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By @duyguguvenc @tugrul_c @barcinyinanc @shehbender @nergisdemirkaya @hakanokcal @ckfirat @NazlanEr Murat Gürgen @Paul_Osterlund
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🇨🇾 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
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Turkey's Kurdish process is moving on İmralı, but not in parliament. Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş has promised a monitoring commission three times since Sept. 25. It still doesn’t exist. “We are effectively in a waiting room,” says a DEM Party official.
What’s stuck, and what’s moving →
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⚡ REGIONAL SECURITY BELONGS TO THE REGION. That's the message Turkey's foreign minister plans to deliver to European powers at the R4+E3 debut. A new diplomatic balance in the making? t.ly/cFbk9
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🔴 PRINCIPLED OR PRAGMATIC? Carney promises a values-based foreign policy but publicly avoids Turkey's human rights crackdown during his Ankara visit. Is Canada's new partnership putting business first? t.ly/cFbk9
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🎓 WHY DO STUDENT MOVEMENTS FADE IN TURKEY? From Belgrade to Istanbul, @barcinyinanc examines why protests elsewhere become lasting political forces while Turkish students struggle to sustain momentum. t.ly/cFbk9
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🚨 141 PEOPLE. 73 COMPANIES. ONE SECRET LIST. Who pocketed over 100 million liras each from Turkey's fund scandal? The government still won't name them. For more: t.ly/cFbk9
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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 →
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In an age of endless channels, why seize just one? And who takes the hit when you do?
This week’s Portrait of the Week turns to Halk TV: its rise alongside AKP rule, its owner, and the staff now caught in the middle 📡
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No Canadian prime minister has ever paid a bilateral visit to Turkey. Mark Carney is about to be the first.
Trade, energy, defense on the agenda. @shehbender on “variable geometry” and whose signature will still count after the next election:
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Who reminds whom about the rule of law these days?
As the EU’s Industrial Acceleration Act threatens to shut Turkish firms out of supply chains and public tenders, Ankara is the one citing the rulebook. @barcinyinanc at the Turkey-EU business summit in Brussels:
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A slow Sunday, three considered reads:
Why Ankara says the EU must keep its word, by @barcinyinanc ⚖️
What Mark Carney’s first-of-its-kind visit tells us about middle powers, by @shehbender 🌫️
What Halk TV’s seizure means for the people inside it, in our Portrait of the Week 📺
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Police raided Halk TV, Turkey's most popular news channel, at dawn in Istanbul. Government-appointed trustees have seized control over alleged financial crimes, and the channel cut its regular broadcast and went to an ad break.
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Your Sunday reads from Turkey in Depth, free to read:
🌍 @barcinyinanc on the one word that could derail COP31
🏛 Portrait of the Week: Izmir’s mayor and a promise about his wife
📚 @shehbender on philosopher İoanna Kuçuradi
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Rebeca Grynspan's lead in the UN race is narrowing.
Ankara is watching the next straw poll before deciding whether to nominate OSCE chief Feridun Sinirlioğlu.
Turkey's strategy? Wait for the P5 to reveal their cards. t.ly/cFbk9
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🇹🇷 "THE REPUBLIC IS THE PROTECTOR OF THE UNPROTECTED."
Atatürk's famous words have acquired a new political interpretation.
Cemil Tugay says the AKP carries that legacy.
For Izmir, where Atatürk's image has long anchored opposition politics, the symbolism is striking. t.ly/cFbk9
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Meet GÜRZ.
Designed as a NATO-compatible hybrid air defense system, it combines Korkut and Hisar technologies on 6x6 and 8x8 vehicles.
Following September tests, it is expected to enter military service in 2027. t.ly/cFbk9
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🇹🇷 "THE REPUBLIC IS THE PROTECTOR OF THE UNPROTECTED."
Atatürk's famous words have acquired a new political interpretation.
Cemil Tugay says the AKP carries that legacy.
For Izmir, where Atatürk's image has long anchored opposition politics, the symbolism is striking. t.ly/cFbk9
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🔥 THE REAL TEST OF COP31 MAY NOT BE THE 35-35 TARGET.
It may be whether governments agree on where the electricity comes from.
Fossil fuel-rich states resist "clean." Others insist on it.
✍️ @barcinyinanc explains why one adjective matters so much. t.ly/cFbk9
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İoanna Kuçuradi, who died on Oct. 2 aged 89, took philosophy where it is rarely invited: ministries, prisons, police training, courtrooms. @shehbender on the questions Turkey's leading philosopher left behind. →
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👀 ONE WIFE ON STAGE. ONE MOTHER ABSENT.
Cemil Tugay once said his wife would divorce him and his mother would disown him if he joined the AKP.
His wife attended the ceremony. His mother did not.
What happened to those dramatic promises?
Portrait of the Week. t.ly/cFbk9
