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"...He also says he believed the PKK should have been dissolved in 1993 and that he wanted to conclude the armed phase then, pointing to the Özal period as a missed opening..."
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TBMM Publishes İmralı Transcript After SDF Collapse, Signaling the Continuation of the “Renewed” Kurdish Process
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TBMM Publishes İmralı Transcript After SDF Collapse, Signaling the Continuation of the “Renewed” Kurdish Process Turkey’s Grand National Assembly (TBMM) has published the full transcript of a delegation’s November 24, 2025 visit to İmralı prison, where three lawmakers met Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned founder ...

TBMM Publishes İmralı Transcript After SDF Collapse, Signaling the Continuation of the “Renewed” Kurdish Process newsaboutturkey.com/2026/01/23/t...

That’s unfortunate — independent geopolitical analysis is more important than ever right now.
It’s getting harder to find thoughtful, balanced perspectives in today’s media space.
These topics deserve deeper conversation than a comment thread allows.

Once again, many Turkish YouTubers and ‘analysts’ are lifting our analysis, repackaging it for Turkish audiences, and then performing the usual victory lap: ‘See? I was right, everything unfolded exactly as I said it would.'

g- "...The vacuum did not remain empty for long. Part of it was filled by state-aligned, quasi-corporatist youth structures that fuse piety with political loyalty. Bilal Erdoğan is closely associated with this ecosystem; He serves as a board member at the TÜGVA youth foundation, underscoring how...

The Day After the SDF: Turkey’s Salafism Gamble—and Bilal Erdoğan’s Succession Pipeline The collapse of the SDF’s de facto autonomy in northeastern Syria is being sold—especially in Ankara—as a clean geopolitical outcome: the Kurdish project is being folded into the Syrian state, and Tur...

h-...such platforms overlap with family-centered continuity projects in the Erdoğan era..."
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e-"...When that ecosystem was ripped out after 2016—schools closed, dorms and prep-course circuits dismantled, international networks criminalized—Turkey did not simply eliminate a rival; it also removed a large institutional “shock absorber” that had shaped religious youth through disciplined...

The Day After the SDF: Turkey’s Salafism Gamble—and Bilal Erdoğan’s Succession Pipeline The collapse of the SDF’s de facto autonomy in northeastern Syria is being sold—especially in Ankara—as a clean geopolitical outcome: the Kurdish project is being folded into the Syrian state, and Tur...

f-...education, upward mobility, and outward-facing professionalism..."
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c-"...the Gülen movement—whatever one thinks of its politics—had long functioned as a major pipeline of Turkey’s “moderate,” education-forward Islamic socialization at home and abroad. Its school networks were a well-known soft-power instrument, often providing modern, high-quality instruction...👇

d-...(languages, sciences) and projecting a socially conservative but globally legible Turkish profile in dozens of countries..."

a-"Even Bahçeli has endorsed Sharaa’s moves as timely and correct for Syria’s unity—language that effectively “normalizes” him inside Turkey’s nationalist ecosystem &, by extension, among the youth networks that take cues from it. The risk is that this rehabilitation doesn’t only launder one leader;

The Day After the SDF: Turkey’s Salafism Gamble—and Bilal Erdoğan’s Succession Pipeline The collapse of the SDF’s de facto autonomy in northeastern Syria is being sold—especially in Ankara—as a clean geopolitical outcome: the Kurdish project is being folded into the Syrian state, and Tur...

b-...it launders the broader ideological traffic around him..."👇
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"In Turkey, that shift is being lubricated by a political rebranding campaign that treats Syria’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, not as a former jihadist figure but as a legitimate “counterterror” partner—and, in nationalist discourse, increasingly as a statesman who delivered what Ankara wanted..."👇

Great-Power Condominium or Great-Power Mirage?
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1- This is the emerging U.S.-aligned Middle East order in one frame: MBS, al-Sharaa, and Bilal Erdoğan—three young men converging around a Salafi-adjacent ideological core, fused with Turkish and Arab nationalism, with Israel positioned as the primary beneficiary under the Abraham Accords, and...👇

2-...projected beyond the region into the Caucasus and Central Asia in service of U.S. interests.

The Day After the SDF: Turkey’s Salafism Gamble—and Bilal Erdoğan’s Succession Pipeline The collapse of the SDF’s de facto autonomy in northeastern Syria is being sold—especially in Ankara—as a clean geopolitical outcome: the Kurdish project is being folded into the Syrian state, and Tur...

The Day After the SDF: Turkey’s Salafism Gamble—and Bilal Erdoğan’s Succession Pipeline
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This will be another incentive for Salafi forces in Iraq and Syria to try to topple the Shiite-led government.
U.S. Forces Launch Mission in Syria to Transfer ISIS Detainees to Iraq
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"...Speaking to reporters after his Vatican meeting, Barzani said he urged Sharaa to prevent the ongoing tensions from escalating into “a war between Kurds and Arabs...”
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Salafi Consolidation: Is Iraq—and the KRG—Next After Syria and Yemen? The sectarian balance in the Middle East is undergoing a significant shift since the end of 2024. By 2025, Sunni forces throughout the region experienced a resurgence in influence, while Shiite factio...

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“…Analysts(?) say the Syrian Democratic Forces miscalculated, taking a hard stance in negotiations with the new leaders in Damascus on the assumption that if a military conflict erupted between them, Washington would support the SDF as it had for years when they battled the Islamic State group…”

A US shift marked Kurdish-led forces' fall from power in Syria The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have fallen from power in Syria as the U.S. shifts its backing to the country's new leaders in Damascus.

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Wondering who these ‘analysts’ are: “…Analysts say the Syrian Democratic Forces miscalculated, taking a hard stance in negotiations with the new leaders in Damascus on the assumption that if a military conflict erupted between them, Washington would support the SDF as it had for years…

A US shift marked Kurdish-led forces' fall from power in Syria The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have fallen from power in Syria as the U.S. shifts its backing to the country's new leaders in Damascus.

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Ocalan (last April): "...Of course. They are preparing the PKK, and they have prepared Turkey as well.
If you win, it’s a Pyrrhic victory; if it wins, it’s also a Pyrrhic victory..."👇

1- Öcalan (last April): "...he criticized both the PKK’s Kandil leadership, which he said remained under Iranian influence, and elements of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which he alleged were cooperating with Israel. “Today they work with you; tomorrow they might work with Israel,”...

2- ...he warned, describing himself as the “only obstacle” capable of halting what he called the “Gazafication” of the region...
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1-After our op-ed was published, different stories and 'analyses' drawing on it began to circulate across both Turkish and Arab media. One line of claims suggested that the SDF had been asked to fight Iraq’s Haşd al-Shaabi, refused, and was subsequently sidelined, while Shara. accepted such a role.👇

2- It went even further, alleging that Erdoğan offered Trump a plan in which jihadist fighters mobilized in Syria could be redirected into broader regional operations, including against Iran and Kurdish forces.