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Murat Yetkin
18 August 2024, Sunday / Published in Politics

Visa liberalization or strategic concession? Behind Türkiye-Iraq agreement

Türkiye and Iraq signed a “Memorandum of Understanding on Combating Terrorism” on August 15. On the 40th anniversary of PKK militants launching an armed struggle against Türkiye with raids on Eruh and Şemdinli from Iraqi territory, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein signed this symbolically significant agreement. However, this agreement, which
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Murat Yetkin
15 July 2024, Monday / Published in Politics

Erdoğan towards the end of his Syria adventure: who will pay the bill?

“We want peace with Syria,” President Tayyip Erdoğan told journalists on his return from the NATO Summit on July 12. Was Türkiye at war with Syria? Yes and no. No, because the armies of the two neighbors did not fight a war, there was no declaration of it. Yes, because with the outbreak of civil
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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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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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Murat Yetkin
22 March 2024, Friday / Published in Politics

Pro-Kurdish DEM was hoping a “dialogue call” but PKK called for war

Last weekend, Murat Karayılan, one of the leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), announced that he would deliver “good news” soon, which drew attention to what he would reveal. On one hand, Newroz was approaching, and Kurdish-issue focused People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) had organized rallies spreading throughout the week, while on
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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
11 March 2024, Monday / Published in Politics

Turkey-US relations: overcoming the major hurdle to turn a new page

Turkish Foreign Minsiter Hakan Fidan had a meeting with his US counterpart Antony Blinken in Washington on March 8. “There is an opportunity to continue our path by opening a new page with a positive agenda,” he said in a press conference following the meeting and other discussions and contacts. Türkiye-US relations were a “historic”
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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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Mehmet Öğütçü
20 January 2024, Saturday / Published in Politics

Are we at the table or on the menu?

The energy war, the ethnic war, the religion/sect-based war, the trade war, the technology war, the water war, the war against terrorism, and the war for regional dominance are taking place right next to us. If we cannot read these better in the light of the global struggle and strategic moves and do not take
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Murat Yetkin
17 January 2024, Wednesday / Published in Politics, Terrorism and counter-terrorism: Turkey and neighbors

Türkiye’s cross-border strategy: Codes of Ministers’ PKK briefing

“If we had not been there, the organization’s attacks on our borders would have continued as before and we would have paid a higher price in our own cities,” Yaşar Güler said on January 16 as he and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan briefed the Turkish Grand National Assembly in response to the PKK attack to
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  • A Zionism analysis based on a heartless Gaza piece in The NY Times23 July 2025
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  • Will solving the terrorism problem help with Turkish-EU visa issues?22 July 2025
  • After İmamoğlu, Turkish opposition leader Özel faces prison threat, too3 July 2025
  • Overcoming semantics in Cyprus, establishing functionality3 July 2025
  • Can Ankara convince Hamas to a ceasefire and disarmament?1 July 2025
  • Erdogan with Trump after five years: why can they get along better now?26 June 2025
  • The Story of Iranian Women: The Resistance Never Stopped26 June 2025
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