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[OPINION] Erdoğan reshapes Turkey’s electoral battlefield

Ömer Murat* Under Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, elections are often decided long before ballots are cast, during a prolonged pre-election phase in which rivals...

[ANALYSIS] Foreign correspondence in an age of institutional contraction

Yasemin Aydın* When The Washington Post closed its foreign bureaus in February 2026, it was more than an economic decision. With each silenced correspondent, a...

[OPINION] The Washington Post: not a downsizing, but the end of an era

Adem Yavuz Arslan* As the world struggles to process the scale of the newly released Epstein files, another development from Washington has passed with surprisingly...

[OPINION] The twilight of order: Why Turkey remains trapped in transition

Ömer Murat* Global politics is currently experiencing more than a standard cyclical crisis: It is undergoing a profound structural rupture. The liberal international order that...

[OPINION] The US recalibrates in Syria, and Turkey feels the impact

Adem Yavuz Arslan* The political landscape in Syria is undergoing a rapid and consequential transformation. As power balances shift on the ground, recent signals from...

[OPINION] Turkey after Erdoğan: A country, a family and an inevitable reckoning

Adem Yavuz Arslan* Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is no longer just a politician who has ruled Turkey since 2002. He is the architect of a system...

[OPINION] How Ahmed al-Sharaa gained the upper hand in Aleppo

Ömer Murat* Last week in Aleppo, Syria’s long-frozen internal balance of power entered a decisive new phase. The first direct confrontation took place between Syrian...

[OPINION] Why the Maduro case signals trouble for Turkey

Adem Yavuz Arslan* The arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro by the United States has ignited a debate that reaches far beyond Venezuela itself. What...

[OPINION] The return of rule by force: Venezuela

Yasemin Aydın* Regardless of how one judges Nicolás Maduro’s rule, a line was crossed the moment the sitting president of a sovereign country was forcibly...

[OPINION] 2025: Democracy under attack

Yasemin Aydın* The year 2025 will probably not be remembered as a dramatic breaking point for democracy. No sudden collapses. No single moment where everything fell...

[OPINION] Operation against Fenerbahçe president Saran exposes Turkey’s political fault lines

Ömer Murat* Turkey is experiencing one of the deepest political and economic contractions in recent decades. The crisis extends far beyond inflation and interest rates,...

[OPINION] Who controls the digital public square?

Yasemin Aydın* In early December the European Commission imposed a €120 million ($140 million) fine on the X social media platform, owned by Elon Musk,...

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