About Ömer Özkizilcik

Ömer Özkizilcik is a foreign policy and security analyst. Between 2018 and 2021, he worked at the Security Department of SETA Foundation. Between August 2017 and September 2018, Özkizilcik worked at the Middle East Foundation. Since 2016, he is the editor-in-chief of Suriye Gündemi. Özkizilcik’s research focuses especially on the Middle East, Turkish foreign policy, counter-terrorism, and the Syrian civil war.
16 Jun, 2022

A New Turkish-Syrian Military Operation in Syria: Navigating Other Stakeholders

Ömer Özkizilcik | 16 June 2022

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently announced that Turkey will soon launch a new military operation in northern Syria.[i] The announcement followed the debates on Sweden and Finland’s aim to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Turkish decision to block military and civilian flights to and from Syria

A New Turkish-Syrian Military Operation in Syria: Navigating Other Stakeholders2022-06-22T12:14:17+03:00
5 May, 2022

How Turkey’s anti-PKK Operations Moved from Southeast Turkey to Iraq: Context, Outcome, and Role of the KRG

Ömer Özkizilcik | 05 May 2022

How Turkey's anti-PKK Operations Moved from Southeast Turkey to Iraq: Context, Outcome, and Role of the KRG For a brief period from 2013 to 2014, it seemed that Turkey and the Kurdish militant group [...]

How Turkey’s anti-PKK Operations Moved from Southeast Turkey to Iraq: Context, Outcome, and Role of the KRG2022-06-22T11:59:39+03:00

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