Category: Iran
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PKK Disbanding
PKK announced on May 12, 2025, that it would disband and end its armed struggle. ME-100, The Middle East Chief of III’ Corporate conducted an extremely cautious and skeptical analysis, always prioritizing risk. Being a Middle East Chief requires thinking in a risk-intensive manner. ME-100, Middle East Chief: The PKK’s announcement to disband and end…
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ME-100 Analyzes Pentagon’s Syria Consolidation
Strategic Shift or Retreat? “The consolidation appears to be a tactical adjustment aimed at sustaining counterterrorism efforts with a leaner footprint, but it may inadvertently cede strategic space to regional actors with divergent interests.” Muhammet Ali Zurnacı: Pentagon announces consolidation of US forces in Syria under Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve to…
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ME-100 on the US-Iran nuclear talks in Rome
ME-100, Middle East Chief, analyzed the ongoing US-Iran Nuclear Negotiations in Rome: “A managed détente under the shadow of escalation, a choreography of pressure and concession designed more to delay conflict than resolve it.” Let me underline that “the oscillation theory” is my own unique theory of IR and I personally teach it to my…
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Counter Strategy PEK
Environmental Conditioning is likely to force PEK into making quick decisions. Turkey is deeply involved in diplomatic activity, searching for areas of maneuver despite feeling increasingly cornered by the hyperactive counter-diplomatic moves of other regional middle powers attempting to influence regional and subregional functions. Turkey remains hesitant about cross-border operations (land and maritime) due to the potential…
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What is PEK?
In the Time of Soaring Prices and Roaring Images MUHAMMET ALİ ZURNACI Eurasia, Near East, and Asia:Celebrating, ping-ponging, and smiling… Conscription, devaluation, turmoil…Roaring, cheering, relaxing… Gas, tourism, and oil…Pretending, forcing, forgetting… Sanction, sanction, sanction…Tanks, drones, and nuclear weapons… Why do they play with the soil?Why do they keep laughing? One would not call the poem…