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🔹 The next test in Turkey's Kurdish peace process may be patience. While DEM is calling for immediate legal guarantees and reintegration measures, the government is signaling that verification comes first, legislation later.
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🔹 Turkey knows how to build airports, manufacture drones and attract medical tourists. The harder question is whether it can invest with the same determination in trust, education and institutions.
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🇺🇸🇹🇷🇮🇶🇸🇾 For the first time, Washington's Iraq, Syria and Turkey files are in one person's hands. Tom Barrack calls the three "the strategic fulcrum of Middle East stability."
Washington is redrawing its Middle East map with Turkey at its center.
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🔹 Turkey's economy grew 2.5% in the first quarter, but the details are drawing attention. Consumption remains strong, while industry continues to contract and international institutions keep lowering their forecasts.

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🔹 Did Özgür Özel spoil the script?
According to figures close to the CHP leadership, the expectation was that pressure on Ekrem İmamoğlu would weaken the opposition. Instead, Özel's mobilization may have pushed the party to its strongest polling position in years.
Not just what happened — what it means:
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🔹 Ekrem İmamoğlu celebrated his 55th birthday in the courtroom, marking his second birthday behind bars. But the bigger story from week 12 of the Istanbul trial was the growing number of witnesses retracting or challenging earlier testimony.
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🔹 Could Turkey's main opposition split? Discussions of a potential new party have moved from political gossip to a scenario openly discussed by figures close to both camps.
Looking around the corner:
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🔹 NATO leaders will gather in Ankara to discuss burden-sharing, Russia and Ukraine. But the summit may also expose a deeper contradiction: can the alliance defend democratic values while overlooking democratic backsliding among its own members?
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🔹 Ekrem İmamoğlu celebrated his second birthday behind bars this week, but the more consequential development may have been inside the courtroom.
As cooperating witnesses continue to retract or challenge earlier testimony, questions are growing over the evidence underpinning one of Turkey's most consequential political trials.
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🔹 Behind every debate over congresses and signatures lies a larger question: who will lead Turkey's opposition into the next electoral cycle?
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🔹 Reha Muhtar's legacy remains contested. For some, he democratized television news. For others, he helped usher tabloid culture into the mainstream. Either way, he changed the media landscape in Turkey.
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🔹 Turkey has become remarkably good at exporting reassurance: new hairlines, new drones and new skyscrapers. But can a country build lasting prosperity on industries designed to manage insecurity?
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🔹 What if the campaign against Ekrem İmamoğlu did not weaken the CHP—but strengthened it?
@nergisdemirkaya explores why many in Özgür Özel's camp believe March 19 backfired, helping push the party's support toward levels that alarmed the ruling alliance.
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🔹 Trump's attendance may be the biggest success Ankara can secure from this year's NATO summit. The harder question is whether allies can preserve unity while adapting to a more transactional American approach.
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A new era in global defense shifts! 🇹🇷🇯🇵 Ankara and Tokyo are unlocking a massive defense partnership—from Turkish UCAVs on Japan’s destroyers to advanced minehunting tech.
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🔹 The battle for the CHP is increasingly becoming a battle over time. Özel wants a congress. Kılıçdaroğlu wants to consolidate control. Prosecutors appear to be moving on a separate clock.
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🔹 DEM wants parliament to pass a framework law for the Kurdish peace process before summer recess. Ankara appears determined to wait until PKK disarmament is fully verified before taking any legislative or political step.
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🔹 The struggle inside the CHP is moving onto multiple fronts at once: congress signatures, disciplinary boards, parliamentary immunity files and even discussions about a potential new party.
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"First we will settle accounts, then I will bring you the congress ballot box."
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu says there is no rush.
Özgür Özel wants a congress immediately.
The struggle for CHP's future has become a race over timing, rules and legitimacy.

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Özel controls the street.
Kılıçdaroğlu controls the headquarters.
The High Election Board sided with the court.
The parliamentary group is contested.
The Party Assembly is contested.
Even the next congress is contested.
Turkey's opposition has entered uncharted territory.
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