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Murat Yetkin
29 March 2025, Saturday / Published in Politics

Is Trump’s support for Erdoğan to disarm PKK and Hamas together?

In Türkiye, as main opposition CHP leader Özgür Özel called on the masses who filled İstanbul’s Saraçhane Square despite police batons, pepper spray and threats of arrest to resist the “one-man regime”, US President Donald Trump endorsed Erdoğan as “a good leader”. Trump gave this support during a meeting on March 25 at the White
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Murat Yetkin
12 March 2025, Wednesday / Published in Politics

Ankara’s conditional support for US-bound SDF deal in Syria

The agreement announced on March 10 on the Kurdish-base Syrian Defense Forces, SDF joining the Syrian army was brokered by the US, with Ankara playing a secondary role. Nevertheless, Ankara does not want to bind itself to the agreement, saying it is “cautiously optimistic” and will observe whether it is implemented by both the Ahmed
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Murat Yetkin
07 March 2025, Friday / Published in Politics

“The genie is out of the bottle”. Ankara discusses a Europe without NATO

This sentence, uttered by the Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to the Financial Times, summarizes the view of Türkiye regarding the changing global geopolitics in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s comments in the last few weeks. This sentence is preceded by “Türkiye would want to be part of any new European security architecture
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Murat Yetkin
05 March 2025, Wednesday / Published in Politics

Will Erdoğan untie or cut the PKK’s knot in Syria?

When I was writing my book “Kürt Kapanı (The Kurdish Trap)” about the full story of the capture of Abdullah Öcalan, the founding leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Süleyman Demirel, the Turkish President of the time, told me that İsmail Hakkı Karadayı, the Chief of General Staff at the time, had said
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Murat Yetkin
07 February 2025, Friday / Published in Politics

Türkiye to rebuild Syrian Military: Turkish officials confirm

It is reported that Türkiye will take an active role in restructuring the Syrian military. According to the statement made by Ministry of National Defense sources, the proposal came from Syria and the first contact was established a week ago. Ministry’s statement came after Syrian interim President Ahmed Shara’s Ankara visit on February 4. Sources informed
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Murat Yetkin
05 February 2025, Wednesday / Published in Politics

Shara in Ankara, Netanyahu in Washington: The battle over maps

The three-hour meeting between interim Syrian President Ahmed Shara and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Presidential Complex in Ankara marked a historic moment in regional politics. Shara, arriving in a Turkish presidential aircraft from Damascus, was welcomed with full state honors, and the leaders discussed a wide range of issues from security cooperation
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Murat Yetkin
18 January 2025, Saturday / Published in Politics

PKK explores Syria exit strategy through SDF autonomy deal

On the evening of January 16, the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP) Foreign Relations office made a brief but significant post on their X account. The English message was succinct: “United we stand, divided we fall. President Masoud Barzani met with SDF Commander Mazlum Abdi in Erbil.” The announcement came immediately after the meeting. The post
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Nermin Pınar Erdoğan
15 January 2025, Wednesday / Published in Politics

Syrian FM in Ankara: Erdoğan pursues twin strategy on Kurdish issue and Syria

Syria’s interim Foreign Minister Assad Hassan al-Shibani met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on January 15 in Ankara, marking the first such visit since the recent regime change in Syria. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan was also present at the closed-door meeting held at the Presidential Compound in Beştepe district in Ankara. The high-level meeting
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Murat Yetkin
26 December 2024, Thursday / Published in Politics

New battleground in Turkish politics: Syria versus economic relief

When President Tayyip Erdoğan began reciting the opening verses of Surah Al-Fath in Arabic during his Justice and Development Party (AKP) parliamentary group meeting on December 25, amid chants of “Conqueror of Syria,” I wrote in my notebook “We’re going into Syria.” However, launching an operation against the PKK/YPG in Syria is one thing; conquest
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YetkinReport
24 December 2024, Tuesday / Published in Politics

Turkish Interior Minister: “25,000 Syrian refugees returned home this month”

Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced a sevenfold increase in the number of Syrian refugees voluntarily returning to their homeland in the last 15 days following the collapse of the 61-year-old Ba’ath regime in Syria and the flight of President Bashar al-Assad to Russia on December 8. Speaking to the Anadolu Agency (AA), Minister Yerlikaya
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  • 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
  • Why did Türkiye not condemn the U.S. strike on Iran? What is going on?23 June 2025
  • What the U.S. strike on Iran might unleash — from the Gulf to Ankara23 June 2025
  • Turkish Defense Ministry on high alert against migration risk from Iran18 June 2025
  • Five Lessons from Israel’s strike on Iran, one is about Türkiye14 June 2025
  • Ankara watched Israel’s Iran attack: 200 jets in 6 waves, local support13 June 2025
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