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Turkey Exploits Gaza Distraction to Pound the Kurds

Source:International Policy Digest Date:13Jan2024

A useful primer to understanding the recent conflagration in Turkey-PKK skirmishes.  This is the pro-Kurdish viewpoint, I don’t  necessarily endorse it   It is evident that Turkey is

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Kemal Kirişçi: An Exodus of Professionals: The End of Politics in Turkey?

Source:Just Security Date:10Jan2024

What distinguishes the current exodus from previous waves of emigration out of Turkey is a deepening sense of “voicelessness” with respect to change and reform, after the failure of even a united

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‘People come to touch the walls’: fears for Istanbul’s crumbling Byzantine past

Source:The Guardian Date:07Jan2024

Despite restoration led by the opposition-controlled Istanbul municipality, local news stories about sections of the wall collapsing are a frequent occurrence, a sign of how the city’s

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Selahattin Demirtaş presses ahead with controversial trial amid grief

Source:Medianews.net Date:02Jan2024

Following the death of his father on Sunday, jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş will continue to defend himself at Tuesday’s hearing of the Kobani (Kobanê) trial, in which 108 members

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Murat Yesiltas: Türkiye’s foreign policy in 2024

Source:Sabah daily Date:27Dec2023

Published in AKP mouth piece SABAH daily. I suppose  it knows better than us  the mindset in Erdogan’s Palace   Failure to address the YPG issue in 2024 could escalate into a broader

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ICC: Türkiye’s Growing Drone Exports

Source:International Crisis Group Date:22Dec2023

Low-cost and high-performing, Turkish-made armed drones are capturing an increasing share of the global market. This success comes with risks, including escalation of conflict and reputational

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Documents Reveal Hidden Problems at Russia’s Nuclear Powerhouse

Source:Bloomberg Date:19Dec2023

This story seemse ot have nothing  to do with Turkey, but that is not so.  Rosatom is about a commission the same model in Turkey’s Akkuyu nuclear power plant next year.   To be sure,

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What to know about Turkey’s football crisis after attack on referee

Source:al Jazeera Date:18Dec2023

Turkey is set to resume its league football on Tuesday, ending a brief suspension in the domestic competition caused by an attack on a referee by a club’s president who was later arrested by

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Christians in Turkey – A Nun Returns to Her Ancestral Home

Source:Deutsche Welle Date:16Dec2023

A rarely told story in the great tragedy of Turkey kicking out her non-Moslem minorities. We know a lot about how Armeninans were forced inot exile, Greeks were forced to leave after 1967 riots

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Turkish opposition cries foul over revived legal case against Ankara mayor

Source:Financial Times Date:11Dec2023

The justice ministry is seeking to overturn a 2021 court decision not to proceed with a defamation case against Ankara mayor Mansur Yavaş, one of the leading figures in Turkey’s political

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