Erdogan's War: Will Turkey's Most Powerful Leader Since Ataturk Succeed in...
By Halil M. Karaveli (vol. 4, no. 16 of the Turkey Analyst) Attacks carried out by Kurdish separatists since mid-July have set Turkey on the road to war. The Turkish government is determined to exact a...
View ArticleThe Secret MiT-PKK Talks: Was a Turkish-Kurdish Peace Accord Ever Close?
By Halil M. Karaveli (vol. 4, no. 18 of the Turkey Analyst) As the Turkish-Kurdish conflict escalates, the release of a 50-minute tape recording of a meeting between leading officials of the Turkish...
View ArticleTurkey's New Constitution: a Last Change to Solve the Kurdish Issue?
By Gareth H. Jenkins (vol. 4, no. 19 of the Turkey Analyst) On October 1, 2011, 25 deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and five pro-Kurdish independents were formally sworn in...
View ArticleThe Latest KCK Arrests: One Step Closer to Breaking Point
By Gareth H. Jenkins (vol. 4, no. 21 of the Turkey Analyst) On November 1, 2011, a court in Istanbul formally charged 23 suspects with membership of the Union of Communities of Kurdistan (KCK), an...
View ArticleReinventing a Broken Wheel: the AKP's New Kurdish Strategy
By Gareth H. Jenkins (vol. 5, no. 7 of the Turkey Analyst) On 21 March 2012, Turkish government officials began briefing trusted journalists on what they described as the new strategy of the ruling...
View ArticleValues and Identity: the Resurgence of the Kurdish Hizbullah
By Gareth H. Jenkins (vol. 5, no. 9 of the Turkey Analyst) On April 22, 2012, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the center of Diyarbakır, the largest city in the predominantly Kurdish...
View ArticleFighting Blind: the AKP's Increasingly Hardline Kurdish Policy
By Gareth H. Jenkins (vol. 5, no. 17 of the Turkey Analyst) On August 28, 2012. Selahattin Demirtaş, the co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), declared that the Kurdistan...
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The question whether or not and to what extent Turkey is going to participate in the fight against ISIS is at the center of the attention of the Turkish columnists after the release of the Turkish...
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The U.S.-led attacks against ISIS are criticized by Islamist commentators in Turkey. Ali Bulaç, a leading Islamist intellectual, writes that the attacks lack legitimacy in the eyes of the mainstream...
View ArticleYesterday's Wars: The Cause and Consequences of Turkish Inaction Against the...
By Gareth Jenkins (vol. 7, no. 18 of the Turkey Analyst) On October 7, 2014, Turkey was swept by some of the most violent civil unrest in a generation. At least 23 people were killed and hundreds...
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President Erdoğan is serious about building a mosque in Cuba and in his allegation that Muslims discovered America before Columbus, contends Fatih Yaşlı. The latest remarks of Erdoğan speak of the...
View ArticleThe AKP Uses the “Solution Process” to Suspend the Freedom of Expression
By Burak Bilgehan Özpek (vol. 7, no. 21 of the Turkey Analyst) The strategies of the Turkish state to deal with the Kurdish question has undergone a dramatic change since the 1990s, but what has...
View ArticleThe Kurdish Nationalist Movement and the Dialogue with Öcalan
By Gareth Jenkins (vol. 7, no. 22 of the Turkey Analyst) On November 29, 2014, Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) told a visiting delegation from the...
View ArticleWhat are Erdoğan’s Real Intentions in the Kurdish “Solution Process?”
By Burak Bilgehan Özpek (vol. 8, no. 5 of the Turkey Analyst) President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s bid to concentrate all power to himself has increased the skepticism and reluctance among the...
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Abdülkadir Selvi in Yeni Şafak asks what’s happening to the AKP, and warns that the spell of the party as the symbol of stability is being broken. Orhan Bursalı in Cumhuriyet writes that the exposure...
View ArticleBattles and Wars: Bracing for Erdoğan’s Long Goodbye
By Gareth Jenkins (vol. 8, no. 6 of the Turkey Analyst) On March 20, 2015, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan publicly criticized the announcement by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)...
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İbrahim Karagül, the editor in chief of Yeni Şafak, writes that AKP’s enemies in the West, the Fethullah Gülen fraternity, big business in Turkey and the “Gezi saboteurs” have formed an alliance to...
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Yetvart Danzikyan in Agos writes that at the centenary of the genocide Armenians in Turkey are still faced with denial, and live under the threat of being deported. Markar Esayan in Yeni Şafak,...
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The question whether or not and to what extent Turkey is going to participate in the fight against ISIS is at the center of the attention of the Turkish columnists after the release of the Turkish...
View ArticleThe Kurdish Surge in Turkey’s Election: A Boost in Backing for the PKK
By Aliza Marcus (vol. 8, no. 12 of the Turkey Analyst) Kurdish voters abandoned the ruling AKP in Turkey's national elections, propelling the Kurdish HDP into parliament and giving Kurdish nationalist...
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