Murat Yetkin

Journalist-Writer

Türkiye-US rift over Israel-Hamas escalates

A few hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Hamas is “defending Anatolia’s frontline” in Gaza in Turkish parliament…

9 hours ago

Power play in Ankara: Bahçeli’s influence on Erdoğan

The phrase "Fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech" belongs to French philosopher Roland Barthes. Whether out of genuine…

11 hours ago

Türkiye’s new austerity program: Three questions on the bitter pill

Minister of Treasury and Finance, Mehmet Şimşek, finally unveiled long-awaited austerity measures in the public sector on May 13, under…

2 days ago

Erdoğan-Mitsotakis: as long as nothing goes wrong…

The most important outcome expected from the May 13 visit of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Ankara as the…

4 days ago

DEM Party’s three cautionary notes on ‘normalization’ talks

The Democratic Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) emerged as the opposition party providing the most explicit support for the…

1 week ago

Türkiye halts trade with Israel amidst shifting global currents

In the past few days, Türkiye took two significant steps against Israel's attacks in Gaza, which have claimed the lives…

2 weeks ago

Özel-Erdoğan meeting yields first result: sustained dialogue ahead

The most significant outcome of the shift in the political landscape after March 31 local elections yet was the meeting…

2 weeks ago

Erdoğan uses constitution debate as a smokescreen to obscure problems

President Tayyip Erdoğan is using the constitutional amendment as a smokescreen to obscure and distract attention from the major problems…

3 weeks ago

İYİ Party under Dervişoğlu can change Turkish political balances

  Meral Akşener followed a line similar to that followed in Western democracies, albeit with some delay. First, she declared…

3 weeks ago

Two challenges of Şimşek: tax reform and public sector savings

The local elections are over. Not as the Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan intended, but as opposition CHP leader Özgür Özel…

3 weeks ago