The balance of Trump’s affections has changed, to Netanyahu’s detriment and Erdogan’s (unstable and likely temporary) gain, but let’s not go overboard.

GEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics@geopolist.bsky.social · last wk.

1- …Netanyahu presented Trump with a map of Syria that showed that the areas Turkey controls in Syria "are 50 times larger" than the areas Israel occupies, the Israeli official said. The Israeli official claimed Turkey controls 5% of Syria while Israel controls 0.1%. www.axios.com/2026/07/29/i...

1- …Netanyahu presented Trump with a map of Syria that showed that the areas Turkey controls in Syria "are 50 times larger" than the areas Israel occupies, the Israeli official said. The Israeli official claimed Turkey controls 5% of Syria while Israel controls 0.1%. www.axios.com/2026/07/29/i...

Inside Bibi's pivotal White House meeting with Trump

The two exchanged views on next steps in the Iran war.

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GEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics@geopolist.bsky.social · 3w ago

As Israel Becomes a Liability, Turkey Becomes Indispensable: Baniyas Marks the Latest Shift geopolist.com/as-israel-be...

2-…Unlike the Israeli occupation in southern Syria, Turkish military presence in northern Syria is taking place today at the consent and invitation of the Syrian government, a U.S. official said…”

1- The risk of confusion may not end with the parties already eligible to appear on the ballot. Erdoğan and the governing bloc would have every incentive to turn the word Yeni into a small political industry. 👇

News About Turkey-NAT@newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yeni, Yeniden, Yenilik: Turkey’s Proliferating Party Names Built Around “New” May Confuse Voters newsaboutturkey.com/2026/07/24/y...

2- By election day, voters might therefore find themselves choosing among Yeni Parti, Daha Yeni Parti (Newer Party), En Yeni Parti (Newest Party) and perhaps even Gerçek Yeni Parti (Real New Party). The joke almost writes itself, but the danger is real.

1- "...More importantly, Yeni Parti still appears detached from the practical realities of Turkish society. The old CHP mentality remains visible: leaders seem to assume that voters will immediately understand the split, recognize the new party and transfer their support without difficulty.

News About Turkey-NAT@newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yeni, Yeniden, Yenilik: Turkey’s Proliferating Party Names Built Around “New” May Confuse Voters newsaboutturkey.com/2026/07/24/y...

2-... the word Yeni appears in the names of several political parties and movements, some voters—especially elderly citizens, people with limited literacy or those who do not closely follow political developments—may accidentally vote for a different party containing the same word..."

"...Özgür Özel may have had compelling reasons to leave the CHP after losing its leadership through a court ruling. But establishing another party in Turkey’s already crowded political field—and calling it simply the “New Party”—raises a separate question: was this really the best choice?.."👇

News About Turkey-NAT@newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yeni, Yeniden, Yenilik: Turkey’s Proliferating Party Names Built Around “New” May Confuse Voters newsaboutturkey.com/2026/07/24/y...

Yeni, Yeniden, Yenilik: Turkey’s Proliferating Party Names Built Around “New” May Confuse Voters newsaboutturkey.com/2026/07/24/y...

Yeni, Yeniden, Yenilik: Turkey’s Proliferating Party Names Built Around “New” May Confuse Voters

Özgür Özel may have had compelling reasons to leave the CHP after losing its leadership through a court ruling. But establishing another party in Turkey’s already crowded political field—and calling i...

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1-"...No party leadership installed through judicial intervention can automatically claim democratic superiority. But the departure of the Özel bloc may nevertheless create an unexpected opportunity for the reduced CHP. Some of the most combative, leader-centred and hard-nationalist personalities...

News About Turkey-NAT@newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 2w ago

A New Party Without a New Beginning: The Same Faces Behind a New Name newsaboutturkey.com/2026/07/24/a...

2-...have left. The remaining party may now have greater room to develop a clearer social-democratic, parliamentary and institutionally liberal identity..."

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1- When nobody in Turkey’s political commentariat was discussing İbrahim Kalın as Erdoğan’s possible successor, we identified him almost a year ago as the most credible non-family candidate. We also published a detailed analysis after that titled “İbrahim Kalın: geopolist.com/ibrahim-kali...

İbrahim Kalın: Erdoğan’s Most Geopolitically Credible Successor

Turkey’s impending leadership transition is as much a geopolitical pivot as a domestic power shift. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s long rule (over two decades) has centralized authority in him and h...

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News About Turkey-NAT@newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 12mo ago

In Erdoğan’s Turkey, the only non-family figure who could realistically succeed him is İbrahim Kalın. Trusted aide, intelligence chief, with a solid grasp of foreign policy, academic seriousness, and fluency in global institutions & diplomatic discourse. Will the family let him?

2-...Erdoğan’s Most Geopolitically Credible Successor.” Kalın’s name is now moving from the margins into the centre of Turkey’s succession debate. Mehmet Metiner, a longtime AKP figure and former parliamentarian, has now written:

3- “Everyone should carefully note the name of our MİT President, Prof. Dr. İbrahim Kalın. That is all for now. We will speak when the process reaches its conclusion.”

A New Party Without a New Beginning: The Same Faces Behind a New Name newsaboutturkey.com/2026/07/24/a...

A New Party Without a New Beginning: The Same Faces Behind a New Name

Özgür Özel’s departure from the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Republican People’s Party, CHP) and the establishment of Yeni Parti (New Party) have been presented as a moment of democratic renewal. Followin...

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a- PJAK Executive Council member Siamand Moeini alleges that Turkey is seeking to turn Iran’s ethnic Azerbaijanis against the country’s Kurdish population. He warns that, if successful, this policy could trigger large-scale ethnic conflict, displace millions and produce a regional tragedy of ...👇

GEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics@geopolist.bsky.social · 5mo ago

5-...morph into Kurd–Azeri (Iranian Turk) communal friction, because the terrain is demographically contested rather than cleanly Kurdish-majority. In that kind of chaos, Turkey—potentially alongside Azerbaijan—could justify a safe-zone/corridor logic reminiscent of previous theaters,...

b- ....immense proportions. 👇 www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

PJAK leader mocks Iran’s claim Turkey spiked US Kurdish-backed regime-change plan

The PJAK co-leader says he does not believe Washington or Israel would abandon a strategic objective as significant as toppling Iran's government because of Turkish objections.

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5- He goes even further, claiming that information from Gülenists inside Turkey is limited and that foreign intelligence agencies provide more valuable intelligence to those publishing critical reports about these circles and the Erdoğan government.👇

News About Turkey-NAT@newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 2w ago

4- Özkan then continues his fabrications by claiming that Gülenists are living in so-called “liberated regions,” particularly in Britain, Germany, the United States and parts of Africa, including Zanzibar and its surrounding areas.👇

4- Özkan then continues his fabrications by claiming that Gülenists are living in so-called “liberated regions,” particularly in Britain, Germany, the United States and parts of Africa, including Zanzibar and its surrounding areas.👇

News About Turkey-NAT@newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 2w ago

3-...their future strength. It exposes the fear that these circles still carry.

1- Everything said by Tuncay Özkan, one of the leading propagandists of the Ergenekon terrorist organization (ETO), in his interview with fellow ETO sympathizer Fatih Altaylı is fabricated—from the claim that Germany granted citizenship or asylum to 450,000 Gülenists to the alleged response...

2- ...attributed to Angela Merkel. According to this invented account, Merkel supposedly said that Germany had accepted them because they had been extremely powerful in the past and would become powerful again in the future. The only truthful and revealing element is this admission concerning...

3-...their future strength. It exposes the fear that these circles still carry.

5- In February 2025, journalist and YouTuber @nevsinmengutv.bsky.social received a suspended 15-month prison sentence for an online interview she conducted with Salih Muslim in December 2024—an interview she had to remove only 20 minutes after publishing it. Muslim was a political figure, not an...

News About Turkey-NAT@newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 3w ago

4- ...it could, saying they would hear positive and persuasive messages from Öcalan. This makes clear that Çakır is acting not merely as a journalist, but as part of a broader effort to rehabilitate the public image of Öcalan and other senior PKK leaders in line with MİT’s political strategy.

6-...armed PKK commander. Yet @rusencakir.bsky.social was permitted to travel to the Qandil Mountains, where the PKK is based, and conduct an in-person interview with Duran Kalkan, a senior PKK leader. The PKK remains officially designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey and numerous other...

7-...countries, while Kalkan remains wanted by Turkish authorities for his activities within the organization. 👇 newsaboutturkey.com/2025/08/21/4...

MİTyascope? How Ruşen Çakır Became the Media Arm of Turkish Intelligence

Ruşen Çakır is often presented as a sharp

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1-"...In the emerging order, American hegemony depends increasingly on NATO cohesion, resilient energy routes, access to Central Asia, stability in Syria and Iraq and the ability to compete with China and Russia without appearing permanently hostile to the populations of the Middle East...👇

GEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics@geopolist.bsky.social · 3w ago

As Israel Becomes a Liability, Turkey Becomes Indispensable: Baniyas Marks the Latest Shift geopolist.com/as-israel-be...

2-...Netanyahu’s Israel obstructs many of those objectives. Turkey is central to nearly all of them..."

As Israel Becomes a Liability, Turkey Becomes Indispensable: Baniyas Marks the Latest Shift geopolist.com/as-israel-be...

As Israel Becomes a Liability, Turkey Becomes Indispensable: Baniyas Marks the Latest Shift

Israel’s Cold War value rested on its ability to contain Soviet-backed Arab governments. That strategic environment has disappeared. Today, Netanyahu’s wars are damaging American legitimacy and obstru...

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...primarily as a shameful military intervention...👇

News About Turkey-NAT@newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 3w ago

1- For decades, the Turkish state glorified the May 27, 1960 military coup. Its anniversary was celebrated as an official holiday, and schools, streets, and public institutions were named after it. Eventually, the holiday was abolished, the names were removed, and May 27 came to be remembered...