Sinan Ekim

Sinan Ekim is a research assistant at the Istanbul Policy Centre. He was previously with the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome.

Erdoğan, Syria and the Kurds: be careful what you wish for

A complex political triangulation links the Turkish president with the Syrian imbroglio and the Kurdish question, but his political target is receding.

By Sinan Ekim

/ 9 May 2015

Turkey, Kobane and the Kurdish question

The US wants Turkey to join the military effort against Islamic State at Kurdish-dominated Kobane, across the Syrian border—but Ankara’s focus is the Kurds within its own.

By Sinan Ekim

/ 10 Nov 2014