What a day! Here what has happened on Dec 19, 2018 in approximate chronological order: • The Wall Street Journal reported that Saudi-Israeli backchannel rapprochement took a hit after two officials close to the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman were suspended from office because of their involvement in the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal
Turkish media associations react to the words of President Tayyip Erdoğan on Dec 17 targeting a Turkish journalist, Fatih Portakal working for the Fox TV-Turkey as the main news bulletin anchor. Mocking with his surname, Portakal, which means the orange fruit in Turkish, Erdoğan said the following in a public speck in Konya: “Someone comes
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Dec 16 that Turkey could consider to work with Bashar al-Assad in Syria if Assad would come to power through a democratic election. The statement Çavuşoğlu made during the Doha Conference marks the most significant change in Turkey’s Syria policy since the early stages of the Syria civil
According to the mood in the American administration, the U.S. relations with Turkey is the most problematic one by far, not even closer to the current strains with China or Russia. And that is exactly the mood in the Turkish government circles regarding its most important ally and it is likely to be tested once
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said he regret that he missed the opportunity to “complete” what the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had started by opening up the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during the leaders’ conference of the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires on Nov 30-Dec 1. In a press conference after the