Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, June 8th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
MEDIA COLLUSION Turkey and the Power of Controlling the Narrative: Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune/ TNS, May 23, 2023 — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defied all expectations when he won nearly half the vote in Turkey’s election on Sunday. This means he’ll face a presidential runoff for the first time, but he looks poised to […]
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Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, May 29, 2023 “Ankara’s politics of stoking tensions and then climbing down and asserting that tensions lead to respect may be out of step with the modern Middle East.” With Turkey’s elections now decided and the unsurprising victory of the long-time ruling AKP Party and its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Israel will […]
Jonathan Spyer Middle East Forum, June 2, 2023 “The Turkish leader has abandoned his commitment to Sunni uprisings because there are currently no uprisings to support.” Sitting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan comfortably defeated opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in this week’s runoff vote in the Turkish presidential election. The AKP leader, who has ruled Turkey since 2002, secured […]
Ofra Bengio INSS Insight No. 1735, June 6, 2023 “The approach and modus operandi of the main Kurdish organization, the underground PKK, founded in the 1970s, are in effect a mirror image of those of Erdogan’s.” Erdogan’s Strategy In his approach toward the Kurdish issue, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has demonstrated initiative and […]
Tuesday, February 21st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Carmit Balensi and Gallia Lindenstrauss INSS Insight No. 1689, Feb. 8, 2023 “A more likely explanation is that this is a political ploy by Erdogan ahead of upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, which were moved up and are now scheduled for May 14.” Since May 2022, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to launch […]
ISRAEL EXTENDS ITS HAND Foreign Minister Cohen Lands in Turkey to Show Solidarity, Meet With Erdogan: Lazar Berman, Times of Israel, Feb. 14, 2023 — Foreign Minister Eli Cohen landed in Turkey on Tuesday morning for a one-day solidarity visit in the wake of the deadly earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people. […]
Abdullah Bozkurt Nordic Monitor, Feb. 11, 2023 “Erdoğan, his family and his cronies in political and business establishments pocketed huge sums at the expense of the safety of citizens.” The large-scale destruction of property and huge number of casualties in Turkey’s massive earthquakes earlier this week have exposed decades of mismanagement, nepotism and waste […]
Bobby Ghosh Washington Post, Jan. 9, 2023 “Should Erdogan be defeated, says Sinan Ulgen, director of the Istanbul think tank EDAM, “his successor will transform Turkey into a different foreign policy actor, more comfortable with its position as a Western nation.” Among the many general elections of international consequence to watch this year, Nigeria’s, scheduled […]
Burak Bekdil Gatestone Institute, Feb. 3, 2023 “Most Turks still believe what they were taught at primary school: A Turk’s only friend is another Turk.” NATO is essentially a security alliance. Its preamble, however, states that the organization is founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law. The grossly autocratic […]
Thursday, January 5th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
The Islamic State Is Cautiously Optimistic About a New Turkish Operation in Syria: Charlie Winter, War on the Rocks, Dec. 23, 2022 It’s Clear That Turkey Has Imposed Islamic Rule on Both Its Domestic and Foreign Policies – Opinion: Robert Ellis, Jerusalem Post, Dec. 11, 2022 Turkey Continues to Hide the Identity of Captured ISIS […]
Charlie Winter War on the Rocks, Dec. 23, 2022 In internet forums over the past several weeks, Islamic State members have expressed cautious optimism about the benefits of a potential Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria. For the group’s scattered fighters, further Turkish attacks against the Syrian Democratic Forces could represent a unique opportunity to […]
Levent Kenez Nordic Monitor, Dec. 20, 2022 Turkey’s Defense Ministry on Monday tweeted that border guards in a joint operation with the gendarmerie captured an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) suspect who is wanted on an INTERPOL Red Notice in Hatay province, located on the border with Syria, while the suspect […]
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