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
Executive...
Weekly Turkey Report: The End of January 2026 — Turkey Blocks Aid to Kobani
Executive Summary
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
Executive Summary
Kobane once symbolized Kurdish resistance against ISIS...
Weekly Turkey Report: 3rd Week of January – Turkey Chooses the Sri Lanka Model
Executive Summary
The report argues that Ankara’s long-admired “Sri Lanka model”...
Weekly Turkey Report: 2nd Week of January 2026 – Peace by Beating the Kurds
Executive Summary
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”
Executive Summary
Turkey was shaken...
Weekly Turkey Report: 4th Week of December 2025: Erdoğan Shifts the Agenda with Drug and Betting Operations
Executive Summary
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
Executive Summary
Turkey’s main political parties continued...
Weekly Turkey Report: 2nd Week of December 2025 – Sex, Drug Allegations, and the Kurdish Question
Executive Summary
Turkey’s domestic agenda was dominated by allegations...
Weekly Turkey Report: 1st Week of December 2025 – Poverty Deepens amid Contentious Kurdish Peace Debates
Executive Summary
A new Metropoll survey confirms that the...
Weekly Turkey Report: 5th Week of November 2025 – An Öcalan Visit without Concrete Steps
Executive Summary
A parliamentary commission visited PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan...
Weekly Turkey Report: 3rd Week of November 2025 – Politics Rocked by Planned Öcalan Visit
Executive Summary
A planned parliamentary commission visit to Abdullah Öcalan...
Weekly Turkey Report: 2nd Week of November 2025 – Is Erdoğan Preparing to Shut Down the CHP?
Executive Summary
Prosecutors filed a 3,809-page indictment against...
Weekly Turkey Report: 1st Week of November 2025: Lower Courts Defy the Constitutional Court
Executive Summary
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...
The Weekly Turkey Report: 3rd Week of May
In terms of political operations, Turkey increasingly resembles a softened version of Stalin’s Russia. The regime periodically purges...
The Weekly Turkey Report: 1st Week of May
As Turkey continues to spiral into chaos and lawlessness, its economic crisis deepens further. The brief market...
The Weekly Turkey Report: 3rd Week of April
Turkey is currently focused on deciphering the social media messages of Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the Nationalist...
The Weekly Turkey Report: 1st Week of April
Following the events after March 19, one could say that Turkey experienced one of its relatively calmest...
The Weekly Turkey Report: 4th Week of March.
The arrest of Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor and Republican People's Party’s (CHP) official presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu has...
The Weekly Turkey Report: 3rd Week of March.
Turkey has just experienced a pivotal and tumultuous week, marking a clear fracture in the AKP-MHP regime....
False Peace and an Increasingly Repressive Regime
Turkey's agenda remains constant yet tense. This week’s key topics included the PKK’s disarmament, Erdoğan’s meeting with DEM...
Is the Kurdish Movement Integrating into the Regime?
Turkey has plunged into a deep debate following PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan’s call from İmralı. The key...
