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High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell Fontelles delivered a speech concerning Turkey in the European Parliament on Sept. 15. In the core part of his speech, he named Turkey among the countries that want to enliven the “old empire,” adding that this is a new situation confronting the EU.New
The recent book “Rage” by American journalist Bob Woodward, one of the two journalists who had exposed the famous Watergate scandal, wrote that U.S. President Donald Trump knew the terrible impact of the Covid-19 epidemic but hid it from the public under the pretext of “not demoralizing” the people. Trump, on the other hand, said
Let me fix the headline first since I should have said “politicians like Emannuel Macron.” However, it is the French leader who challenges Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan today, so this article focuses on him.Though it is a little late, Germans know today that confrontation is political nutrition for Erdoğan. First, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, then Chancellor
President Tayyip Erdoğan has been saying that everything is fine, but many key issues tend to get out of control. Let’s start listing the problems without further ado. Uncontrolled herd immunity 1- The coronavirus epidemic has spread again, starting to collapse the morale of society. The Covid-19 outbreak, which regressed due to restrictive -but not
The demand for the reinstatement of the death penalty is too serious an issue to be called a diversion. And this time though, it hits the Turkish society on a particularly sensitive spot. Discussions of the death penalty are coming up just as an Islamist sect sheik got arrested on charges of sexually harassing the
It was obvious from day one that the Turkish-Greek crisis in the East Mediterranean would not turn into a war. Not because of the strong statements by the European Union (EU) threatening Turkey with sanctions. The EU has long lost political leverage over Turkey, and mainly due to Cyprus. However, whether you like it or
Turkey’s war on COVID is not going well at a time when the economy is also not performing well. TÜİK, the state-run statistic institute, announced on Aug. 31 that the economy shrank 9.9 percent in the second quarter of the year. The additional efforts to prevent a double-digit figure might surface when experts write on
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas discussed the escalating tension in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean first with his Greek counterpart, Nikos Dendios, in Athens, and then with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in Ankara on 25 August. Maas will share his impression from these meetings at the European Union (EU) Foreign Ministers Meeting in Berlin
While watching President Tayyip Erdoğan announcing at a ceremony the natural gas discovery in the Black Sea, I also had the impression that we are witnessing the ceremony for the announcement of a successor to him. Of course, neither Erdoğan is the sultan nor his son-in-law and Treasury and Finance Berat Albayrak is the crown
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan announced on Aug. 21 the country’s largest-ever natural gas reserve discovery. Drilling ship Fatih found a natural gas reserve of 320 billion cubic meters in the “Tuna-1” field, close to the exclusive economic zone borders of Romania and Bulgaria, about 175 km northwest off the Turkish coastal town of Karadeniz Ereğli.