Insight Turkey
Insight Turkey
Challenging ideas
On Turkish politics and International affairs

Shattered Status Quo Iranian Resilience and the Limits of U

Shattered Status Quo: Iranian Resilience and the Limits of U.S. Strategy

Commentaries

The nearly 50-year-long tension between the United States and Iran has culminated in a broad, high-intensity conflict. The visible dynamics that...

Syria in the Making One Year of Struggle for Recognition

Syria in the Making: One Year of Struggle for Recognition and Territorial Unity

Commentaries

Approximately one year after the fall of the Assad regime, Syria has made concrete progress in securing international recognition and stabilizing...

Warfare for a Dying World Order What the U S

Warfare for a Dying World Order: What the U.S.-Israel-Iran War Means

Commentaries

Contemporary warfare increasingly reflects an international environment in which military force is deployed unilaterally and beyond established...

Editor's Note Winter 2026

Editor's Note | Winter 2026

Editor's Note

This issue records the great historical tension between the chaotic atmosphere into which the Middle East has been pushed by the U.S. and Israel...

Current State of the Eastern Mediterranean Energy A SWOT Analysis

Current State of the Eastern Mediterranean Energy: A SWOT Analysis of Israel’s Role

Articles

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the Eastern Mediterranean region has been the scene of important political conflicts. The discovery of...

Terror-Free Türkiye More than Eliminating Weapons from the Story

Terror-Free Türkiye: More than Eliminating Weapons from the Story

Commentaries

The new political process in Türkiye, initiated by Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), and the aim for a...

Iranian Shiitization Activities during al-Assad Family s Era

Iranian Shiitization Activities during al-Assad Family’s Era

Articles

Since the establishment of the Syrian–Iranian alliance in 1980, Iran has been able, with the approval of Hafez al-Assad and later his son Bashar,...

Editor's Note Fall 2025

Editor's Note | Fall 2025

Editor's Note

Taken together, the contributions in this issue situate the idea of a “Terror-Free Türkiye” within a broader intellectual and geopolitical context,...

A Türkiye-Specific Model for Ending Terrorism Terror-Free Türkiye

A Türkiye-Specific Model for Ending Terrorism: “Terror-Free Türkiye”

Commentaries

This commentary explains the basis on which the Turkish authorities launched a new political initiative, called Terror-Free Türkiye, which aims...

Reflections of the Palestinian-Israeli War in Western Media The Case

Reflections of the Palestinian-Israeli War in Western Media: The Case of Thomson Reuters

Articles

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has long been a central issue in the Middle East, with global resonance and significant media reflections. Western...

The Hollow Promise of Recognition in the Shadow of the

The Hollow Promise of Recognition in the Shadow of the Genocide in Gaza

Commentaries

The recent wave of recognition of the Palestinian state comes at a moment when an unprecedented combination of Zionist settler-colonial eliminatory...

The Second Trump Administration and Its Implications to the Global

The Second Trump Administration and Its Implications to the Global Order

Commentaries

The prospect of a second Trump term has reignited global apprehensions, sparking renewed debates about the future trajectory of U.S. foreign policy...

Understanding Iran s Position in the Post-October 7 Middle East

Understanding Iran’s Position in the Post-October 7 Middle East

Commentaries

On October 7, the Middle East witnessed a dramatic shift that reshaped geopolitical and security dynamics. Iran's central role in this...

Post-Sinwar Hamas and Palestinian Resistance

Post-Sinwar Hamas and Palestinian Resistance

Commentaries

This commentary examines the effects of the martyrdom of Yahya Sinwar, the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas,...

Gaza War New Opportunities and Challenges for Iran

Gaza War: New Opportunities and Challenges for Iran

Commentaries

The Iranian decision not to immediately retaliate against Israel for the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July...

Sinwar s Rise in Hamas An In-depth Analysis of Internal

Sinwar’s Rise in Hamas: An In-depth Analysis of Internal Dynamics and Regional Interactions

Commentaries

This commentary examines the implications of Yahya Sinwar’s election as the new head of Hamas following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh. It...

Governments and Politics of the Contemporary Middle East Discontinuity and

Governments and Politics of the Contemporary Middle East: Discontinuity and Turbulence

Book Reviews

The book provides a comprehensive guide for students, academics, and policymakers who seek to understand the Middle East’s complex and dynamic...

Arab Petro-Politics

Arab Petro-Politics

Book Reviews

Arab Petro-Politics, which is a historical reference source, has not been updated or expanded since its first publication in 1984 until this new...

The Age of Counter-Revolution States and Revolutions in the Middle

The Age of Counter-Revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East

Book Reviews

The book The Age of the Counter- Revolution by Jamie Allinson, a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of...

Editor's Note Spring 2024

Editor's Note | Spring 2024

Editor's Note

This issue of Insight Turkey offers a thorough examination of the current state of Middle Eastern politics, exploring the characteristics,...

Bahraini-Turkish Relations A Strategic Role Adaptation of Manama

Bahraini-Turkish Relations: A Strategic Role Adaptation of Manama

Articles

Turkish-Bahraini bilateral ties provide a fertile ground for a comprehensive set of discussions on regional affairs, yet it is an understudied...

Contested Spaces and Ethnocratic Policies Navigating the Geopolitics of Heritage

Contested Spaces and Ethnocratic Policies: Navigating the Geopolitics of Heritage and Identity in Jerusalem

Articles

This study explores the architectural and demographic dynamics of Jerusalem, examining public discourse to determine the presence of neo-colonial...

Syria s Political Stalemate International Efforts and Regional Dynamics

Syria’s Political Stalemate: International Efforts and Regional Dynamics

Commentaries

International efforts to find a political solution to the conflict in Syria began early on in the war. The Arab League was the first body to...

Hezbollah s Shortsighted Strategy for the War in Gaza

Hezbollah’s Shortsighted Strategy for the War in Gaza

Commentaries

This commentary argues that Hezbollah felt duty-bound to open a front in Southern Lebanon to ease Israel’s military pressure on Hamas. Hezbollah...

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