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...
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...
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...
