Journalist-Writer
Recent developments over the past week indicate a concerted effort to disrupt the delicate balance of “active neutrality” that Türkiye has been trying to maintain within the US–EU–NATO triangle, against the backdrop of what increasingly appears as a US-backed Israel–Iran war. The cards are now being played face up; there is little need for concealment
On the evening of April 11, when it became clear that the first round of talks between the United States and Iran in Pakistan would yield no results, Benjamin Netanyahu took to his X account with a message targeting both Türkiye and the Kurds: “Under my leadership, Israel will continue to fight against Iran’s terrorist
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met President Tayyip Erdoğan in Istanbul on April 4. We do not know whether the timing of the visit was deliberately arranged, but since he was already in Istanbul—and as it coincided with Easter—he also visited Patriarch Bartholomew. Later, in a move that, like his Istanbul visit, had not been announced
When the war of words with CHP leader Özgür Özel is stripped out of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s April 1 address to the AK Party parliamentary group, what remains is in fact an important message aimed at external audiences. Reading between the lines, the message highlights concern that the Iran war—launched by the United States
The joint statement issued by the foreign ministers of “regional countries,” who convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 18 to discuss developments in the Iran war, is the kind that may one day be remembered as a victory for Israel. The only sentence in the statement that mentions Israel is the one condemning its
The Center for Combating Disinformation (DMD) stated on March 18, addressing the ongoing debate in social media and political circles over the past two days on whether Türkiye has taken sides in the Iran strike carried out by the U.S.–Israel alliance. The DMD denied claims that a presidential decree, signed by President Tayyip Erdoğan, issued
Since taking office, U.S. President Donald Trump has been showing the world the darker face that the United States has tried to conceal for the past century. He has done so with the domestic and foreign policy backing of the Israel lobby and the reactionary religious masses connected to it who call themselves “Christian Zionists.”
First, let us note that there is no precedent in history for striking the initial blow against a target country by eliminating its top leadership cadres. What we are witnessing here is an entirely different concept of warfare. In the war against Iran launched by the US–Israel alliance, let us begin by examining the positions
The first major consequence of the coordinated Israeli and U.S. attack on Iran in the early hours of February 28 was the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had ruled Iran for 37 years. It is also reported that several key figures of the Islamic Republic were killed at the very outset of
Russian forces entered Ukrainian territory four years ago today, on 24 February 2022. NATO had anticipated the attack. Just as the world was beginning to recover from the trauma of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was perhaps stepping into what could become a simmering, low-intensity world war. On 27 February 2022, Türkiye formally designated the situation