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Analysis
Through projections and planning for the future made decades in advance, the Fetullah Terrorist Organisation aimed to infiltrate the finest capillaries of the state. In line with this aim, the organisation turned in particular to the state bureaucracy and attached special importance to the military bureaucracy. To achieve this aim…
Halit Çokan
Analysis
Syria is today witnessing Israeli air strikes increasing on an unprecedented scale. The most striking of these attacks was the targeting of the area around the People’s Palace in Damascus. This extraordinary development carries political and strategic meanings that go beyond the conventional military framework…
Dr Gülşen Y. Sağlam
Analysis
The Fetullah Terrorist Organisation is not a religious or Sufi organisation in the classical and traditional sense. The Fetullah Terrorist Organisation (FETÖ) is not merely an espionage organisation or one with the appearance of a religious community; it is a cult structure shaped around a charismatic leader and based on mental submission. The leader…
Halit Çokan
Analysis
Iran, which for various reasons has always been one of the important items on the agenda of international politics, has in recent years frequently come to the fore with debates about the regime and, most recently, with street demonstrations. In fact, these debates are not new; they have a history going back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution…
Kürşat Güneş
Analysis
The first half of the 2020s witnessed two hot conflicts that profoundly shook world politics: the war launched by Russia against Ukraine and the Israel–Iran conflict that recently broke out. Although these two fronts lie in geographically different regions, in terms of international balances and economic interests…
Hasan Hüseyin Güneş
Report
On 22.06.2025, US President Donald Trump announced that American bombers had struck 3 Iranian nuclear facilities. Trump stated that the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities had been struck successfully, and threatened that, should Iran retaliate in any way against the US, it would…
Prof. Veysel Ayhan
Analysis
Over the past few decades, Iran was at the centre of Israel’s regional policies; Tel Aviv made intensive efforts to break Iran’s influence and to limit the axis of resistance it supports. With the shift in the regional balance of power and the emergence of new challenges, however, Israel has moved beyond a strategy focused solely on Iran…
Dr Gülşen Y. Sağlam
Report
On the morning of 13 June, the Israeli Armed Forces carried out a multidimensional, high-intensity air attack against the Islamic Republic of Iran. This attack came after the decision taken by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that Iran had violated its obligations relating to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons…
Prof. Veysel Ayhan
Report
At the end of 2024, the geopolitical transformations in the Middle East, particularly with the collapse of the Syrian regime, led to fundamental changes in the regional balance of power. One of the countries most affected by these transformations was Lebanon. In Lebanon, this transition period took place amid a domestic political crisis…
Dr Gülşen Y. Sağlam
Research
– Ukraine gained its independence with the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). This process began when the Parliament of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic approved the document declaring the country’s independence on 24 August 1991. – The results of the Ukrainian referendum held in December 1991…
SESA Institute
Research
Following the decision of the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) involving new appointments to surplus posts in project schools, secondary school students staged protests across the country, above all in Istanbul. Although MoNE stated that the new appointments were made under the authority of the MoNE Special Programmes Regulation published in Official Gazette No. 29818 of 01.09.2016…
SESA Institute
Analysis
Trade wars existed long before the emergence of modern societies. One of them is the Opium Wars waged with China in the 19th century. The British dispatch of opium produced in India to China over many years, and the Chinese emperor’s refusal to accept it any longer, led to a development that culminated in war…
Assoc. Prof. Müslüm Basılgan
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