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Murat Yetkin
26 February 2025, Wednesday / Published in Politics

Erdoğan: Liberal democracy in crisis, Türkiye can rescue EU from deadlock

Following a cabinet meeting on February 24, President Tayyip Erdoğan made provocative statements likely to irritate European Union officials already caught between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to Erdoğan, “liberal democracy, the most captivating ideology of the last century, has entered a serious crisis and impasse.” He claims the resulting
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Yusuf Kanlı
26 February 2025, Wednesday / Published in Politics

Trump’s deal or Europe’s disaster?

Donald Trump’s warm and friendly phone call with Vladimir Putin and his subsequent approach to determining Ukraine’s fate resembles a real estate mogul deciding which bankrupt casino to offload next. One can almost hear him thinking, “Why pay for something when you can just give it away?” Trump and his loyal Secretary of Defense, Pete
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Murat Yetkin
26 February 2025, Wednesday / Published in Politics

“No bread for İmamoğlu”: An unprecedented political siege to Erdoğan’s top contender

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is seeking to run for office once again by securing a parliamentary majority and exploiting a constitutional ambiguity. The opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has two formidable potential candidates to challenge him: Mansur Yavaş, the Metropolitan Mayor of Ankara, and Ekrem İmamoğlu, the Metropolitan Mayor of Istanbul. While Erdoğan has thus
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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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YetkinReport
17 January 2025, Friday / Published in Politics

Opposition Mayor of İstanbul’s Beşiktaş arrested, sparking political tensions

The mayor of Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district, Rıza Akpolat from the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has been arrested and suspended from his duties, marking a significant escalation in Türkiye’s political tensions. The Ministry of Interior announced Akpolat’s suspension from his position as a “temporary measure” following his arrest on charges of “membership in a criminal
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Murat Yetkin
31 December 2024, Tuesday / Published in Politics

Game changers year 2024: From Turkish elections to global power plays

When selecting the person and event of the year for 2024 in both domestic and foreign policy, establishing the criteria is the challenging part – everything else falls into place naturally. My criterion was simple: impact on the overall political trajectory. Specifically, how an individual shaped the course of political developments in 2024, and which
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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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Murat Yetkin
19 December 2024, Thursday / Published in Politics

“Hun be xer Hatîn”: How three words signal Türkiye’s Kurdish policy shift

The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and Kurdish-issue focused DEM Party continue to confound their adversaries – and I mean this in a positive sense. Kurdish affairs have entered a new phase, particularly following the regime change in Syria. The most recent example of this shift was witnessed in the Turkish Parliament on December 17. DEM
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  • Türkiye is at the threshold for a solution to its chronic Kurdish problem9 May 2025
  • Security is the new dynamic in EU-Turkish relations9 May 2025
  • Kirkuk–Baniyas: the oil pipeline project that could sideline Türkiye30 April 2025
  • PKK tells Ankara no disarmament congress unless led by Öcalan28 April 2025
  • I will not beg Erdoğan for İmamoğlu’s freedom: opposition leader Özel27 April 2025
  • İmamoğlu effect: Turkish Central Bank raised policy rate to 46 pct17 April 2025
  • Erdoğan’s ally Bahçeli wants İmamoğlu case to end urgently15 April 2025
  • The Turkish position as Israel wants the US to dismantle Iran, too13 April 2025
  • The latest Turkish PKK move is a new generation disarmament Project13 April 2025
  • Straying jurists cause the UK to dishonour its international undertakings9 April 2025
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