sees Saudi Arabia.
Adnan R. Khan: From Turkey to Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia is known as a disruptive human rights abuser. Canada is not alone in its criticism.
As Kandahar finds peace, Canada finds its own kind of vindication
Adnan R. Khan returns to Afghanistan’s formerly fraught southern region, where lessons from Canada’s failed mission more than a decade ago are inspiring America’s next steps
Why Turkey, not Trump, is the NATO wildcard
Adnan R. Khan: Ignore Trump and his theatrics. The real issue when NATO meets will be Turkey and its dangerous drift into Russia’s orbit.
Turkey’s election should be a warning for Western democracy
Adnan R. Khan in Istanbul: Erdogan’s brand of populism still wins, and it’s an example of what happens in a country that has no political centre
How the internet may be turning us all into radicals
Online algorithms that have learned how to push our emotional buttons are polarizing society—and the emerging science on the implications is troubling
Diplomacy is dead—and party politics killed it
In Canada and the U.S., ideology has overtaken rational diplomacy which couldn’t come at a more dangerous time.