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The Middle East Political and Economic Affairs: Reporting and analysis of major political and economic developments in the Middle East, Turkey being a key player in the region.

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Murat Yetkin
11 October 2024, Friday / Published in Politics, The Middle East Political and Economic Affairs

Türkiye mulls new strategy on Kurdish issue

On the same day that the Chief Legal Advisor to the Turkish Presidency, Mehmet Uçum, said “the state does not repeat a process that fails to yield results,” journalist Amberin Zaman, known for her deep Kurdish and American sources, made an intriguing claim on the Al-Monitor news site. According to her report, which she claims
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Murat Yetkin
15 March 2024, Friday / Published in Politics, Terrorism and counter-terrorism: Turkey and neighbors, The Middle East Political and Economic Affairs, Turkish Foreign Relations Analysis Forecast

Potential Türkiye-Iraq agreement: A game-changer in the Middle East

Top-level Turkish security delegation’s visit to Baghdad on March 14 should be considered as a significant step towards a comprehensive Türkiye Iraq agreement ahead of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s expected visit to Iraq in April after 12 years. The rapprochement and establishment of strategic political and economic relations between Türkiye and Iraq appear to
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Murat Yetkin
31 July 2020, Friday / Published in Politics, The Middle East Political and Economic Affairs

What is not told us in foreign policy

The government is holding the Turkish public opinion with agendas like reopening Hagia Sophia as a mosque, the debate about the Istanbul Convention against violence against women, internet bans. But this does not mean that nothing is happening in foreign policy; the usual subject to distract attention from difficulties in the economy. On the contrary,
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Murat Yetkin
13 January 2020, Monday / Published in Politics, The Middle East Political and Economic Affairs

Libya: winners, losers and the outlook

Now that Libya’s Eastern and Western neighbours, Egypt and Algeria, have also declared their supports for Turkey and Russia’s call made on January 8 for a ceasefire in Libya from January 12, the prospect of war in the Mediterranean has been replaced by the prospect of the peace talks to be held in Germany.It looks
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Murat Yetkin
06 January 2020, Monday / Published in Politics, The Middle East Political and Economic Affairs

How will the U.S.-Iran crisis affect Turkey?

It appears Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan is feeling highly disgruntled and resentful of U.S. President Donald Trump for not notifying him in advance that they were going to shoot Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani. He expressed his feelings on the evening of January 5 as such: “We had a conversation with Trump on that evening; this
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Murat Yetkin
03 January 2020, Friday / Published in Politics, The Middle East Political and Economic Affairs

Turkey: Soleimani hit to raise tension in the Middle East

In a rather strong statement, Turkish Foreign Ministry said on January 3 that the U.S. air operation which reportedly killed Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani in Iraq could increase the insecurity and instability in the Middle East. “We are deeply concerned about the rising tension between the USA and Iran” the written statement said; “We
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Murat Yetkin
03 January 2020, Friday / Published in Politics, The Middle East Political and Economic Affairs

Soleimani hit may cause bigger issues: Turkish opposition

Killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander Qasem Soleimani through a U.S. strike in Iraq could be the “beginning of new and bigger problems” in the Middle East, said Turkish opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on January 3. During a press conference in Ankara, Kılıçdaroğlu said that Turkey, as a neighbour of both
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Murat Yetkin
19 December 2019, Thursday / Published in Politics, The Middle East Political and Economic Affairs

Libya should not be the next Syria

President Tayyip Erdoğan’s December 9 statement on the public TRT channel about the possibility of Turkey sending troops if the Libyan government requests it, has shifted the international attention from Syria to Libya. This claim preceded the December 14 presidential decree granting visa exemptions to Libyan passport holders who are “younger than 16 and older
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Murat Yetkin
05 November 2019, Tuesday / Published in Politics, The Middle East Political and Economic Affairs

Russia’s Syria game plan targets U.S. via Turkey

Russian and Turkish soldiers’ joint patrol against the YPG militants along the Turkey-Syria border started on November 1. It was followed by two key developments. One was a bomb attack in the Tel Abyad marketplace, resulting in the deaths of 13 and injuries of 20 people. On the same day, on November 2, demonstrations took
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Murat Yetkin
23 October 2019, Wednesday / Published in Politics, The Middle East Political and Economic Affairs

Erdoğan and Putin won in Syria. Who’s the loser?

Following the U.S. President Donald Trump, Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan has convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin not to allow the establishment of a Kurdish state in Syria; and Putin convinced Erdoğan to cooperate with the Syrian regime, if not personally with Bashar al-Assad. Two hours before the expiry of a 120-deadline deal between the U.S.
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  • The PKK’s decision to dissolve and questions to the Turkish government13 May 2025
  • Turkish public awareness of the disbanding of the PKK is low: survey13 May 2025
  • Türkiye is at the threshold for a solution to its chronic Kurdish problem9 May 2025
  • Security is the new dynamic in EU-Turkish relations9 May 2025
  • Kirkuk–Baniyas: the oil pipeline project that could sideline Türkiye30 April 2025
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