Journalist-Writer
Russia does not hide the fact that it is in favor of Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan winning the upcoming 2023 elections in Türkiye. Their domestic interests require such support. With the S-400 issue, they started a debate in NATO over Türkiye that they could not have caused if they had spent billions of dollars on
Until last week, President Tayyip Erdoğan had not been utilising the US-bashing discourse. The foreign policy items such as demand for the F-16 fighter jets, the YPG issue in Syria, and the $100 billion trade volume prevented him from using the anti-US rhetoric that would have cemented his image as a world leader in the
This was my first thought when I saw a photo of Humza Yousaf, the leader of the Scottish National Party, leading his family and Muslim team members in prayer after breaking their fast on his first day in the first minister’s residence. Could the first Muslim Prime Minister of a European Union member state be
First, let us try to explain why Türkiye lost an arbitration case brought by the Iraqi government in 2014, which resulted in Türkiye being ordered to pay 1.4 billion US dollars in compensation. We should add that he International Chamber of Commerce’s International court of Arbitration in Paris also found the Iraqi government guilty of
The title of this article could have been “What else should Kılıçdaroğlu do?”. But with the ideological and political answers to this question, the article could have stretched in two different directions, which would have been insufficient to explain the front-politics that brought Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the CHP and the presidential candidate of
The general fuss over presidential candidate nominations in Ankara seems to settle down after Kurdish-issue focused People’s Democracy Party (HDP) and its Labor and Freedom Alliance announced that they would not nominate any presidential candidate. While their indirect support to six-party opposition alliance’s candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu stirred yet another debate, the other 11 candidates, who
It was a few hours after the New Welfare Party (Yeniden Refah Partisi) leader Fatih Erbakan announced that his political-islamist party refused to endorse the ruling People’s Alliance in the elections after meetings with President Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) officials. Erbakan not only refused to support, but also announced his candidacy for
Russian Ambassador to Ankara Aleksei Erkhov held a press conference in Ankara on the evening of March 15. The meeting was not at the Russian Embassy, but at the Russian House, a Russian cultural center. The ostensible purpose of the meeting was to show a documentary film titled “Liberation,” which shows how the Donetsk and
Fear Not! The election video released by the opposition Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi) on March 12 began with this word on the screen. The date is the 102nd anniversary of the adoption of the National Anthem by the Turkish Grand National Assembly. The anthem, written by Mehmet Akif Ersoy and composed by Osman Zeki Üngör
The photograph above is taken on March 9, 2023 in Brussels. President Tayyip Erdoğan’s Chief Foreign and Security Policy Advisor and Spokesperson, İbrahim Kalın, with Deputy Foreign Minister Burak Akçapar on his left, holing a press conference. The topic is whether Türkiye should give its approval to Sweden and Finland, two countries that want to join