Mandy Turner

Turner

Mandy Turner is a writer based in London affiliated with Security in Context as a senior researcher. Her research focuses on the political economy of conflict and peace, humanitarianism and multilateralism, and the situation in Palestine and Israel.

How Western policy in Gaza paved the way for 7 October attacks

Twenty years after Hamas’ election victory in the OPT, Many Turner reflects on the consequences of Western sanctions and the civil war that it provoked.

06 February, 2026