Recent developments over the past week indicate a concerted effort to disrupt the delicate balance of “active neutrality” that Türkiye has been trying to maintain within the US–EU–NATO triangle, against the backdrop of what increasingly appears as a US-backed Israel–Iran war. The cards are now being played face up; there is little need for concealment
Once the master of the seas and an architect of the global order, Britain today still speaks with the reflexes of a great power—yet no longer acts with the same capacity. The issue is not merely relative decline. It is the widening gap between perception and reality. London’s rhetoric remains that of a major power,
On the evening of April 11, when it became clear that the first round of talks between the United States and Iran in Pakistan would yield no results, Benjamin Netanyahu took to his X account with a message targeting both Türkiye and the Kurds: “Under my leadership, Israel will continue to fight against Iran’s terrorist
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met President Tayyip Erdoğan in Istanbul on April 4. We do not know whether the timing of the visit was deliberately arranged, but since he was already in Istanbul—and as it coincided with Easter—he also visited Patriarch Bartholomew. Later, in a move that, like his Istanbul visit, had not been announced
When the war of words with CHP leader Özgür Özel is stripped out of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s April 1 address to the AK Party parliamentary group, what remains is in fact an important message aimed at external audiences. Reading between the lines, the message highlights concern that the Iran war—launched by the United States