Turkey

Erdoğan’s economic gamble: Will tycoons feel the pinch too?

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz unveiled the Medium Term Program (MTP), outlining Ankara's economic roadmap for the next three years.…

1 day ago

The Ankara “bromance”: Erdoğan-Bahçeli unity amidst opposition chaos

I wonder if it's appropriate to describe the conspicuously close relationship between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and MHP leader Devlet…

1 week ago

“Two States, One Nation”: Erdoğan’s words and Aliyev’s response

I first heard the phrase "Two states, one nation" from Abulfaz Elchibey. It was early 1992, just after Azerbaijan had…

2 weeks ago

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…

3 weeks ago

Middle East at boiling point: Türkiye, the U.S. and Chekhov’s gun

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on August 12 and, summarizing from the American State…

4 weeks ago

Why Instagram was blocked and unblocked in Türkiye?

On the morning of August 2, millions of Turkish users found that Instagram had been blocked. By 9:30 PM on…

4 weeks ago

Erdoğan’s AKP faces new test: The Can Atalay case and Abbas visit

Another test of pluralist democracy and rule of law within President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) will…

4 weeks ago

So-called judicial reform and half-baked strategy documents

While not a single iota of what the AK Party intends with its rhetoric of a "new and civil constitution"…

1 month ago

Israel and Turkey: Is realism shelved?

Israel is neither Libya nor Armenia, as President Erdoğan suggests, and Turkey is not Saddam's Iraq, despite the unfortunate comparison…

1 month ago

Erdoğan’s Israel threat, Israel’s Saddam audacity

First and foremost, we must not leave unaddressed the audacity of Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz, who suggested that President…

1 month ago