Türkiye’s ongoing peace process with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) holds the potential to end one of the country’s most destructive conflicts of the past four decades. Yet a lasting settlement cannot be achieved in isolation. Unless the Kurdish question in northern Syria is addressed, any peace at home will remain fragile. Instability in
The only issue uniting the political parties in the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM), which are divided on almost every matter, was once again evident during the August 29 session: the escalating Israeli aggression against Palestine and the Palestinian people. Despite being on recess, the parliament convened extraordinarily to strongly condemn Israel’s “annihilation and annexation”
August 18, 2025, may go down in history as a dark day for European diplomacy. Three days after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15, U.S. President Donald Trump, outmaneuvering European leaders, summoned them to his doorstep, saying, “Come, let me explain.” Putin had not wanted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the
The three-hour meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15 at the Elmendorf–Richardson Air Force base in Anchorage, Alaska, bore some resemblance to the Yalta Conference of 1945, which marked the end of World War II. Eighty years ago, the United States, the Soviet Union (USSR), and the United
The US-brokered peace accord between Azerbaijan and Armenia, signed at the White House under President Donald Trump’s mediation, is being celebrated as a landmark in conflict resolution. However, beyond ending decades of hostility, it has created a rare geopolitical opportunity for Türkiye to advance its regional strategy and reshape the South Caucasus’ security and connectivity
The agreement reached on August 8 in Washington by Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Pashinyan, facilitated by US President Donald Trump, has the potential to reshape not only the Caucasus but also the political and economic balances in Central Asia and the Middle East. Notably, the mutual pledge of non-aggression and the
The Turkish opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Özgür Özel can mobilize people to fill squares in his protest rallies in the hottest summer in recent years, in the heat of July and August; there’s more than one reason for it. Let’s be clear: if crowds in Anatolian cities, in cities where President Tayyip Erdoğan’s
The 27th in the series of Symi democracy conferences organized by former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou was held on the Greek island of Skiathos between 13-17 July. The symposium with the theme “Is there hope for democracy”, to which I was invited due to our presentation of the Better Judiciary Association’s “Turkish Judicial Reform