Ankara Institute Director Osman Sert participated in the workshop entitled ‘The First Year of the New Process: Internal Dynamics and Regional Impacts’ jointly organised by the Centre for Kurdish Studies, BAYETAV and RAWEST Research in Izmir on 11 October 2025.
Hatem Ete, speaking at the “Turkey without Terror and Its Regional Reflections” panel at ORSAM, highlighted the process’s close links to developments in Syria but emphasized that the success of disarmament in Turkey should not be tied to preconditions in Syria.
We are addressing this process as it completes its first year. I want to evaluate what has been achieved in this one-year period, what point has been reached, what risks lie ahead, and the process’s regional reflections, especially those centered on Syria. When Devlet Bahçeli brought this issue up last October, we were all surprised, […]
Ankara Institute Director Hatem Ete, speaking at the TBMM National Solidarity, Fraternity, and Democracy Commission, emphasized that legal regulations should not be limited to disarmament but must also lay the foundation for democratic and peaceful steps.
When regime change occurred in Syria, Ankara’s fundamental expectation was quite clear: the integration of all armed elements in the country into the national army, the unification of regional structures with Damascus, the consolidation of the country’s unitary structure, the constitutional guarantee of the rights of all social segments, and the provision of political participation. […]
Racism is a poison that consumes peoples… Anatolia has for centuries been a land where different languages, beliefs, and ways of life have intersected. This diversity is one of the most sensitive veins of both cultural richness and politics. For this reason, the 1921 Constitution was based on pluralism. However, subsequent amendments brought a monolithic […]
