Research desks
Türkiye
28 June 2025
Turkey’s Response to Israel-Iran War?
Türkiye has adopted diplomacy to call for de-escalation and regional dialogue. However, behind the scenes, Ankara is leveraging the crisis to advance its long-standing ambition of regional power projection, delicately balancing ideological support for Palestine with strategic distrust of Tehran. 13 June 2025 marks a seismic escalation between Israel and Iran. Israel’s “Operation Rising Lion” significantly weakened Iranian power in the Middle East.
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Middle East & North Africa
18 April 2025
Iraq’s Development Road: A Path to Regional Connectivity and Economic Growth
Iraq's Development Road Project represents one of the most ambitious infrastructure initiatives in the Middle East, aiming to establish a 1,200-kilometer transport corridor linking the Gulf to Europe via Iraq and Türkiye.
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Türkiye
4 April 2025
Hydro-Politics in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin: Turkish Policy and Post-Assad Opportunities
This report provides an in-depth analysis of the evolving hydro-political dynamics in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin in the aftermath of the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.
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Türkiye
26 March 2025
The Mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoğlu, with around 100 other key opposition politicians and businessmen to President Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) were arrested in Istanbul on 19 March. The charges against them involve alleged corruption in the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IBB) and terror charges in regards to aiding the PKK and other Kurdish groups.
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Türkiye
3 March 2025
Is Türkiye Stronger after Syria and PKK “Victories”?
Recent developments in the Middle East have poised Türkiye as a major regional power.
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Türkiye
4 January 2025
Türkiye’s Reconstruction of and Influence in Post-Assad Syria
Türkiye is the new power broker in Syria, and a regional power dynamic shift has occurred. Placing Ankara as the “key” to the new Syria. Iran has suffered a significant blow. Tehran, now in the eyes of their allies, will be perceived as weak. Tehran has lost its land bridge to “axis of resistance” allies Hezbollah, who need to rebuild after Israel’s bombardment of them but will struggle without Iran’s support via the land bridge (but there are still possibilities of the land bridge remaining intact somewhat as there are still Iranian networks in Syria).
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