Mentre milioni di persone riempiono le piazze oggi in Turchia, online una mia analisi per Formiche sul perché, nonostante la protesta popolare, lo scacchiere geopolitico è favorevole ad Erdoğan👇🏻 formiche.net/2025/03/arre...

The two detention centers for migrants in #Albania will become pre-repatriation centers. Two weeks after the announcement of the EU Common System for Returns. When life gives you lemons.. www.agenzianova.com/en/news/migr...

Con @ottolanza.bsky.social di @adnkronos.com ho avuto il piacere di discutere di quanto sta avvenendo in 🇹🇷. Perché l'arresto di İmamoğlu avviene in un momento geopoliticamente perfetto per Erdoğan? Perchè risponde ad una strategia di modifica della costituzione per ricandidarsi nel 2028?👇

#Turchia. L'arresto di Imamoglu è parte di una più ampia strategia di Erdogan, mi ha spiegato @angelaziccardi.bsky.social (@ecfrrome.bsky.social): dividere le opposizioni, sfruttare il momento favorevole a livello internazionale e presentarsi per un terzo mandato dopo aver modificato la Costituzione

COMMENTARY: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has spent years eroding democracy. Now, it looks as though he’s chosen this geopolitical moment to bury the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the secular founder of the Republic of Turkey.

"All this is probably beyond the worst-case scenario the planners at the presidential palace gamed out. There’s no obvious way out for them". Good point by @selimkoru.bsky.social. I would love to share the same optimism about the protest's impact, but it's hard to see.

The title was not my choice but here is my latest for Foreign Affairs on Imamoglu's arrest, arguing that in this brazen act of political suppression, the Turkish government has taken a momentous step toward full-fledged autocracy. www.foreignaffairs.com/turkey/turke...

What's happening in Turkey is a very dark turn in the country's authoritarian trajectory--but it's minor news next to yet another US-sanctioned Israeli massacre of hundreds of Gazans; and autocrats like Erdogan know full well that it's "the time of monsters" and they can act as they please.

One of the best analysis read so far. 🧵

La Turchia non ha orchestrato la caduta di Assad, ma di certo sta guadagnando dalle conseguenze. Ora vuole plasmare la Siria a sua immagine e somiglianza, a patto che riesca a impedire ai curdi di rovinare la festa, scrive @asliaydintasbas.bsky.social 👇 ecfr.eu/article/topp...

My take on @expresso-rss.bsky.social on the Italy-Albania deal on migrants and why 🇪🇺 policymaking should rethink its externalisation policy. expresso.pt/internaciona...

L'accordo migratorio tra Italia e Albania non sta avendo l'effetto desiderato. I Paesi europei non dovrebbero considerarlo come modello per le politiche future ma piuttosto lavorare per una soluzione più coesa. ✍️ @arturovarvelli.bsky.social & @angelaziccardi.bsky.social ecfr.eu/article/why-...

Happy to share my first @ecfr.eu commentary✍️w/ @arturovarvelli.bsky.social! For EU policymakers, the example of the Italy-Albania migration deal should serve as a cautionary tale on the viability and effectiveness of such agreements. Here's why 🔍

🎧 New year, new predictions episode ! Mark Leonard and @jyshapiro.bsky.social look back over their 2024 predictions and forecast ten foreign policy projections for 2025. Can you guess how they scored ? Will 2025 be the year they achieve 10/10? Listen to the full episode here: buff.ly/40iqj9V

“The richness of the soil is what we have left.”

@unhcr.org map shows 2024 returnees to Syria by governorate (as of December 24): data.unhcr.org/en/documents...

Con la soluzione dei due Stati a rischio, gli europei devono lavorare al fianco degli Stati arabi per porre fine al conflitto israelo-palestinese. Nuovo policy brief a cura di Hugh Lovatt & Muhammad Shedada 👇 ecfr.eu/publication/...

Once again, another example of how refugees are used as political cards, and how EU governments prove to be short-sighted (with Erdogan ready to capitalize on the situation).

In my article yesterday, I wrote about the alleged leaks from Syria to Israel about Iran. Today, the Syrians unearthed a trove of documents about the Assad regime’s collusion with Israel. carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

Following a ten-day advance, Syrian rebels have toppled the regime of Bashar al-Assad. European governments should step up support for a stabilising, power-sharing transition to protect their regional interests – and Syria’s citizens. @ecfrmena.bsky.social ecfr.eu/article/the-...