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...
A critical development revealing the current state of Türkiye’s relations with the Turkic Republics of Central Asia must not go unnoticed.
According to a BBC...
On April 8, 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared alongside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office and made a striking public appeal:...
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...
3rd Week of February: The Judicial Whip
In February, Turkey witnessed that pressure on opposition groups was steadily increasing and that efforts to make society...
