Weekly Turkey Report: Second Week of January 2026 - CHP in Silivri
Executive Summary
The CHP held its weekly parliamentary group meeting in Silivri, site of the Marmara Closed Penal Institution where the 402-defendant İBB trial is being heard — including Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor and presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu, one of 106 people currently in pretrial detention.
Ahead of the hearing, the Silivri District...
The dramatic escalation of tensions in the Middle East in recent years has renewed interest in a long-standing question: how should Iran’s foreign policy be understood? Is the behavior of the Islamic Republic driven primarily by revolutionary ideology and religious fervor, or does it reflect deeper geopolitical and historical forces that shape the Iranian state's strategic outlook regardless of regime type?
Two influential works provide...
