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[OPINION] Turkey’s digital authoritarianism: How Erdoğan perfected the art of invisible repression

Adem Yavuz Arslan* When Oxford scholar Steven Feldstein published "The Rise of Digital Repression" in 2021, his warning felt prescient. “Technology has become not a...
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[OPINION] Turkey: from ‘Model Muslim democracy’ to a global cocaine hub

Adem Yavuz Arslan* Once hailed as “the model where Islam and democracy could coexist,” Turkey has been transformed into one of the world’s emerging cocaine...
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[OPINION] Turkey’s ambiguous role in Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan

Ömer Murat* In the complex world of Middle Eastern diplomacy, appearances often take precedence over reality. Until last month’s meeting in New York on the...
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[OPINION] When the spotlight becomes a cage: How sensational journalism feeds ego and starves truth

Yasemin Aydın* In the age of attention, journalism no longer merely informs, it performs. The louder the headline, the stronger the reaction, the higher the...
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[OPINION] Why do opposing groups in Turkey unite against Fethullah Gülen?

Abdülhamit Bilici* At a meeting where I was speaking about the injustices in Turkey over the past decade, mainly the persecution of people affiliated with...
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[OPINION] Human-Centered Policing: a forgotten legacy of reform in Turkey

Dr. Mustafa Dönmez* In the 1990s Turkey was rocked by frequent terrorist attacks and an aggressive security climate. Reports of torture, ill-treatment, bribery and human...
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[OPINION] Turkey’s defense industry: politics, propaganda and reality

Adem Yavuz Arslan* Over the past decade Turkey’s government has promoted an ambitious narrative: that the country is becoming a global powerhouse in defense technology....
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[OPINION] Erdoğan is seeking legitimacy in Washington after losing it in Turkey

Ömer Murat* The Trump era marks a decisive break in US foreign policy. Unlike the Obama and Biden administrations, Trump does not view international organizations...
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[OPINION] Oval Office rendezvous: a win for Erdoğan, a loss for Turkey

Abdülhamit Bilici* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent White House visit marked a critical turning point in Turkey’s decade-long drift toward a Middle Eastern–style autocracy....
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[OPINION] Erdoğan’s White House visit yields photo ops, costly commitments

Adem Yavuz Arslan* President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s long-awaited White House meeting finally took place this week. In Turkey the pro-government media, which dominates the media...
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[OPINION] Bahçeli’s call for a Turkey-Russia-China alliance: a veiled power play amid Erdoğan tensions

Ömer Murat* Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and a political ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has stirred Turkey’s political...
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[OPINION] Turkey at a crossroads: the struggle for democracy and collective agency

Yasemin Aydın* The developments of recent months in Turkey — the arrest of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP),...
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