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The Enshittification of Politics and the Hope We Find
As the year ends, a reflection on the global degradation of politics and the choices it leaves us with.
Dec 23, 2025
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Ezgi Basaran
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Books to Gift the Temperamentally Political
A short winter list for readers who see the world in layers rather than headlines. These are books that travel well across arguments, histories, and…
Dec 22, 2025
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Ezgi Basaran
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War of Succession in Turkey, Vol. 2: Sex, Drugs, and the Politics of Power
The arrest of a pro-gov media figure offers a window into elite factionalism, intelligence rivalries, and a looming war of succession in Turkey.
Dec 16, 2025
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Ezgi Basaran
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How to See the Current Sectarianism in Syria
A year after Assad, Syria lives between relief and fear, old wounds and new uncertainties. How was sectarianism was made, why it persists and what it…
Dec 10, 2025
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Ezgi Basaran
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The emerging shape of the Kurdish process vis à vis Turkey, Syria and Israel
This week, I bring together the latest developments in Turkey’s Kurdish negotiation process. These include the talks with Damascus and Israel’s evolving…
Dec 4, 2025
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Ezgi Basaran
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November 2025
An American imam and a British sheikh on Islam and capitalism; the Brotherhood’s terror designation; mysterious UAE spies in Turkey
Three angles for the week. The conversation on Islam and capitalism, the push to brand Brotherhood branches as terrorists, and the strange case of the…
Nov 27, 2025
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Ezgi Basaran
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How al-Sharaa’s Syria May Work with the Turkish Toolkit
Syria’s govt draws on the AKP’s mode of development and control. This frame shows how Islamist praxis adapts when survival requires efficient…
Nov 19, 2025
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Ezgi Basaran
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The players of 'the biggest game in town': Trump, Sharaa, Erdogan, Netanyahu, and the Kurds
At the White House, Sharaa’s meeting with Trump redrew the lines of advantage. Some emerged stronger, while others were left unsettled in their own…
Nov 13, 2025
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Ezgi Basaran
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Oxford Union and the Debate on the Ottoman Empire’s Demise
This week, after my italic introduction, a prominent Turkish intellectual Dr Cengiz Aktar shares his encounter with the Oxford Union and his regret over…
Nov 6, 2025
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Ezgi Basaran
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October 2025
The successes of Erdogan abroad and unhappiness it conceals at home
It is realpolitik in its purest form. The bitter irony is that the Palestinians, and even the people of Turkey, remain excluded from its rewards.
Oct 29, 2025
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Ezgi Basaran
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All Eyes on These Two Turkish Men: Hakan Fidan v. Ibrahim Kalın
Too many tributes, too many comparisons, too many convenient stories about Turkey's FM Fidan and spy chief Kalın. Therefore, I believe, several dynamics…
Oct 22, 2025
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Ezgi Basaran
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When Sisi, Erdoğan and Netanyahu are flattered this way...
The ceasefire brought scenes of relief and reunion. Then came the performance of power. The 'theatre of peace' at Sharm el-Sheikh told another story.
Oct 15, 2025
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Ezgi Basaran
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