Uzun yıllardır Alman arşivlerinde çalışıyorum. Almanya Cumhurbaşkanına ülkemize gelirken sorular sordum: Steinmeier ve Almanya’nın Türk aşırı sağına destek dosyaları - Yetkin Report yetkinreport.com/2024/04/21/ste…

Circulating an older piece on EU-Turkey relations with still relevant points, especially after this week's Council meeting:

A Long-Term Outlook at the EU-Turkey Relations:
Is (Strategic) Partnership under the Shadow of Strategic Autonomy Possible?

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My new article 👇 explores Turkey's shift from party to alliance-based competition since 2017. The shift, it argues, institutionalized a system of authoritarian power-sharing and a Rikerian offense on the Turkish-Kurdish cleavage to ensure AKP's survival tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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A few points on #Isfahan attack

As customary with security incidents in #Iran , reliable information about the exact nature of the attack & its damages cannot be obtained from official Iranian media. However, the extent of the attack seems to be less than initially speculated/1

Uluslararası aktörler için ('yereller' aleyhine) Türkiye'nin makroekonomik istikrarı demokratikleşme potansiyelini döver. Uluslararası ilişkilerin temel prensiplerinden biri borcunu ödeyebilen aktör olmaya devam etmektir.
100 yıllık cumhuriyet tarihimizden de bunu öğrenmediysek

3+3’ün 130. bölümünde konuğum siyaset bilimci Evren Balta 🫐. Bu yayında 31 Mart seçimi süreci ve sonuçlarına dair merak ettiklerimi işin uzmanına sordum. open.spotify.com/episode/23cGL9…

Biz Evrim Kuran ile konuşurken çok keyif aldık; konu konuyu açtı, uzun uzun konuştuk. Umarım siz de keyif alırsınız 💜

Enflasyon bu derece yüksek ve belirsiz olmasaydı, kazıkçı ve art niyetli işletme modeli de bu kadar yaygınlaşmazdı.

With all due respect this is hypocrisy. There is no single concrete proposal in #EUCO decisions for the 'development of a cooperative and mutually beneficial relationship with Türkiye'.

Regarding CYPRUS : EU has always been an observer, ask outsider to the Cyprus problem that

Recap on Israel attack on Iran so far 🇮🇱🇮🇷
• Israel launched an attack on Iran in the early hours of Friday
• US officials confirmed to news agencies that Israel hit Iran
• Iranian media said there were three explosions heard near a military base in Isfahan
• Iran suspended

Massive protests in Georgia against a Russian-style law that could be used to label political opponents as 'foreign agents'

📌🇹🇷By taking the 2019 local elections and the 2023 general elections in Turkey as the case studies, Balta and Demiralp examine the opposition coordination under the resilience of an electoral authoritarian regime.
Evren Balta 🫐 Seda Demiralp

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[READ] Journalist Barçın Yinanç delves into the recent Turkish local elections and discusses the success of women candidates for MEP's Enheduanna.

Read full article⤵️

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'When judged solely by its strategic goal from Iran’s perspective – to bolster Iranian deterrence and attempt to rewrite the rules of engagement with Israel – Iran’s attack was largely successful,' write Sanam Vakil صنم وكىل & Bilal Y Saab.

Read in full ⬇️
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Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped in 2023 in Iraq, reportedly held by Kataib Hezbollah. Her sister says Iraq’s PM holds the key to her release. “The govt is…committed to disclose the fate of that hostage” he tells me. “We will hold accountable anyone who engages in such abduction”

Hiçbiriniz insanlığın umudu değilsiniz. Ne devletiniz, ne siyasetiniz, ne onca güzelliği de katleden tarihleriniz ya da tarihlerinizin iğrençlikleriyle.

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We've seen heated debates how the Turkish opposition triumphed in 2024 local elections. In The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR, among all other hypotheses, Sultan Tepe and I argue that it was the 'shift from alliance to party-centered competition' that mattered most. theloop.ecpr.eu/opposition-tri…