At around the same time, the NATO Defense Ministers’ video-meeting has started on June 17 afternoon, a Turkish plane has landed at Tripoli airport in Libya. Semi-official Anadolu Agency soon started to file footage of a high-rank Turkish delegation welcomed by Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Al-Sarraj. The delegation was led by Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu,

“Let’s suppose you’re Prime Minister again,” I asked, perhaps I should have said President now, “what would your priority be?” The weather outside is overcast, with lighting flashes; a storm is about to start. There were a few days left for the opening of the Party’s headquarters. We hold our meeting in the reception room

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan was live on Turkey’s public broadcaster TRT on the night of June 8, 2020. Erdoğan was delighted when the moderator asked her pre-ordered question about his telephone call with Trump a few hours ago. According to Erdoğan, upon hearing Turkey’s coronavirus statistics, Trump had said “wow” in surprise. They then spoke

January 2020 was a turning point in terms of Turkish-Italian relations. It would soon become clear that this wasn’t limited to diplomatic relations. We now learned that the two countries were conducting a joint intelligence operation amid the COVID-19 epidemic. Nevertheless, the most evident aspect, at the time, had to do with diplomacy. Because before

The majority of the restrictions applied for more than two months due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak got lifted on June 1. Parliament will remain open until the end of July, so for about two months. There’s a fundamental question here. Will the legislation proposals brought to Parliament during this time aim to recover the

On May 20, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump about the Covid-19 pandemic and also about Libya. Macron had concerns about “worsening foreign intervention” in Libya. He was asking the U.S. to dissuade Turkey from giving military support to the Libyan government. Because thanks to the Turkish military consultants and unmanned

We say “in Ankara” out of habit, to mean Turkish politics, but President Tayyip Erdoğan has been in Istanbul for more than two months. After chairing a meeting in Ankara about the measures against Covid-19 in Çankaya Palace, he moved to İstanbul. The Huber Mansion in Tarabya is considered safer against the disease. With the

At first, I thought this was merely a social media attack of the Pelican Mansion group. This think-tank/media group was founded in parallel to Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) social media efforts from a Bosporus mansion called “Pelican”, mainly for public opinion manipulation. It turned out that the #NationalAccountsHere (#MilliHesaplarBurada) operation was the

Other than those who did not give their minds blindly to their beliefs, understood the importance of science and technology in our lives after the break of the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. Physicians, statisticians suddenly started to give direction to our lives. We witnessed that factories designed to manufacture refrigerators, autos, or UAVs have started to