Using The Kurds Again: Will the Iranian Kurds Enter The Iran War on The Side of The United States and Israel?
The United States has a long record of using the Kurds as auxiliaries when fighting against its enemies in the Middle East. The formula is deceptively simple. Promise the Kurds their autonomy or even independence if they will support the U.S. Usually this...
To understand the stance of Turkey’s political class and society regarding the attacks on Iran, two main points must be examined: the fact that Turkey’s secularist circles were raised within an anti-imperialist discourse, and the Palestinian and Islamic sensitivities of the political Islamists. Additionally, both groups share a common sentiment: the belief that the United States and the West are trying to divide Turkey,...
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...
