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[OPINION] With peace talks stalled, Ankara weighs military action in Syria

Ömer Murat* In recent months, renewed talk of peace in Turkey’s decades-long Kurdish conflict has been marked by growing ambiguity. According to a recent academic...
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[OPINION] The Öcalan initiative: peace or a power play?

Adem Yavuz Arslan* For four decades the conflict between the Turkish state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has shaped Turkey’s political and social...
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[OPINION] Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Turkey: warm optics, cold realities

Adem Yavuz Arslan* Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Turkey has been wrapped in the language of peace, unity and dialogue. Official ceremonies, symbolic gestures in...
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[OPINION] A peace process without ownership: Erdoğan’s gamble on İmralı talks

Ömer Murat* In a move shrouded in secrecy and political maneuvering, three members of the Turkish Parliament from a special parliamentary commission met with Abdullah...
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[OPINION] Half a century in pursuit of dialogue

Abdülhamit Bilici* This year’s Rumi Peace and Dialogue Awards ceremony was held at Washington, D.C.’s Meridian House, one of the finest examples of European classical...
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[ANALYSIS] Is Erdoğan building a political influence empire in the United States?

Adem Yavuz Arslan* A foundation tied to the family of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is attracting increased attention in Washington, D.C., after revelations about...
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[OPINION] How the case against İstanbul’s mayor signals Turkey’s democratic erosion

Adem Yavuz Arslan* The new indictment of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, along with a series of coordinated administrative and political moves, may appear on the...
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[OPINION] Trump’s new foreign policy: pragmatism at the expense of principle

Yasemin Aydın* While Washington continues to gossip about Donald Trump’s extravagant White House ballroom project, attention has increasingly shifted to his recent foreign policy signals....
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[OPINION] Bahçeli’s attack on US envoy exposes widening cracks in Turkey’s ruling alliance

Ömer Murat* In a fiery speech to his party’s parliamentary group in the Turkish Parliament, Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP),...
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[OPINION] What Zohran Mamdani’s victory can teach the opposition in authoritarian states

Adem Yavuz Arslan* In a political world shaped by money, media influence and entrenched elites, few victories have felt as improbable — or as instructive...
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[OPINION] Erasing the archives: How authoritarian regimes wage war on memory

Adem Yavuz Arslan* “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”** That line appeared as a party slogan in George...
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[OPINION] Never-ending ‘maybe’: Europe’s fear of belonging and Turkey’s flight from responsibility

Yasemin Aydın* The October 2025 visit of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to Ankara was not a turning point in policy but a revealing episode in...
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