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Murat Yetkin
19 July 2024, Friday / Published in Economy, Politics

Turkish move in Niger as France loses influence in West Africa

In Türkiye’s busy agenda, the visit of a high-level Turkish delegation to Niger on July 17 should be read as an important stage in the Türkiye-France rivalry that has recently come to the fore in Africa, beyond extensive bilateral contacts and agreements. The oil and gas agreements signed with the West African country of Niger
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Murat Yetkin
17 May 2024, Friday / Published in Politics

The Kobani verdicts: Dissecting a political trial

The Ankara 22nd High Criminal Court handed down heavy sentences in the Kobani Trial on May 16. The most notable were the 42-year sentence for Selahattin Demirtaş and the 30-year sentence for Figen Yüksekdağ, both of whom were co-chairs of the HDP at the time. Their sentences were the natural headline in media. Like the
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Murat Yetkin
27 March 2024, Wednesday / Published in Politics, Terrorism and counter-terrorism: Turkey and neighbors

ISIS Moscow attack: A shift in targets, strategy or sponsor?

Since the bloody attack on the concert hall in Moscow, I have been speaking with sources from the intelligence, security, and diplomatic circles. The point they all converge on is that the March 22 attack of the ISIS Khorasan province branch, (ISIS-K) which killed 139 people in Moscow, differs from known ISIS actions in terms
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Mehmet Öğütçü
25 March 2024, Monday / Published in Politics

The real center of power in the Turkish-US relations is the Pentagon

We were chatting with an American diplomat, who held high positions in the US State Department while on duty, during the coffee break of an important meeting in Marrakesh. Stating that in the critical period we are in, the USA has been acting as if it has discarded Türkiye. In contrast, new dynamics have emerged
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Mehmet Öğütçü
17 February 2024, Saturday / Published in Politics

Which forces are behind ISIS?

This question has been puzzling me since the day it first emerged. (*) The organization, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group. Its origins lay in the Cey’ish al-Taifa al-Mansurah organization,
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Murat Yetkin
05 February 2024, Monday / Published in Politics

Diplomats in Ankara wonder about the travels of intel chief Kalın

The meeting between the head of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT), İbrahim Kalın, and Hamas leader İsmail Haniyeh in Doha, Qatar, on February 3 has increased the curiosity of Ankara diplomatic circles recently. A few hours after Anadolu Agency’s report, citing security sources, Hamas spokesman Osama bin Hamdan announced overnight that no new ceasefire
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YetkinReport
30 December 2023, Saturday / Published in Politics

Turkish police nab ISIS cells in preparation for New Year attacks

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said via his “X” account that 29 ISIS members, who were preparing terrorist attacks on churches and synagogues in İstanbul, were captured in simultaneous operations in 9 provinces with the joint work of the Turkish Intelligence Organization (MİT) and General Police Directorate (Emniyet). A few days earlier, on December 21, Yerlikaya
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YetkinReport
06 October 2023, Friday / Published in Politics

Turkish forces hit 30 targets in Northern Syria

Turkish Ministry of National Defense announced that the Turkish Armed Forces conducted airstrikes against 30 targets in northern Syria as of 23:00 local time on October 5. “In order to eliminate terrorist attacks against our people and security forces from Northern Syria by neutralizing PKK/YPG and other terrorist elements and to ensure our border security;
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Murat Yetkin
06 August 2023, Sunday / Published in Politics

MİT’s tactical goal is to render the PKK’s mid-echelon inoperable

Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT) made one of its more frequent announcements on August 4. Bayram Yılmaz, aka Agit Gever, the PKK’s “Courier General”, who oversaw communication between the PKK units in Iraq, Syria, and Türkiye, was killed in his vehicle near Sinjar in northwest Iraq by a Turkish Air Force armed UAV. When MİT
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YetkinReport
01 May 2023, Monday / Published in Politics

Turkish intel MIT kills ISIS leader in Syria

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan announced that the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) had “neutralized” ISIS leader Abu Hussein al-Quraishi. Erdoğan announced on live TV on April 30 that MIT neutralized Quraishi, whom had been “followed for a long time,” in an operation in Syria on April 29. The expression “neutralized” usually means “killed” by Turkish security
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  • Pro-gov’t paper Yeni Şafak slams Turkish economy: an anti-Şimşek op27 May 2025
  • US Ambassador Barrack: Syria will not be divided, no new Sykes-Picot26 May 2025
  • Özel to Erdoğan: “You are a local dictator. You will leave as you came.”20 May 2025
  • UK-Türkiye: More than just a free trade agreement on the horizon20 May 2025
  • Towards a simultaneous solution to Ukraine, Syria and the Kurdish issues16 May 2025
  • 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
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