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Turkish Domestic Politics: Analysis and forecast on all relevant developments and insight about Turkish politics with its repercussions in its neighboring countries

US Elections: Trump Suffers a Crushing Defeat. What Does It Mean for Türkiye?

The rising cost of living, war and arrogant aggression brought Trump a crushing defeat. This could once again cool Türkiye-US…

4 days ago

R4+E3 Formula: New Diplomatic Initiatives, Canada and Türkiye-EU Relations

It is clear that the EU has long since lost much of its potential to exert political leverage over Türkiye,…

2 weeks ago

How Is the Türkiye–Libya Agreement Changing the Equation in the Eastern Mediterranean?

A political structure that only a few years ago was among Türkiye’s fiercest opponents in Libya has now endorsed the…

3 weeks ago

Türkiye Must Ease Tensions with Azerbaijan Before Another Foreign Policy Problem Emerges

Türkiye-Azerbaijan relations are too important to be derailed either by Israel or by a headscarf ban. Both Erdoğan and Aliyev…

3 weeks ago

Erdoğan: Türkiye will emerge from the stock market crises “cleansed”

President Tayyip Erdoğan has promised that Türkiye will emerge from the stock market/fund crisis “cleansed.”

1 month ago

Ankara hits Iran with economic sanctions ahead of Erdoğan-Trump meeting

Ahead of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to the United States to attend the UN General Assembly on September 22,…

2 months ago

Europe’s Changing Security Balance, the United States and Turkey

Recent developments in Paris point to a noticeable shift in Europe’s understanding of security. On Friday, 18 September, Emmanuel Macron…

2 months ago

Far-Right Rise in Germany and Europe’s Unlearned Russian Lesson

US President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff left Moscow empty-handed after receiving a lecture from Russian President Vladimir Putin…

2 months ago

As Serbia Turns the “Butcher of Bosnia” Mladić into a Hero, Europe Remains Silent

Ratko Mladić is dead. But his death has reopened one of the darkest chapters in the Balkans, a chapter many…

2 months ago

Another Kavala Ruling: Getting Stuck in a Stream While Aiming to Cross the Sea

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has again found Türkiye in the wrong in Osman…

2 months ago