Hello from our new account 👋 Our original account, @TurkeyinDepth, is withheld in Turkey. This account lets our readers inside the country keep following us. Every week: 📰 Turkey's news agenda in English 🔍 Analysis beyond the polarized headlines 🌍 Politics, foreign policy, defense, economy, culture, media Request a trial subscription: t.ly/cFbk9 By @duyguguvenc @tugrul_c @barcinyinanc @shehbender @nergisdemirkaya @hakanokcal @ckfirat @NazlanEr Murat Gürgen @Paul_Osterlund

His former wife and two sons are in pretrial detention. He is not, because he is still an MP. 🔑 Portrait of the Week: Mustafa Sarıgül, the money-laundering accusations against his family, and the immunity file now waiting in parliament. turkeyindepth.com/article/13…

Of all the documents COP31 produces, the guest list may prove the most accurate. 📜 @shehbender on Ankara’s two invitations to Cyprus, and the 62-year-old question behind them. turkeyindepth.com/article/13…

Pikachu became the face of Turkey’s 2025 protests. A driver in Belgrade still remembers him. ⚡ So why do Turkish student movements run out of steam while Serbia’s built a party list? @barcinyinanc asks. turkeyindepth.com/article/13…

🇷🇸🇹🇷 Youth, protest and elections: why Serbia’s students organise and Turkey's don’t. @barcinyinanc 🌍 #COP31: one island, Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders, two invitations. @shehbender 🌼 Mustafa Sarıgül: family detained, immunity intact. Portrait of the Week turkeyindepth.com

🇨🇾 TWO LEADERS. ONE ISLAND. DIFFERENT DIPLOMATIC STATUS. Turkey's COP31 invitations to Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders reveal the contradictions of international recognition. @shehbender unpacks the history. t.ly/cFbk9

💰 $100 BILLION WIPED OFF THE MARKET. Yet Turkey's biggest fund winners remain unnamed. Why is the government keeping the list secret? Follow @tugrul_c's comprehensive Deep Dive. t.ly/cFbk9

🌍 SERBIA. INDIA. TURKEY. Three countries, three student movements—and a revealing difference in their ability to challenge entrenched power. @barcinyinanc takes readers beyond the headlines. t.ly/cFbk9

⚖️ One family. Three relatives behind bars. One politician protected by immunity. Turkey’s Mustafa Sarıgül is at the center of a widening financial investigation. Read Portrait of the Week. t.ly/cFbk9

🇹🇷 “The nation has a right to know.” Even voices close to the AKP are now demanding the list of fund winners. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan fired two top regulators, but the names stay secret. Why? t.ly/cFbk9

💵 FROM $446 MILLION IN BOND PURCHASES TO $60 MILLION IN SALES. Turkey's foreign investment flows have turned sharply. The latest market picture, compiled by @tugrul_c. t.ly/cFbk9

Parliament is stalled, but other parts of the process are not. Abdullah Öcalan has reportedly moved into new, more spacious quarters on İmralı and is shaping lists of former PKK members seeking suspended prosecution. Two speeds of the peace process → t.ly/cFbk9

What’s still missing in the peace process? A commission with a role for Abdullah Öcalan, permission for journalists to visit İmralı, and parliament’s monitoring body. DEM Party co-chairs took the list to Özgür Özel. The full list → t.ly/cFbk9

The Daltons recruit members aged 15 to 20, Turkish prosecutors say. One indictment alone charged 34 minors. Now the gang is linked to sabotage for Russian intelligence. Turkey’s “new generation mafia” → t.ly/cFbk9

Mustafa Sarıgül is 70 and on TikTok, reaching a generation that doesn’t know him. Even in his own party, few vouch for him without reservation. An unusual politician → t.ly/cFbk9

In 2020, Ottawa halted drone optics exports after Canadian sensors turned up on Turkish drones in Nagorno-Karabakh. Now Canada is interested in Turkish drones, counter-drone systems and joint ammunition production. How defense ties reversed → t.ly/cFbk9

A driver in Belgrade remembered Turkey’s student protests through one figure: the protester in a Pikachu costume. @barcinyinanc on why the costume outlasted the movement. From Pikachu to the ballot box → t.ly/cFbk9

🇹🇷 Pro-government media called it a fiasco, citing cell-tower records that placed Ekrem İmamoğlu’s phone “zero meters” from a fugitive defendant’s hundreds of times. His answer: “Ask Telekom.” Both sides of the courtroom → t.ly/cFbk9

Around 75% of Turkey’s auto plants are joint ventures with European carmakers. Leaving them out of “Made in Europe” would hit European brands too. Who really loses → t.ly/cFbk9

⚖️ EQUAL PARTNERS IN PEACE TALKS. UNEQUAL VOICES IN DIPLOMACY. Why does the world treat Cyprus's communities as equals in negotiations but not in representation? @shehbender explores the paradox for Turkey in Depth. t.ly/cFbk9

🔎 IS THE WORST OVER? Turkey's finance minister says fund redemptions have stabilized, yet foreign investors remain net sellers. @tugrul_c connects the market signals in Turkey in Depth. t.ly/cFbk9