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RAKI AND DIPLOMACY OF WHO “WE” ARE
Guest Voices Nov 28, 2025

RAKI AND DIPLOMACY OF WHO “WE” ARE

When basketball player Alperen Şengün told an international audience that “rakı is our national drink,” he walked straight into a long domestic war over who is allowed to say “we” in Turkey. The outrage from certain commentators, demanding that the 23-year-old Houston Rockets center be punished for “promoting alcohol,” was predictable, not because of rakı itself, but because symbolic ownership of the drink has become a proxy for symbolic ownership of the nation.

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İYİ PARTY CONDEMNS ÖCALAN TALKS
Inside Turkey Nov 28, 2025

İYİ PARTY CONDEMNS ÖCALAN TALKS

İYİ Party Chair Müsavat Dervişoğlu condemned the parliamentary visit to İmralı, calling it a “national disgrace” and asserting that there is no statute of limitations for what he described as betrayal. İYİ Party deputy Alpaslan Yüce resigned from his party, saying it had abandoned its founding centrist ideals.

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DP PULLS OUT OF COMMISSION, PROTESTS İMRALI VISIT
Inside Turkey Nov 28, 2025

DP PULLS OUT OF COMMISSION, PROTESTS İMRALI VISIT

Democrat Party (DP) Izmir Deputy Haydar Altıntaş has announced the party's withdrawal from the National Solidarity, Brotherhood, and Democracy Commission, citing objections to the delegation’s visit to İmralı where PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan has been jailed since 1999.

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INTERNAL CRITICS RAISE THEIR VOICES, BUT ÖZEL'S CONTROL HOLDS
Inside Turkey Nov 28, 2025

INTERNAL CRITICS RAISE THEIR VOICES, BUT ÖZEL'S CONTROL HOLDS

As the CHP prepares for its 39th Ordinary Congress, the party dissidents escalated their challenge to the leadership of Özgür Özel. Former CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu,76, lit the fire by calling on Özel to take disciplinary action against people named in the corruption indictment involving Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu.

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KARAHAN: INFLATION IS LIKE A VIRUS—ERADICATING IT TAKES TIME
Economy and Finance Nov 27, 2025

KARAHAN: INFLATION IS LIKE A VIRUS—ERADICATING IT TAKES TIME

Central Bank Governor Fatih Karahan has likened inflation to a virus, saying it becomes harder to eliminate the longer it lingers in the economy. “We are applying the right prescription,” he said. “We’ve achieved positive results so far, and we have no doubts about our ultimate goal. But the effect of the prescription varies from case to case.”

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