🎙️ Cose Turche News is back. New season, new format. 🇹🇷 New voices, longer episodes, and deeper dives into Turkey’s politics, society, and the wider region — every two weeks. 🎧 Episode 1 is out: a review of 2025 and early insights on what to expect in 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRvP...

And in case you missed it, our 2026 Predictions issue. [5/5]

📌 The traditional Foreign Policy Review from the @istanpol.bsky.social is out! 🇹🇷 ✒️ Check out this year's expert comments and predictions for 2026 by Samuele Abrami, Soner Cagaptay, Dareen Khalifa, Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti, Ebru Turhan, and Sıtkı Egeli. istanpol.org/en/post-turk...

📌 Thanks to @turkeyrecap.bsky.social for including me in its traditional New Year predictions alongside a great group of experts! I briefly reflected on what 2026 may bring for #Turkey – #EU defence relations. 🇹🇷🇪🇺 open.substack.com/pub/turkeyre...

@turkeyrecap.bsky.social continues its great tradition of collecting predictions from experts for the new year. I also contributed with thoughts on Syria. 👇 www.turkeyrecap.com/p/2026-predi...

"Hedging defined Turkish foreign policy in 2025. Next year may require a new approach." by @riccardogasco.bsky.social. [4/5]

In 2025, Turkish foreign policy was less about choosing sides and more about managing risk exposure, preserving flexibility and maintaining relevance across multiple theaters. Looking ahead, however, the space for such hedging may narrow, argues @riccardogasco.bsky.social:

📌 Thrilled to see my Op-Ed on #Turkish foreign policy in 2025 out on @turkeyrecap.bsky.social 🇹🇷 🗞️ “Hedging defined Turkish foreign policy in 2025. Next year may require a new approach” www.turkeyrecap.com/p/op-ed-hedg...

"Managed Pragmatism: EU-Türkiye Relations Without a Shared Vision — Insights from Brussels" by @riccardogasco.bsky.social, @selvinkorkmaz.bsky.social and Edgar Şar. [2/5]

📌 Pleased to share our new @istanpol.bsky.social report, co-authored with @selvinkorkmaz.bsky.social and Edgar Sar! 🇹🇷🇪🇺 “Managed Pragmatism: #EU–#Türkiye Relations Without a Shared Vision – Insights from #Brussels” istanpol.org/en/post-mana...

📌 It was a great pleasure to speak yesterday at Bahçeşehir University about #Europe's emerging security architecture and the role of #Turkey and #Italy. 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 🇹🇷 Thanks to @seloner.bsky.social and Yüksel Alper Ecevit for their kind invitation!

Over the past five years, Turkey and its Gulf partners have transformed competition into cooperation. What began as a cautious political rapprochement has matured into defense-industrial diplomacy linking technology, trade, and security. @riccardogasco.bsky.social & Francesco Schiavi

Among Gulf states, the UAE and Saudi Arabia have taken the lead in shifting from procurement-heavy to production-oriented defense sectors. @riccardogasco.bsky.social & Francesco Salesio Schiavi

📌 New analysis out with Francesco Salesio Schiavi for the @gulfstatesinst.bsky.social on #Turkey and the #Gulf partnership on defence industrialisation. 🇹🇷 Are Turkey and the Gulf moving from arms procurement to true co-production? agsi.org/analysis/blu...

As the Gulf states pursue defense localization and seek to reduce dependence on the United States and Europe, Ankara offers cost-effective technology and a model of how to build capacity. – @riccardogasco.bsky.social & Francesco Salesio Schiavi

📌 I'm happy to join the Bahçeşehir seminar series on December 10th with a talk on the repositioning of #Turkey in the European defence architecture and its relations with Italy. 🇹🇷 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 Thanks to Professor Selcen Oner for the kind invitation!

Very much appreciated @istanpol.bsky.social's invitation to participate, with Özgür Ünlühisarcıklı and Aslı Aydıntaşbaş to talk about Turkey-US relations, and moderated by @riccardogasco.bsky.social. I learned a lot from my fellow panelists. www.istanpol.org/post-turkiye...

📌 It's always a pleasure to moderate @istanpol.bsky.social Foreign Policy Talks. 🇹🇷 🇺🇸 🎙️ Check out our speakers' insights on Turkey-USA relations!

📌 Happy to share my chapter written for Carocci Editore in a book edited by Edoardo Corradi and Giampiero Cama on the #Syrian Civil War! 🇹🇷 🇸🇾 ✒️ I look at #Turkey and post-Assad #Syria, exploring #Ankara’s ambitions in the new regional landscape. 🔗 bit.ly/48jhMXb

Three comprehensive papers that summarise the entire İmralı affair, as well as the issues behind the CHP's refusal to meet with Abdullah Öcalan: Murat Yetkin: yetkinreport.com/2025/11/22/c... Gokcer Tahincioğlu: t24.com.tr/yazarlar/gok... Nergis Demirkaya: www.24saatgazetesi.com/komisyonun-i...

New from @riccardogasco.bsky.social at @istanpol.bsky.social "Between Autonomy and Alignment: Four Scenarios for Türkiye’s Place in Europe’s SAFE Program" istanpol.org/en/post-betw...

📌 Great to see my latest out for @istanpol.bsky.social on #Turkey's place in #Europe’s #SAFE Program! 🇹🇷🇪🇺 🔺 Four scenarios ahead: functional integration, selective partnerships, conditional re-engagement, or strategic divergence. 🔗 Read it here: istanpol.org/en/post-betw...

📌 I shared my two cents in this long article written by Stefano Mazzola for @mm-ilfoglio-bot.bsky.social dedicated to #Turkey's mediation role alongside @berkesen.bsky.social and @ezgibasaran.bsky.social 🇹🇷

📢 @istanpol.bsky.social invites applications for its Visiting Researchers Program — for scholars keen to engage in policy-oriented research in Istanbul, focusing on areas such as democratization and foreign policy. 🇹🇷 🔗 For full details & application ➡️ bit.ly/42D4Jh8

📌Pleased to share my latest analysis for @istanpol.bsky.social! 🗞️ “Peripheral Autonomy: Türkiye and the Reconfiguration of Europe’s Security Order.” 👉 What if Türkiye is already co-shaping Europe’s security order from its periphery? 🇹🇷🇪🇺 istanpol.org/en/post-peri...

Turkey recap consistently does some of the best English-language reporting on Turkey I've seen. Their weekly news overviews, article digests, in-depth investigative pieces, and podcasts are super useful. Glad to see this Turkish-language initiative with @studyorecap.bsky.social - hayırlı olsun!

📌 Great to see our latest analysis out with Baser Bahar and Samuele Abrami for the Middle East Council on Global Affairs! 🔺 In the piece, we look at how domestic politics and regional dynamics are shaping the #Turkish - #Kurdish peace talks. mecouncil.org/blog_posts/t...

📌 Heading to the #EISAPEC25 this week in #Bologna! 🎙️ Together with Chiara Boldrini and Edoardo Lavezzo, we will present two papers on #Turkey's foreign policy. 🇹🇷 If you're around or interested in our research, we'd be happy to meet!

📌 My latest analysis out with @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social on 🇹🇷-🇫🇷 relations! ✒️ With Ulysse Fournillon, we looked at how #Turkey - #France can reset their ties in a shifting strategic order, raging war in #Ukraine, and shifts in #US foreign policy. www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/turkey...

📌 Delighted to have been invited by ISPI and Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti on their video podcast "Dispacci dalla Russia". 🎙️Together we sat down for an in-depth discussion on the evolving role of #Turkey as a mediator between #Russia and #Ukraine. 🇺🇦 🇹🇷 🇷🇺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbAi...

📌 Our latest analysis with Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti for ISPI! ✍️ From central mediator to tactical retreat: #Ankara’s balancing act between #Moscow and #Kyiv amid ambitions, pressures, and global challenges. Check it out! 🇺🇦 🇹🇷 🇷🇺 www.ispionline.it/it/pubblicaz...

Big thanks to the Cose Turche News Podcast for having me on their season finale. Hosted by Eleonora Masi, Samuele Abrami and @riccardogasco.bsky.social, it's the best (and only?) source on Turkey news in Italian:

Eventful week it is: Ocalan's video message noting that the armed struggle is over and this is a historic gain not loss, the planned ceremony on Friday in Suleymaniye, when a small number of PKK fighters will lay down arms, and the talks today (mediated by the US&France) betwen Damascus&the SDF..

📌 I shared a few thoughts with Il Foglio on 🇹🇷-🇮🇱 relations in the aftermath of the 12th day war and the changing balance of power in the Middle East. ✍️Happy to have contributed to this excellent analysis alongside Nimrod Goren, by Stefano Mazzola. www.ilfoglio.it/esteri/2025/...

The multifront attack against the CHP has a logic within the broader context of the rapprochement with Ocalan and efforts to draft a new constitution.

📌 Thank you very much @diegocupolo.bsky.social for accepting our invitation! 🎙️If you haven’t yet, check out our Gran Finale of Cose Turche News! podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/c...

📌 It was great to moderate the 17th Foreign Policy Talk at @istanpol.bsky.social with a great lineup of speakers on how rising tensions between #Iran 🇮🇷 and #Israel 🇮🇱 reshape 🇹🇷 regional role and defence ties with 🇪🇺. 🎙️Check out our speakers' insights!

A summary of Ankara's law/warfare against the CHP: Today, a key hearing is taking place to determine whether to annul the party’s 38th regular convention, during which Özgür Özel replaced the former chairman, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, after the CHP’s 2023 election defeat, triggering internal strife.

Informative thread on the Turkish government's case against the main opposition CHP from the excellent @sinemadar.bsky.social. Perhaps unsurprisingly, today's court decision was to postpone the case until Sept 8. I read this as meant to give the CHP enough time to fracture (further) on its own.

"Türkiye, Italy and the EU: Trials of Defence Cooperation" by @riccardogasco.bsky.social, @samueljsdv.bsky.social, Talbot Valeria, Valeria Giannotta,‪ @orko8.bsky.social, @skuneralp.bsky.social and‬ Başak Alpan. [4/5]

📌 Thrilled to share our latest piece at IstanPol Institute, which I had the pleasure of editing on growing defence partnerships between #Turkey - #Italy and the #EU. 🇹🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 ✍️ Check out our experts' insights on what lies ahead! istanpol.org/en/post-turk...

📌 Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting our co-authored paper with Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti on the #Turkish mediation role between #Russia and #Ukraine at the #SGRI conference at the Università Cattolica! 🇺🇦 🇹🇷 🇷🇺 Thanks to the organizers! Great conversations and food for thought!

"From 'Good Relations' to 'Strategic Pragmatism': Italy-Turkey Defense Cooperation in a Fragmented Geopolitical Order" by Samuele Abrami and @riccardogasco.bsky.social . [2/5]

It's fascinating to note that there have never been so many articles on the boom in Turkey's defence industry. For months now, dozens of articles have been appearing every week. A godsend for Ankara and its quest for international visibility and status. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/26/t...

📌 In our latest analysis with Samuele Abrami, published for IPC, we delve into the growing defence cooperation between #Italy and #Turkey, reasoning on whether it could work as a springboard for a broader #EU - #Turkey cooperation. 🇹🇷🇮🇹🇪🇺 ✍️ Read it here: ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/Content/Imag...

📌 I recently shared some thoughts on the growing partnership between #Italy and #Turkey with Simona Scotti on her analysis published on the Topchubashov Center. 🇹🇷🇮🇹 Thank you for hosting my two cents! top-center.org/en/analytics...

📌 I shared a few thoughts with @thenewarab.bsky.social on #Turkey-#EU defence ties and the role of #Italy in these emerging partnerships. 🇪🇺🇹🇷🇮🇹 ✍️Thanks to Jonathan Fenton-Harvey for including my comments in this insightful and comprehensive analysis. www.newarab.com/analysis/how...

There are many important elements in Erdogan's latest speech to the AKP group meeting. And many of them rule out the hypothesis or illusion of ‘democratisation’ through the solution process with the PKK. A few points: 1) The MIT will monitor the ++ www.birgun.net/haber/erdoga...

📢Tomorrow at Genoa University! 📌 Glad for the opportunity to discuss #Turkish foreign policy behavior in #Syria together with the recent developments. 🇹🇷🇸🇾 Thanks to Edoardo Corradi for the kind invitation!

📌 Thank you to Futura D'Aprile and Federico Baccini for including my two cents in this analysis published on The Parliament Magazine on #Turkey - #EU defence cooperation 🇹🇷🇪🇺 Read the full article below! www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article...