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January 2026

This Day In Turkey: January

2026 Predictions

Op-ed | Hedging defined Turkish foreign policy in 2025. Next year may require a new approach.

Turkish foreign policy in Central Asia with Daria Isachenko

Wage Against The Machine

Less-400s

Russian disinformation in Turkey with Karolina Wanda Olszowska and Karol Wasilewski

What Does Your Cut Say?

Amor Nuanced Approach

Unpacking Turkey-Hungary relations with László Szerencsés

Little Aleppo’s long goodbye: Young Syrians in Adana think twice about moving ‘home’

Don't TÜIK Me Out

Don’t Take It Too Littorally

1,736 deaths and rising: What’s driving workplace fatalities in Turkey

December 2025

IMFine, You’re Fine, We’re All Fine...

A Closed Encounter Of The First Kind

Letter from the editor: Holiday sale!

Impunity and rising gun sales: What’s fueling violence against women in Turkey

It's A Stat Race Out There

Imralı The Troops

Turkey’s economy in a global context with Can Selçuki

Unaccounted: Families are still searching for people who went missing on Feb. 6, 2023

FATF Shades Of Grey

Ban's Labyrinth

What US Syria policy means for Turkey with James Jeffrey

PKK peace prospects open southeast Turkey to mining and new displacement concerns

CP-I Don’t Think We’re There Yet

Serbest Case Scenario

The next phase of Turkey-PKK peace talks with Sinem Adar

Disputes with EU states complicate Turkey’s role in defense loan program

November 2025

Dawn Of The Deal

Void Of Treason

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What’s behind the power shift in North Cyprus with Fiona Mullen

Cut Rate And Run

Back To The Drawing Border

'My existence will be illegal': LGBTQ community vilified by Turkish draft law

Israel, Gaza and US-Turkey relations with Soner Çağaptay

Fraying At The Seams

It’s A Don Deal

How Turkey’s opposition is countering state pressure with Seda Demiralp

Letter from the editor: This is what we do

The Incredulous Halk

Ain't Nothing Like The Appeal Thing

How Azerbaijan-Armenia peace talks might reshape the region with Zaur Shiriyev

Boeing For Broke

Kaan’t Touch This

Taking stock of the PKK peace talks with Burak Bilgehan Özpek

October 2025

Art Of The Ordeal

Reis-iprocity

Turkey-Cyprus Relations

What’s next for Turkey’s opposition with Arife Köse

Canal or not: Istanbul’s northern green belt is getting built over fast

Financial Grime

Never A Lull Moment

How markets rate political risk in Turkey with Wolfango Piccoli

Selective prosecution: Lawyers under pressure in Turkey’s ‘dual justice system’

Carry The Rate

Ad Halk Response

Inside the violent clashes for CHP’s Istanbul headquarters

Turkey’s democracy, Syria and the PKK peace process with Gönül Tol

Nature Of The BIST

Kayyım Full Circle

September 2025

What’s really behind falling birth rates with Neslihan Çevik

FX-Corrected

Millet Things Slide

Between containers and TOKI flats: Quake survivors await relocation in southern Turkey

Why Turkish newspapers sometimes lie with Andrew Finkel

Syrians are leaving Turkey unsure of what awaits them

CP-I Spy With My Little 👁️

Commission Accomplished

Under-equipped and overworked: Turkey’s firefighters face another daunting fire season

How Syria impacts the Turkey-PKK talks with Mohammed A. Salih

Willing And Stable

Fire Alarm

Iran-Turkey Relations

Cost of cold: Turkey's farmers face long road to recovery after late-spring frost

August 2025

Drop It Like It's Hot – Because It Is!

Your Commission, Should You Choose To Accept It

Armenia, Turkey and the Zangezur corridor with Nareg Seferian

Turkey approves bill opening olive groves, protected areas to mining

Waged Discontent

Disarmageddon

Beauty amid ruins: Hatay's women find comfort, friendship in local beauty parlors

Media and politics in 'New Turkey' with Lisel Hintz

FORTY-fied With Vitamin Kaos

C-H-Pincer Movement

Ayşe Barım's ongoing trial is seen as a 'warning' to Turkey's culture industry

Get Your TÜİK On

Straw LeMan Fallacy

Pride march arrests highlight systematic challenges for LGBTQ rights in Turkey

Unpacking Israel-Turkey relations with Gallia Lindenstrauss

July 2025

Textile A-Go-Go

Haters Gonna Hague

Russia-Turkey Relations

US-Turkey ties in a changing region with Aaron Stein

Stay or go: Istanbul’s Syrian food scene after Assad

Hold On For Dear Strife

Raising The Barrage

Children face growing hunger, poverty risks amid cost-of-living crisis in Turkey

Understanding Turkey’s political transition with Berk Esen

Rate Baiting

Do You Kemal Here Often?

Palestine-Turkey Relations

State of play in Syria with Alexander McKeever

Live now: State of play in Syria with Alexander McKeever

Papara-Normal Activity

What The Barrack Just Happened?

Infaz: What to know about Turkey’s imminent legal reforms package

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Israel-Turkey Relations

Syria-Turkey Relations

Ukraine-Turkey Relations

PKK and Turkey

Trustees appointed since the 2024 local elections

Pro-Kurdish political parties in Turkey

Turkish military ops in Syria and Iraq

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Özgür Özel

Ekrem Imamoğlu

Mansur Yavaş

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu

Selahattin Demirtaş

Meral Akşener

Sinan Oğan

June 2025

May 2025

April 2025

March 2025

February 2025

Bolly-cott

Commission Impossible

January 2025

Sick prisoners: How Turkey’s peace process might impact human rights behind bars

Gauging the PKK-Turkey peace process with Ezgi Başaran

Live now: Gauging the PKK-Turkey peace process with Ezgi Başaran

PKK Dividend

Saline Dissolution

Secret witness: How Imamoğlu and many others are incriminated in Turkey

The PKK disbands: Implications for Turkey with Selim Koru

The PKK disbands: Implications for Turkey with Selim Koru – Live now!

CP-I've Heard This One Before

Sırrı Süreyya Önder

Birth and biopolitics: The C-section debate in Turkey

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The Crux Of The Chatter

Mayday Mayday

Webcast: Turkey-Italy ties and defense cooperation

We're live: Turkey-Italy ties and defense cooperation

Italy and Turkey bolster ties with sights on European defense gaps, drone market

Webcast: Turkey-Italy ties and defense cooperation

Webcast: Sizing up CHP protests with James in Turkey - aka Michael Sercan Daventry

Mehmet The Concur-er

Yozgat A Lot Of Nerve

We're live: Sizing up CHP protests with James in Turkey - aka Michael Sercan Daventry

Training or exploitation? Inside Turkey's youth employment program

Webcast: Sizing up CHP protests with James in Turkey - aka Michael Sercan Daventry

Rate-ifying Expectations

And The Heat Goes On

​​Protesters in Turkey allege police violence, unwarranted strip searches in custody

Tariff-ic Turmoil

The Wizard of Özel

Art of the protest: How political unrest drives creativity in Turkey, past and present

Backstreet Boycotts

Put To The Protest

Webcast starts now: The road ahead for protests in Turkey

Webcast: The road ahead for protests in Turkey

Cornered but energized: Turkey’s opposition ramps up pressure for early vote

Webcast: Protests in Turkey and what to expect after Ekrem İmamoğlu's arrest

A Boykot Economy

A Mayor Setback

Op-ed | The end of competitive authoritarianism in Turkey

Our live webcast has started!

Turkey protests: Live webcast today

Street clashes to continue in Turkey’s largest protests since Gezi

Ekonoclast

İmamoğlu Detained

Transparency or surveillance? Citizen reporting tool operates in legal gray zone

Falling Out Of Flavor

The Start Of The Deal

Glaring emission: Coal use grows with higher energy needs in Turkey

Cutting Rates And Corners

Peace Of Cake

Dawn of the dead zone: Winter mucilage outbreak strangles Turkey's Marmara Sea

Shape Up-Tick

Peace And Desist

US policy shift on Ukraine boosts Turkey’s value as EU defense partner

Business Unusual

The Riot To Remain Silent

Parliament debates new cybersecurity law, raising rights concerns in Turkey

Meclis recap’ten Merhaba!

Monetary Apology 💔

The Mansurian Candidate

Syrians in Turkey’s textile sector consider repatriation. Employers might follow them.

A Kick In The Tar-gut

Getting A Sharaa Deal

Two years after the earthquakes, families pursue justice for lost loved ones

Out of space: Lack of safe zones deepens İstanbul’s earthquake risks

Op-ed | Turkey’s tightrope in post-Assad Syria

Stock Graders

Revenge Is A Radish Best Served Cold

Priced out: Working-class families struggle to pay İstanbul’s rising rents

Spill Your Cuts

One Bey Or Another

Spike in deaths unlikely to curb bootleg alcohol use in Turkey

Zamboozled

Beşiktaş Charges

Pro-creation, anti-LGBTQ: What's behind Erdoğan's 'Year of the Family' program

New Year, New MPC

A Syrian Umpire

Where ships and men come to die: Turkey’s hazardous ship-breaking industry

2025 Predictions