Turkey-Syria Normalization: Shared Hopes, Local Fears

military and intelligence officials from both countries met in Moscow to coordinate on security matters facing both countries. However, little progress has been made since then. Turkey has two priorities in dialogue with Damascus. The first is a collective fight against the SDF and its affiliated civilian government, the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and […]

Erdogan Declares War on Kurdish Mayors, Again

On November 4, Turkish authorities removed the elected Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party co-mayors of Mardin, Batman, and Halfeti districts and replaced them with “trustees” loyal to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). To date, a total of four DEM municipalities that the pro-Kurdish DEM Party won in this year’s local elections have […]