Turkey’s path to the dictatorship
The first phase of Erdoğan’s plan to neutralize the main opposition party — carried out in cooperation with former CHP...
By moving to effectively install a court-appointed administration over CHP, Erdoğan's regime has taken a step that pushes Turkey closer to a Russian-style one-man...
Weekly Turkey Report: The End Of April – “Process Frozen, Economy Cracking: Turkey at a Crossroads”
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PKK commander Murat Karayılan issued a...
Weekly Turkey Report: Fourth Week Of April – Öcalan Issues Warning and Demands on Peace Process
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Öcalan: If this process is similarly...
Weekly Turkey Report: Second Week of April 2026 - Erdoğan Moves to Neutralize CHP Under Cover of Regional Tensions
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Arrests and detentions are...
Weekly Turkey Report: First Week of April 2026 – Erdoğan is suffocating CHP
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CHP Bursa Metropolitan Mayor Mustafa Bozbey was detained along with...
Weekly Turkey Report: Fourth Week Of March – The War and The Peace
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A sweeping investigation coordinated by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's...
Weekly Turkey Report: Third Week Of March - A Political Bombshell: Justice Minister's Wealth Under Scrutiny
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While war dominates headlines around the world,...
Weekly Turkey Report: Second Week of January 2026 - CHP in Silivri
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The CHP held its weekly parliamentary group meeting in Silivri,...
Weekly Turkey Report: First Week of January 2026 - İmamoğlu trial starts
Istanbul Municipality Trial: Proceedings Begin with 402 Defendants
A trial arising from an investigation...
Weekly Turkey Report: Fourth Week of February 2026 - Öcalan calls for democracy
Peace Process & Domestic Politics
As the flames of war continue to burn...
Weekly Turkey Report: Second Week of February 2026 –The Construction of a "Monolithic" Turkey: Societal Transformation Under the Grip of Judiciary, Politics, and Economy
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Weekly Turkey Report: The End of January 2026 — Turkey Blocks Aid to Kobani
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A Turkey-backed jihadist offensive against Rojava catalyzed a new...
Weekly Turkey Report: Fourth Week of January 2026 – A New Kobane Moment for the Kurds
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Kobane once symbolized Kurdish resistance against ISIS...
Weekly Turkey Report: 3rd Week of January – Turkey Chooses the Sri Lanka Model
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The report argues that Ankara’s long-admired “Sri Lanka model”...
Weekly Turkey Report: 2nd Week of January 2026 – Peace by Beating the Kurds
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Türkiye entered the new year amid an Ankara-backed assault in...
Weekly Turkiye Report: 1th Week of January 2026: Members of the Gülen Movement Labeled “Terrorists,” ISIS Members Treated as “Suspects”
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Turkey was shaken...
Weekly Turkey Report: 4th Week of December 2025: Erdoğan Shifts the Agenda with Drug and Betting Operations
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Turkey spent the week with drug,...
Weekly Turkey Report: 3rd Week of December 2025: Parties Respect the State’s Red Lines on the Kurdish Issue
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Turkey’s main political parties continued...
Weekly Turkey Report: 2nd Week of December 2025 – Sex, Drug Allegations, and the Kurdish Question
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Turkey’s domestic agenda was dominated by allegations...
Weekly Turkey Report: 1st Week of December 2025 – Poverty Deepens amid Contentious Kurdish Peace Debates
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A new Metropoll survey confirms that the...
Weekly Turkey Report: 5th Week of November 2025 – An Öcalan Visit without Concrete Steps
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A parliamentary commission visited PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan...
Weekly Turkey Report: 3rd Week of November 2025 – Politics Rocked by Planned Öcalan Visit
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A planned parliamentary commission visit to Abdullah Öcalan...
Weekly Turkey Report: 2nd Week of November 2025 – Is Erdoğan Preparing to Shut Down the CHP?
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Prosecutors filed a 3,809-page indictment against...
Weekly Turkey Report: 1st Week of November 2025: Lower Courts Defy the Constitutional Court
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Several local courts continue to defy binding Constitutional Court...
Weekly Turkey Report: End of October 2025: Europe Embraces Erdoğan
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped global balances and increased Turkey’s value in the eyes...
Weekly Turkey Report: 3rd. Week of October 2025: “Plenty of Talk, No Real Change”
Turkey continues to sink deeper into a quagmire of economic crisis,...
Weekly Turkey Report: 2nd Week of October 2025
Summary
Turkey is showing the classic signs of “El Salvadorization”—a rapid slide into gang violence, institutional corruption, and...
Weekly Turkey Report: 1st Week of October 2025
Conflict within the Ruling Party
President Erdoğan’s visit to the United States has ended, but the controversy it...
Weekly Turkey Report: 4th Week of September 2025
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan did everything he could to please the U.S. President Donald Trump, yet he...
Weekly Turkey Report: 3rd Week of September 2025
The Republican People’s Party (CHP), facing the risk of government-appointed trustees, convened an extraordinary congress and re-elected...
Weekly Turkey Report: 2nd Week of September 2025
There is a well-known saying: “History repeats itself.” Yet a more accurate observation would be that clever...
Weekly Turkey Report: 1st Week of September
Erdoğan’s Escalating Pressure on the CHP
With the arrival of autumn, President Erdoğan has intensified his pressure and encirclement...
Weekly Turkey Report: 4th Week of August
Turkey spent another week grappling with debates over peace with the Kurds, threats against Rojava, and increasing...
Weekly Turkey Report: 3rd Week of August
Polls indicate that the public neither trusts nor supports the government’s latest “Kurdish opening.” Unlike the AKP’s first...
Weekly Turkey Report: 2nd Week of August 2025
While Turkey is trapped in a spiral of repression against the opposition, economic collapse, and the impoverishment...
Weekly Turkey Report – 1st Week of August
Under AKP rule, Turkey has experienced a moral decline while simultaneously carrying out unprecedented repression and violence...
Weekly Turkey Report: 4th Week of July
Turkey continues to flounder amid wildfires, a deepening economic crisis, corruption, and lawlessness. The state, inadequate in fighting...
Weekly Turkey Report: 3rd Week of July
As Turkey debates the potential for PKK disarmament, the ongoing civil war risk in Syria, the economic crisis,...
Weekly Turkey Report – 1st Week of July
Last week, President Erdoğan escalated efforts toward an authoritarian transformation of the regime. In a display of...
The Weekly Turkey Report: 4th Week of June
ECONOMY
Turkey is in political and economic turmoil amid the scorching summer. As emphasized in an in-depth analysis...
Weekly Turkey Report: 2nd Week of May
Türkiye continues down a turbulent path marked by internal and external unrest, an increasingly repressive regime, and deepening...
The Weekly Turkey Report: 1st Week of June
After visiting the grave of Alparslan Türkeş, founder of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), MHP leader Devlet...
The Weekly Turkey Report: The End of May
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has once again declared his intention to remain president for life. To legitimize this...
The Weekly Turkey Report: 4th Week of May.
President Erdoğan is adopting methods reminiscent of Stalin’s propaganda tactics to erase Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu—the main...
