Tag: Turkey Weekly Report

Third Week Of April: You can kill someone, but you cannot erase them

Weekly Turkey Report: Third Week Of April – You can kill someone, but you cannot erase them Executive Summary: New details have emerged in the investigation into the disappearance six years ago of Gülistan Doku, a university student in Tunceli (Dersim). A confidential witness has alleged that Doku was raped, became pregnant, and was subsequently shot in the head and killed by the Governer’s...

Weekly April 19, 2026

How Trump and Netanyahu tried but failed to get the Iranian Kurds to join the US-Israel War against Iran

At the start of the now on-hold US-Israeli war against Iran on February 28, 2026, this author speculated on whether or not the United States and Israel would be able to entice the Iranian Kurds’ small, poorly armed, and divided militias numbering possibly 6-10,000 fighters—largely sheltering just across the border from Iran in northern Iraq where they had been chased years earlier by the...

C Head April 16, 2026

Tag: Turkey Weekly Report

Third Week Of April: You can kill someone, but you cannot erase them

How Trump and Netanyahu tried but failed to get the Iranian Kurds to join the US-Israel War against Iran

2nd Week of January: Peace by Beating the Kurds

1th Week of January 2026: Gülen Movement Labeled “Terrorists,” ISIS Treated as “Suspects”

4th Week of December: Erdoğan Shifts the Agenda with Drug and Betting Operations

3rd Week of December: Parties Respect the State’s Red Lines on the Kurdish Issue

2nd Week of December – Sex, Drug Allegations, and the Kurdish Question

1st Week of December: Poverty Deepens amid Contentious Kurdish Peace Debates

4th Week of November: An Öcalan Visit without Concrete Steps

3rd Week of November: Politics Rocked by Planned Öcalan Visit

2nd Week of November: Is Erdoğan Preparing to Shut Down the CHP?