Russian Ambassador to Ankara Sergey Vershinin, will host an intriguing event on 16 July. In fact, it is a joint initiative with China's Ambassador to Ankara Jiang Xuebin , though the...
Erdoğan Expects Trump to Keep His Word, Trump Expects Europe to Keep Theirs
For Turkey, there are effectively two summits taking place in Ankara. One is the NATO summit, where the Alliance is...
Ankara Summit Marks the Birth of NATO’s New Cold War Era
If you view NATO's July 7–8 Ankara Summit as the founding meeting of the "New Cold War" NATO, then...
“NATO’s Outreach to the Middle East via Turkey and Trump’s Two Key Meetings”
The Western defense alliance NATO wants its members to increase military spending at the July 7-8 Ankara Summit. But this...
What Does Türkiye’s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile-ICBM-Announcement Mean?
At the SAHA defense exhibition, which opened in İstanbul on...
July Threshold in Türkiye–EU Tensions: What Did Erdoğan Really Say, and What Should Be Done?
The fact that Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz signed the agreement...
Türkiye Tightens Controls on Transit Trade of Military Materials
Murat Yetkin
19 March 2026 The Center for Combating Disinformation (DMD) stated on March 18, addressing the ongoing debate in social media and political circles over the past two days on whether Türkiye has taken...
Turkish Bosses Knock on the EU Door but Erdoğan Has a Key, Too
On January 31, the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK) published a full-page advertisement in the Financial Times. The ad was...
Why Trump’s Greenland Ambition Matters for NATO, China, Russia and Türkiye
When you rotate the Google Earth application 90 degrees vertically instead of horizontally, the map above appears, clearly revealing why...
EU-Türkiye: Political Hurdles, Business Pushes On
Everyone is aware that the main obstacle to rapprochement between Türkiye and the European Union is political. For years it...
Straying jurists cause the UK to dishonour its international undertakings
The United Kingdom (UK) prides itself on a legal system...
A Şimşek style answer to İmamoğlu questions of foreign investors
The İmamoğlu Crisis continues. Not only on the Turkish domestic...
