Share What Is Behind Turkish President Erdogan’s Leading A Boycott Against France? Guney Yildiz ContributorLeadership Strategy This ‘cultural war’ between Turkey and France is not about culture. It...Read More Forbes Analysis Oct 28
Share The Kurdish Movement’s Disparate Goals and the Collapse of the Peace Process with Turkey By: Guney Yildiz The Kurdish movement in Turkey has three stated objectives: to achieve a resolution of the...Read More Merip.org Analysis Aug 15
Share How (and Why) Turkey Strengthened Its Grip on Libya Despite Covid-19 | ISPI Guney Yildiz – 1 June 2020 The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic did not stop Turkey from doubling...Read More ISPIonline.it Analysis Jun 1
Share The US pushes for Kurdish unity in Syria with Turkish hostility and future Syria talks in mind Guney Yildiz – 4 May 2020 Washington has increased its efforts to push for unity among...Read More MEI Analysis May 4
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Share How Russia and Turkey sidelined Europe on Libya January 17, 2020 Guney Yildiz The Berlin Conference on Libya will be a crucial test of...Read More MEI Analysis Jan 17
Share Cease-fires in Idlib and Libya as Turkey looks to buy time Russia and Turkey agreed to a cease-fire in Syria’s war-torn Idlib Province between the Ankara-supported rebels...Read More MEI Analysis Jan 13
Share President Erdogan Unlikely to Concede on S-400 Unless the US Commits to Crippling Sanctions Ankara enjoys a strong partnership with both Washington and Moscow and uses each of these relations...Read More Analysis Nov 15
Share Anatomy of the Turkish Incursion The Turkish offensive into Kurdish-led northern Syria began on October 9 and ended with a deal...Read More Analysis Nov 11
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Share Russian-Turkish border deal on Syria holds, but the Western response is muddled Nearly a week on, the Russian-Turkish deal for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to withdraw...Read More Analysis Oct 28
Share Assassinations could upset the status quo in Turkey-PKK conflict Despite the fiery rhetoric, the long-time conflict between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has...Read More Analysis Aug 6
Share Turkish media and the art of signaling Guney Yildiz If you’ve read the Turkish media in the past week, you might conclude that...Read More Analysis Jul 15
Share Opposition claims decisive win in Istanbul rerun Guney Yildiz It is harder for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to recover from a double election...Read More Analysis Jun 24
Share Kurdistan: A State or a State of Mind? Guney Yildiz Can the Kurds, the largest ethnicity in the Middle East without their own nation,...Read More Analysis Apr 22