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It is understood that the meeting on June 29 between MİT President İbrahim Kalın and Hamas Shura Council President Muhammed Ismail Darwish, as announced by Turkish security sources, was conducted under four main topics: 1- The humanitarian tragedy in Gaza, 2- Turkish efforts with the international community to end Gaza’s humanitarian crisis and destruction, ensuring
After five years, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had the opportunity to meet face-to-face again with U.S. President Donald Trump, whom he calls his “friend,” at the NATO Summit held in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 24-25. However, unlike Erdoğan’s meetings with leaders from Germany, France, the UK, or the host Netherlands, which were held with
The U.S. Struck Iran at Israel’s Request. The U.S. launched B-2 heavy bombers from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, with a 37-hour flight involving mid-air refueling, to drop reportedly six bunker-busting bombs on three Iranian nuclear facilities in Isfahan, Natanz, and Fordow, early on June 22, local time. While both European leaders and Turkish
Turkish National Defense Minister Yaşar Güler said on June 18 that, “Due to recent events in Iran, security measures at our borders have been heightened.” Güler made this statement after conducting inspections and reviews along the Turkish-Iranian border in Van province, accompanied by the Chief of General Staff, General Metin Gürak, and senior commanders. In
Israeli warplanes launched a major airstrike on Iran in the early hours of June 13. The attack targeted military and nuclear facilities, killing Iran’s Chief of General Staff Mohammad Bagheri, Revolutionary Guards Commander Hossein Salami, and 6 scientists involved in Iran’s nuclear program. The Natanz nuclear reactor was also hit. Reports claim Airospace Forces Commander
The front page of the Yeni Şafak newspaper on May 26 surprised those who saw it and was widely discussed in political and economic circles. The headline of Yeni Şafak (New Dawn in Turkish), one of the staunchest supporters of President Tayyip Erdoğan and the AKP government, read in large letters, “Interest rates up, foreign
Russian and Ukrainian delegations met in İstanbul on May 16 for possible peace talks. These are the third round of negotiations between the two countries, since the Russian war on Ukraine started in 2022; the previous two were also held in Türkiye with the mediation of the Turkish government. This time, a high-ranking US delegation
The PKK’s decision on May 12 to give up the armed struggle and dissolve itself means crossing another important threshold in terms of the possibility of ending the era of widespread political violence in Türkiye. From now on, even if the process is undermined and fails to produce results, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
On May 9, Ayşegül Doğan, the spokesperson of the Kurdish-problem-focused DEM Party, was telling reporters that it was only a matter of time before the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) could announce its Congress on laying down arms and dissolving itself. Some half an hour later, the PKK announced that they had convened the Congress