Journalist-Writer
Before the impact of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s announcement that he would not attend the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) Summit in Ankara had even begun to fade, a report from Baku triggered a new rift in Türkiye-Azerbaijan relations. For quite some time, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had been lobbying for Feridun Sinirlioğlu, Secretary General
Ahead of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to the United States to attend the UN General Assembly on September 22, Ankara announced two economic sanctions against Iran, shortly before his expected meeting with President Donald Trump. The first came on September 16, when the Civil Aviation Directorate General of the Ministry of Transport announced that
US President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff left Moscow empty-handed after receiving a lecture from Russian President Vladimir Putin during his September 5 visit to discuss the war in Ukraine. On September 6, the day he was due to deliver the bad news to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD)
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his partners “must now be stopped.” Speaking at a press conference in Istanbul, Fidan said the following in response to a question about anti-Turkish rhetoric in Israel: • “Netanyahu, who has become the common enemy of humanity, the international community and security—I underline this,
It was announced by its leader, Mazloum Abdi, in Damascus on the evening of August 25 that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had dissolved itself and joined the Syrian army. Abdi made the announcement at the Presidential Palace after meeting with President Ahmed al-Sharaa. He was wearing not guerrilla clothes but a smart suit, just
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has again found Türkiye in the wrong in Osman Kavala’s second application alleging violations of his rights. In its ruling announced at the hearing on 25 August, the Court found that Türkiye had violated six articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR),
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s description of Israel’s strike on the Abu al-Duhur military airbase, near Syria’s border with Türkiye and undergoing repairs, by Israeli jets early on the morning of August 18 as a “message to Türkiye” in a statement to the Israeli Army Radio’s podcast service on the evening of August 18, further