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A 4-day ceasefire, hostage exchange, and humanitarian aid delivery agreement between Israel and Hamas in Gaza have been announced in the first hours of November 22. Israel and Hamas agreed on a “humanitarian pause” to the crisis that started on October 7 when Hamas attacked Israel and killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and has continued
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan continues his series of renouncing his actions and rules. Let us list the first ones that come to mind. The supremacy of ECHR rulings according to Article 90 of the Constitution, has come up for discussion again with the recent judicial crisis. Exiting the İstanbul Convention against violence against women. The
When German Chancellor Olaf Scholz telephoned President Tayyip Erdoğan on May 29 to congratulate him on his re-election and at the same time invited him, what he had in mind was not to further deteriorate, and perhaps even improve, relations with the leader of Türkiye, whom he sees as a “difficult partner” who will lead
Turkish National Defence Minister Yaşar Güler said Türkiye is considering to buy 40 Eurofighter jets ahead of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s tense Germany visit, raising number of questions. “We want to buy the Eurofighter. It is a very effective aircraft. These planes are related to the UK, Germany and Spain. Both the UK and Spain
Preparations for President Tayyip Erdoğan’s working visit to Germany on November 17 have been underway for months. It was hoped that the invitation made by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in his congratulatory phone call after Erdoğan’s re-election on May 28 would bring a breath of fresh air not only to Turkey-Germany relations but also to
The extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League convened on the Gaza Crisis held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on November 11th. In the harsh final declaration, Muslim-majority countries raised their voices in unison against Israel’s aggression against Palestinians. The leaders of 58 countries, claiming to represent more than 2 billion
The news that the Chief Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation sent a letter to the 3rd Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals on November 7, stating that the Constitutional Court had “exceeded its authority” in ordering the release of Can Atalay, not only showed that another decision of the Constitutional Court
It would be a geostrategic fallacy to see US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s November 2-10 tour of the Middle East and Asia as solely about the Gaza Crisis. Likewise, it would be an exaggeration to say that the US and the European Union have put Ukraine aside because of its support for Israel, even
The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) changed its leader at a highly contested November 4 congress, and delegates elected young Parliamentary Group Chair Özgür Özel to replace Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who refused to resign despite his failure in the presidential and parliamentary elections that took place in May. The 49-year-old pharmacist challenged the 13-year-old Kılıçdaroğlu-chairmanship
“We are journalists, we will continue to do journalism”. This was journalist Tolga Şardan’s response to a young colleague who asked him on November 1, “Tolga Abi, do you have anything to say?” as he was being taken to Ankara’s Sincan Prison after being arrested for his column published on the T24 news website on