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6 days ago | 
turkiyetoday.com | Enes Kilic
US President Donald Trump giving an address about US strikes on Iran, 21 June 2025. (AFP Photo) United States President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the U.S. conducted a "very successful attack" on three nuclear sites in Iran, targeting facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. Trump stated, "All planes are safely on their way home.
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1 week ago | 
turkiyetoday.com | Enes Kilic
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) receives Armanian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at Dolmabahce Presidential Office in Istanbul, Türkiye on June 20, 2025. (Turkish Presidency / AA Photo) Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on June 20 in what appears to be the most consequential bilateral contact since the two countries began tentative normalization efforts more than two years ago.
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1 week ago | 
turkiyetoday.com | Enes Kilic
Türkiye’s young candidates face structural barriers in local politics In Türkiye’s 2024 local elections, only eight young mayors were elected. Although many political parties in Ankara highlight the importance of young voices, recent research suggests that youth participation in formal politics remains heavily constrained.
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3 weeks ago | 
turkiyetoday.com | Enes Kilic
The Syrian Civil War’s aftermath has left the Kurdish northeast in a hazardous limbo, where the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its affiliates continue to obstruct genuine Kurdish representation. This policy brief argues that the international community’s reliance on the PYD/SDF is strategically flawed, empowering an authoritarian entity rooted in PKK ideology and alienating key regional stakeholders.
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3 weeks ago | 
turkiyetoday.com | Enes Kilic
Press members, in Mecca for the 2025 Hajj Organization, visit the International Prophet Biography Museum, which is a tour organized by the General Organization for Press Regulation, in Saudi Arabia on May 28, 2025. (AA Photo) Türkiye’s Parliament has taken a significant step in altering the balance between state and religion by approving a bill that grants the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) sweeping authority over Quran translations.
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1 month ago | 
turkiyetoday.com | Enes Kilic
President Erdogan speaks during a press conference with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez following the 8th high-level meeting, on 13 June 2024. (Photo: AA) A high-level diplomatic meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Istanbul on Friday has highlighted the remarkably strong bilateral relationship between the two Mediterranean nations.
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1 month ago | 
turkiyetoday.com | Enes Kilic
On May 14, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set his sights on what his party officials are calling "almost unlimited authority" wielded by mayors across Türkiye, signaling a fundamental overhaul that critics view as the next battleground in the nation's ongoing cultural war.
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1 month ago | 
turkiyetoday.com | Enes Kilic
U.S. President Donald Trump left for Saudi Arabia on Monday, calling his Middle East trip "historic." The tour includes Qatar and the UAE, with business deals on the agenda, as well as discussions on regional issues, including Gaza, Iran and Yemen Emily Milliken, Yemen expert and associate director at the Atlantic Council’s N7 Initiative, stated, “I fully expect the Yemen file to be high on the priority list during Trump’s upcoming Gulf agenda, especially in meetings with U.S. partners like...
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1 month ago | 
turkiyetoday.com | Enes Kilic
On May 4, Republican People's Party's (CHP) leader Ozgur Ozel was assaulted with a slap following a ceremony held for Sirri Sureyya Onder at Türkiye’s newest cultural center AKM. Ozel was escorted away from the area by security personnel, and the attacker was taken into custody. Information that emerged later revealed that the assailant had previously served 16 years in prison for murdering two of his own children.
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1 month ago | 
turkiyetoday.com | Enes Kilic
On April 28, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister held yet another phone call with his Iranian counterpart ahead of a planned visit to Oman, marking the latest in a series of high-level contacts between the former regional rivals. This diplomatic engagement comes just days after Saudi Arabia’s representative at the International Court of Justice presented arguments against the actions of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in Gaza, calling for Israel to respect international law.
