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Russia clearly sees the duel of words between Turkey and Greece as a “fishermen’s fight” where none of the parties hit hard to their opponent to prevent the boat from capsizing. In Syria, calculations are changed, the PKK scenario in NATO is different from what we are told. Before elaborating on them, we must first
Although both Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan and his unofficial coalition partner Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli almost every day say, “There is no early election,” the claims that early elections will be announced this fall are incessant. The allegations became flesh and bone when the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal
President Tayyip Erdoğan, who lectures everyone on politics taken the moral high ground, asked main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu 10 questions in his speech in which he defamed his political opponents with expressions such as “slut” and “rotten” in his ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) parliamentary group meeting. CHP leader
While President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was at a a opening-ceremony-turned-into-a-grand-rally for a grand construction project that aims to transform closed Atatürk Airport in Istanbul into a massive recreational area named “Nation’s Garden” withon the evening of the May 29, the leaders of the six opposition parties were holding their longest meeting in Ankara which lasted
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on May 23 that National Security Council (MGK) will discuss a new military operation into Syria at their next meeting to be held on May 26. The statement came after Erdoğan’s cabinet meeting and it was not a usual one. The president had previously announced cross-border military operations, but
These days, whatever you say on social media is spreading faster than the speed of sound. The opposition spread “flash news/breaking news” while the government-supporters other, regardless of what that news entails. One of the examples of these “breaking news” that dissident social media users blindly shared without fact-checking was the news alleged that the
The crisis sparked by Sweden and Finland’s applications for NATO membership amid the Ukraine war, as well as Turkey’s veto manoeuvre, has entered a new phase. The diplomatic relations have shifted their focus to the US. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met with his US counterpart, Antony Blinken, in New York on May 18. Çavuşoğlu
Sweden and Finland rely on the USA to make Turkey vote for thier NATO membership by putting pressure, and they do not change their tone. They act on the assumption that Turkey does not want to put NATO in a weak position against Russia, which continues its invasion operation in Ukraine, and they hope that
Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has been spending almost all weekends in Istanbul, but when he went there after the Ramadan Eid, the situation was not very bright for CHP. The trial of the Gezi Protests resulted in Osman Kavala being sentenced to life imprisonment and 7 of his friends in
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s statement on May 13 that Turkey would not consider Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership favorably, has exposed the conflict that has been going on behind closed doors since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The plan to make Sweden and Finland, which are members of the European Union but not NATO members,