Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, April 3rd 2025
TURKEY’S LAWFARE? I Am the Turkish President’s Main Challenger. I Was Arrested.: Ekrem Imamoglu, NY Times, Mar. 28, 2025 — Early in the morning on March 19, dozens of armed police officers showed up at my door with a detention order. The scene resembled the capture of a terrorist, not of the elected mayor of […]
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Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak JISS, Mar. 30, 2025 “… when İmamoğlu unequivocally condemned Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, explicitly characterizing the group as a terrorist organization.” The pre-dawn arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu—President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s most formidable political rival—cemented March 19 as a pivotal and unforgettable day in Turkish political history, when the […]
Michael Rubin AEI.ORG, Mar. 30, 2025 “The Turkish protestors now fight for the soul of their nation.” Two million Turks have gathered in Istanbul to protest President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decision to arrest his main rival, Ekrem İmamoğlu, on trumped-up corruption and terror charges. Turks are not stupid; they see through Erdoğan’s cynicism and comment on its […]
Yaroslav Trofimov WSJ, Mar. 31, 2025 “European nations simply don’t have the luxury of focusing too closely on Turkey’s situation at home, with an existential threat from Russia and an increasingly hostile Washington.” Turkey’s suppression of democratic opposition would have elicited strong protests from Europe in the past. But now, the worst rift in trans-Atlantic […]
Friday, March 7th 2025
SHABBAT READING LISTEN: Tetzaveh / Shabbat Zachor: Tablet, Mar. 5, 2025 — In this week’s parsha, the Torah delivers detailed instructions about the priestly garments, but because it’s the Shabbat before the holiday of Purim, we also revisit the ancient commandment not to forget the evils of Amalek. Why must we remember Amalek’s wickedness, and what does the […]
Monday, January 27th 2025 / Monday, January 27th 2025
Turkey’s Vision Transforms Post-Assad Syria: Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, JISS, Jan. 14, 2025 Turkey’s New Threat to Israel: Yoni Ben Menachem, Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Jan. 15, 2025 How Turkey Leverages Itself Between East, Western Worlds to Maximize Geopolitical Clout: Loqman Radpey, Jerusalem Post, Jan. 19, 2025 How Turkey Is Seizing […]
Monday, January 27th 2025
Shahram Sabzevari World Crunch, Jan. 23, 2025 “The Zangezur corridor is a symbol of close and fruitful collaborations between Turkey and Azerbaijan.” Discreet at first, Turkey is now open in its backing for Syria’s new ruler, Ahmad al-Sharaa, the Islamist rebel whose forces toppled the Iran-backed Bashar al-Assad. Indeed, Assad’s fall is affecting ties between the Islamic […]
Loqman Radpey Jerusalem Post, Jan. 19, 2025 “Turkey’s partnership with Qatar in financing Islamic movements reveals a coordinated strategy to dominant Sunni Muslim communities globally, especially after the weakening of Iran’s “axis of resistance.”” Turkey’s bold foreign policy moves in recent years reflect a determined effort to redefine its regional and global role. From its […]
Yoni Ben Menachem Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Jan. 15, 2025 “Western intelligence sources suggest Erdogan harbors ambitions of reviving the Ottoman Empire, seeking to position himself as a modern-day sultan or caliph overseeing Sunni forces in the Middle East, including Jerusalem, which was once part of the Ottoman Empire.” Rising Turkish Influence […]
Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak JISS, Jan. 14, 2025 “Turkish ambitions in Syria appear to extend beyond the territorial.” The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime – brought about by Syrian opposition forces with Turkey’s backing – has created an unprecedented opportunity for Ankara to redefine its role as a regional power in line with its […]
Friday, January 24th 2025
Itamar Eichner Ynet News, Jan. 22, 2025 “Don’t you see the devastation behind you? What victory is this? Do you never look at the balance sheet?” Members of Hamas‘ political bureau met with Turkish intelligence officials on October 7, 2023, the same day Hamas launched a devastating attack on Israel, killing over 1,200 people, Turkish […]
Outside Source
Thursday, December 12th 2024
By David Bensoussan The author is a professor of science at the University of Quebec. For 54 years, the Assad dictatorship, led by father and son, ruled Syria with an iron fist, even resorting to chemical weapons against their own population. Since the onset of the civil war in 2011, the country has splintered into […]
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