Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026On February 28, 2022, we also outlined three possible consequences of sustained Western support for Ukraine. Our assessment today: Assad’s fall materialized; the weakening of Iran and China is only partly borne out; Russia’s internal fragmentation remains a process to watch.👇 032
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In the first days of the war, we warned that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could leave Assad exposed. His dependence on Moscow meant a prolonged war could divert the military resources sustaining his regime, creating an opening for renewed conflict in Syria. 062
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Erdoğan, seven years ago: 1- “Saudi Arabia should look in the mirror. Who brought Yemen to this state? What condition is Yemen in today? Haven’t tens of thousands of people died there? Saudi Arabia must first answer for this. Yemen is now living in poverty and deprivation....👇 232
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 21/09/20262-...You have razed the entire country to the ground.” geopolist.com/yemen-could-...geopolist.comYemen Could Become the First Test of the Turkey–Pakistan–Saudi Defense PactThe Houthi advance toward Bab el-Mandeb and renewed attacks on Saudi territory have created the first serious challenge for the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement. The question is not simply whether Turke... 032
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026On September 19, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Turkey was prepared to support Saudi Arabia under the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement. Speaking to NTV, he said Ankara could help meet Saudi military needs, particularly in technical areas.👇 033
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 14/09/20261- On the very day Yeni Parti was founded in July, we warned that the proliferation of “Yeni,” “Yeniden” and “Yenilik” party names could create voter confusion and weaken political identity. Now, reports say Yargıtay had also cautioned Yeni Parti that its name could face problems...👇 162
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 14/09/20262-...because of its similarity to Yenilik Partisi.👇 serbestgorus.com/2026/09/iddi...serbestgorus.comİDDİA | Yargıtay uyardı, YENİ Parti’de isim değişikliği olabilirYENİ Parti’nin adının, Yenilik Partisi ile benzerliği nedeniyle Yargıtay tarafından uyarıldığı öne sürüldü. Gazeteci Fatih Atik, parti yönetimine kuruluş 032
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 11/09/20261-"...The most revealing response, however, came from Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif, who said on September 8 that if the Yemen conflict spilled over into Saudi Arabia, the collective-defense commitment under the Makkah agreement could come into operation.👇 132
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 11/09/20262-...Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry then stated on September 10 that no military response under the pact was being discussed at that stage..." 043
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Yemen Could Become the First Test of the Turkey–Pakistan–Saudi Defense Pact geopolist.com/yemen-could-...geopolist.comYemen Could Become the First Test of the Turkey–Pakistan–Saudi Defense PactThe Houthi advance toward Bab el-Mandeb and renewed attacks on Saudi territory have created the first serious challenge for the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement. The question is not simply whether Turke... 173
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 07/09/20261- "...At the same time, the political objective presented in the interview is not Kurdish separation from the Ottoman state. Instead, he envisages the intellectual advancement of Kurdistan contributing to a shared political homeland... 132
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 07/09/20262-...The combination complicates attempts to fit the young Said Nursi neatly into either a later Turkish nationalist framework or a modern Kurdish separatist one..." 👇 1908 Said Nursi Interview Reveals a Vision of Constitutionalism, Kurdish Education, Religious Equality and a Shared Homelandnewsaboutturkey.com1908 Said Nursi Interview Reveals a Vision of Constitutionalism, Kurdish Education, Religious Equality and a Shared HomelandA French-language interview with Said Nursi published in 1908 sheds light on the Kurdish Islamic scholar’s early political thinking, showing him defending constitutional government, equality regardles... 042
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nursi went further than simply accepting the Constitution as a political necessity. He presented constitutional equality as compatible with religion itself. Asked directly whether he accepted constitutional government, he answered: “It is recommended to us by our religion; therefore it is good.”👇 084
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 07/09/20261- "...The creation of Özgür Özel’s Yeni Parti does not necessarily eliminate that space...not necessarily the answer to every voter located between Erdoğan’s bloc, Turkish nationalism, the traditional social-democratic electorate and Kurdish identity politics..."👇 232
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 07/09/20262-"...And if that produces a second political pole around Demirtaş, the result may be more consequential than a simple division of Kurdish politics. Öcalan could emerge as the de facto leader of the post-PKK movement while simultaneously creating the conditions for Demirtaş to attempt, once again,.. 132
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 07/09/20263-..something larger: turning a political current born from the Kurdish question into a democratic movement competing for Turkey itself." 032
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 07/09/20261908 Said Nursi Interview Reveals Support for Constitutionalism, Kurdish Education and Religious Equality newsaboutturkey.com/2026/09/07/1...newsaboutturkey.com1908 Said Nursi Interview Reveals Support for Constitutionalism, Kurdish Education and Religious EqualityA French-language interview with Said Nursi published in 1908 sheds light on the Kurdish Islamic scholar’s early political thinking, showing him defending constitutional government, equality regardles... 033
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Our Forecast Is Taking Shape: Öcalan Is Redefining Kurdish Politics — Could Demirtaş Transform Turkish Politics? newsaboutturkey.com/2026/09/07/o...newsaboutturkey.comOur Forecast Is Taking Shape: Öcalan Is Redefining Kurdish Politics — Could Demirtaş Transform Turkish Politics?On May 20, News About Turkey (NAT) argued that the new Kurdish process unfolding in Turkey was about considerably more than ending the armed campaign of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). 042
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Turkey’s Growth Slows to Six-Year Low as Hunger Line Climbs Far Above Minimum Wage newsaboutturkey.com/2026/08/31/t...newsaboutturkey.comTurkey’s Growth Slows to Six-Year Low as Hunger Line Climbs Far Above Minimum WageTurkey’s economic growth slowed to its weakest annual pace in six years in the second quarter of 2026, while newly released cost-of-living figures showed that millions of households are facing basic f... 062
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Too Useful Against Iran to Disarm? The PJAK Exception 👇 geopolist.com/too-useful-a...geopolist.comToo Useful Against Iran to Disarm? The PJAK ExceptionSince Abdullah Öcalan’s February 2025 call, the PKK has dissolved, Turkey has created a legal framework for disarmament and reintegration, and the SDF has surrendered its independent military existenc... 052
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 29/08/20262-...of a wider front involving Azerbaijani/Turkic and other Iranian opposition currents. It is against this background that the controversial 2026 İmralı notes become interesting. Texts circulated in August purporting to record Öcalan’s July 20 and August 2 meetings attributed extraordinarily... 142
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 29/08/20261-"...If another major confrontation with Iran arrives, PJAK could become far more important than it is today: a military nucleus for Iranian Kurdish opposition, a destination for selected experienced cadres from the former PKK and Syrian Kurdish military tradition, and potentially one component...👇 152
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 29/08/20263-....explicit comments about Iran and PJAK to him. Öcalan was represented as arguing that Iran could not simply be left as it was, comparing the Iranian order with Syria approaching the end of an era, and proposing a regional initiative involving Iraqi Kurdish leaders and PJAK. The text did not... 142
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 29/08/20264-...describe PJAK as another structure that should simply disappear. It attributed to Öcalan the idea that PJAK should be transformed and brought onto a different political line, with Turkey potentially playing a positive regional role..." 042
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Too Useful Against Iran to Disarm? The PJAK Exception geopolist.com/too-useful-a...geopolist.comToo Useful Against Iran to Disarm? The PJAK ExceptionSince Abdullah Öcalan’s February 2025 call, the PKK has dissolved, Turkey has created a legal framework for disarmament and reintegration, and the SDF has surrendered its independent military existenc... 142
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026a- "...Selçuk Bayraktar, Erdoğan’s son-in-law, has repeatedly been singled out by Ash as one of the most impressive figures in contemporary Turkey...Elsewhere, he called Bayraktar “Turkey’s Elon Musk” and predicted that he would be an exceptionally strong presidential candidate if he ever entered...newsaboutturkey.comTimothy Ash Predicted the Backlash — But Did His Erdoğan Remark Reveal More Than a Slip?The British economist immediately withdrew Erdoğan’s name after invoking an era of “sociopathic leaders.” His subsequent explanation was that it was simply a slip of the tongue. But Ash’s long record ... 132
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026b-... electoral politics...again identified Bayraktar as a credible technocratic presidential successor... Then came another remarkable development. Only hours after the investigation became public, Ash announced that he had been informed that Turkish authorities had closed it..." 032
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Timothy Ash Predicted the Backlash — But Did His Erdoğan Remark Reveal More Than a Slip? newsaboutturkey.com/2026/08/28/t...newsaboutturkey.comTimothy Ash Predicted the Backlash — But Did His Erdoğan Remark Reveal More Than a Slip?The British economist immediately withdrew Erdoğan’s name after invoking an era of “sociopathic leaders.” His subsequent explanation was that it was simply a slip of the tongue. But Ash’s long record ... 033
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The Israeli propaganda machine is becoming almost comically self-contradictory. First, the Mecca pact was sold as a terrifying “Sunni axis” led by Turkey and backed by nuclear Pakistan. Now we are told that Shi'a Iran may join it. 142
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026a- On 20 December 2024, immediately after Assad’s fall, we argued that Israel would increasingly seek to portray Turkey as the successor threat to Iran in Syria. Now JINSA writes: “Israel has worried that al-Sharaa simply replaces the Iranian threat in Syria with a Turkish one.” 142
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026b- In fact, Turkey has not objectively “replaced Iran.” Rather, Israel is increasingly presenting Turkey as the replacement threat because that narrative serves its strategic interests in post-Assad Syria. 232
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026c- -Our December analysis identified precisely this emerging construction—before it became fashionable in Israeli and Washington strategic circles.👇 032
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 22/08/20261-"...The reciprocal political utility became remarkably explicit on the eve of Abu al-Duhur. One day before the strike, Likud campaign material in Tel Aviv displayed Erdoğan alongside Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, with a... 132
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 22/08/20262-...message telling Israeli voters that these figures wanted Netanyahu defeated and should not be allowed to “win.”... 032
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 21/08/20261- "...Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani says Damascus had already informed Israel before the attack that there was no intention to establish a permanent Turkish base at Abu al-Duhur, no plan for a permanent Turkish troop presence and no plan to transfer control of the facility to Ankara...👇 142
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 21/08/20262-...Reuters reported that Mossad director Roman Gofman and al-Shaibani spoke on August 14 about Turkish deployments, weapons and drones, while al-Shaibani told Axios that Syria had explained the nature of the rehabilitation work and made clear that the facility would remain Syrian..." 032
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Netanyahu’s Perfect Assist from Abu al-Duhur: How Erdoğan Can Score on Kurdish Peace and National Discontent geopolist.com/netanyahus-p...geopolist.comNetanyahu’s Perfect Assist from Abu al-Duhur: How Erdoğan Can Score on Kurdish Peace and National DiscontentThe Israeli attack on Syria’s Abu al-Duhur airbase on August 18 initially presented itself as another episode in Israel’s widening campaign to preserve military freedom of action in post-Assad Syria. ... 044
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Turkey at a Crossroads: The End of Erdoğan’s Economic Contract and the Beginning of Dynastic Autocracy 👇 newsaboutturkey.com/2025/04/08/t...newsaboutturkey.comTurkey at a Crossroads: The End of Erdoğan’s Economic Contract and the Beginning of Dynastic AutocracyOne of the clearest signs that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has abandoned democratic accountability and embraced full autocracy is his quiet yet deliberate retreat from the economic populism that on... 063
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 19/08/20261-"...Erdoğan no longer believes ordinary electoral dissatisfaction threatens his power in the same way it once did..., ... economic problems affect conservative voters as much as secular voters. Erdoğan cannot satisfy all of their economic demands. He cannot return the purchasing power destroyed... 152
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 19/08/20262-....over several years, dramatically lower rents, increase every pension and wage to match expectations and simultaneously stabilize the economy..." 042
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 19/08/20261-"...Erdoğan’s evolving relationship with religious constituencies cannot be separated from his experience with elections. The conventional democratic assumption is that a ruler facing dissatisfied conservative voters must negotiate with religious communities because every bloc of votes matters.👇 232
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 19/08/20262-One reason may be that Turkey’s recent electoral history has taught him that elections can be controlled, distorted or effectively stolen in several different ways..." 032
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 19/08/20261-"...The lead image above (below) almost speaks for itself. It shows Alparslan Kuytul being escorted by police and his wife, Semra Kuytul, being taken into custody by a female police officer who herself wears a headscarf. The symbolism is striking. During the February 28 era and the late 1990s,...👇 123
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 19/08/20262-...Turkey repeatedly saw images of secular-looking female police officers, university officials and other female representatives of the state confronting, harassing, detaining or physically removing headscarved conservative women in the name of the secular order. Today, the image is almost... 133
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 19/08/20263-...the reverse: a headscarved female police officer is now the representative of state power taking another headscarved conservative woman into custody..." 033
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Is February 28 Returning Under an Islamist President? newsaboutturkey.com/2026/08/19/i...newsaboutturkey.comIs February 28 Returning Under an Islamist President?Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rose to power promising to liberate Turkey’s religious conservatives from state tutelage. More than two decades later, the destruction of the Gülen movement, the operations agains... 043
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 18/08/20261- Erdoğan’s mother, Tenzile, was buried beside Süleyman Hilmi Tunahan—the tomb seen in the photo—founder of the Süleymancı tradition, reportedly in accordance with her own wish. Erdoğan later had his father’s remains moved there so that his parents would rest together beside Tunahan, despite his 152
Reposted by Serbest GörüşNews About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 18/08/20262- problematic relationship with his father. Erdoğan himself may ultimately have expected to be buried in the same family plot, next to his parents and therefore beside Tunahan. Yet today his government is turning against Tunahan’s religious community and determined to break its institutional power. 042
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 16/08/20261- "Then came a development that is central to understanding everything that followed: on July 22, the U.S. State Department formally told Congress that Turkey still had not met the legal conditions necessary to receive the F-35. Less than two weeks later, on August 3, the State Department notified 252
Reposted by Serbest GörüşGEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social · 16/08/20262- ...Congress that Turkey wanted authorization to transfer a large package of older U.S.-origin weapons from its own military stocks to Ukraine: 12 M270 multiple-launch rocket systems, 70 M39 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles, 2,524 M26 227-mm rockets and 47,000 M509A1 203-mm artillery shells..." 142