About Mehmet Alaca

Mehmet Alaca is an academic researcher focusing on Iraq, regional Kurdish politics, and Shi’a militias in the Middle East. He is currently an Ankara-based diplomatic correspondent and a non-resident fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (ORSAM). Mehmet holds an MA from the Department of Politics and International Relations of the Middle East at Exeter University in the United Kingdom. Twitter: @mehmtalaca
22 Aug, 2022

Banning ties with Israel, Iraq shakes finger to inside and outside of the country

Mehmet Alaca | 22 August 2022 | TR

Amid Iraq’s months-long ongoing government formation crisis since the 1 October 2021 general elections, the Iraqi parliament has recently passed a law that criminalizes relations with Israel. Although the law at first glance seems to have covered up the political dead-lock and gathered all the rival groups in support of the law, it is in fact in closely related to the both domestic and regional relations surrounding Iraq

Banning ties with Israel, Iraq shakes finger to inside and outside of the country2022-08-25T14:31:59+03:00
17 Jun, 2022

After Lebanese Elections: Another loss for Iran?
Will Electoral Defeats in Lebanon and Iraq truly harm Iranian regional interests?

Mehmet Alaca Bekir Aydogan | 17 June 2022

After Lebanese Elections: Another loss for Iran? what stands next for lebanon after key elections Suffering a deep economic crisis with 80 percent of its population living below the poverty line, only 41 percent [...]

After Lebanese Elections: Another loss for Iran?
Will Electoral Defeats in Lebanon and Iraq truly harm Iranian regional interests?2022-06-22T12:14:35+03:00
18 Mar, 2022

Political Representation of Iraq’s Minorities: Tool for Dominant Parties?

Mehmet Alaca Bekir Aydogan | 18 March 2022

Ethnic and religious minorities are given official quotas both in Iraqi and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) parliaments. While the given quotas are limited to certain numbers, some of the minorities do not have any quotas

Political Representation of Iraq’s Minorities: Tool for Dominant Parties?2022-09-27T12:00:49+03:00
2 Mar, 2021

Book review: Marc Lynch, The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East

Public Affairs: New York, 2016, 304 pp

Mehmet Alaca | 02 March 2021

Specifically, the book discusses the roots, trajectories, and consequences of the Arab uprisings for the region. It consists of nine chapters that focus on the greater region, from Tunisia and Egypt to the unrelieved chaos in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen

Book review: Marc Lynch, The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East

Public Affairs: New York, 2016, 304 pp2022-04-26T10:57:09+03:00

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