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[OPINION] Erdoğan’s Turkey is too lawless to get even a mafia boss extradited

Adem Yavuz Arslan* As a result of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decades-long dominance over the media and use of aggressive propaganda strategies, both traditional and...

[OPINION] Despite his harsh rhetoric, Erdoğan’s Syria policy takes conciliatory line toward Israel

Ömer Murat* An examination of the speeches delivered by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the president of Turkey,...

[ANALYSIS] A new scandal: In Erdoğan’s Turkey, corruption breeds autocracy and instability

Ömer Murat* Reports of new corruption scandals continue to surface in President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Turkey. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) has increasingly...

[OPINION] Europe’s strategic alliance with Erdoğan would come at a high price

Ömer Murat* Undeniably, the primary catalyst that prompted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to arrest his strongest political rival, İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, was the...

[OPINION] İmamoğlu’s arrest signals Turkey’s metamorphosis into a Russian-style autocracy

Ömer Murat* The grounds for the arrest of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, as stated by numerous local and international experts, bear no relation to the...

[OPINION] Another operation in Ramadan and the cycle of lawlessness

Nurullah Albayrak* Early in the morning today, those checking social media learned that 106 people, including İstanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu along with two district...

[OPINION] The US would be punishing Turkey, not just Erdoğan

Adem Yavuz Arslan* US-Turkey relations have always been turbulent. At times, they have improved significantly — rising from an alliance to a "strategic partnership" under...

[ANALYSIS] Turkey offers defense lifeline as Europe seeks security independence

Fatih Yurtsever* Recent US-Russia negotiations in Saudi Arabia, conducted without Ukrainian or European Union representatives, have intensified European security anxieties following Donald Trump's return to...

[OPINION] Will the PKK really disband if Turkey does not recognize the SDF?

Ömer Murat* Without putting recent developments in Syria at the center, it may be challenging to fully comprehend the process that began with the unexpected...

[OPINION] The old world is crumbling: What comes next?

Tarık Toros* The world is on the brink of a profound transformation. The postwar order that shaped our lives for decades is disintegrating. Familiar institutions,...

[OPINION] The White House showdown: Trump’s gambit leaves Ukraine in the cold

Adem Yavuz Arslan* History often hinges on moments of spectacle, but rarely does it unfold in such raw and unfiltered fashion as it did yesterday...

[OPINION] Erdoğan is upset at loss of relevance in Ukraine negotiations

Ömer Murat* It is no secret that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and former US President Joe Biden were not on the best of terms, so...

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