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What would President Trump ask from Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan if he were allowed to ask for one thing only? An American official talking to a group of Turks on condition of anonymity recently asked that rhetorical question and continued without waiting for the Turks to answer: it would be to cancel the Russian S-400
Turkish navy launched its biggest ever military exercise on February 27 amid rising tensions in the Middle East, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. On February 26, during a press conference in the Turkish Navy Command in Gölcük, Northwest Turkey, Rear Admiral Yankı Bağcıoğlu, Chief of Operations of the Turkish Naval Forces spoke about a
• A test with polls: Mirror, mirror on the wall… As Turkey is heading for the March 31 local elections, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that he no longer trusted public opinion polls. Before this new line, he has been denouncing opposition parties as collaborators of terrorism. According to Erdoğan, polling companies which used
I wonder how the Turkish “mainstream” media could report the deaths of 21 people under a collapsed building on February 7, if President Tayyip Erdoğan didn’t go and inspect the site and deliver a speech two days later; the authorities had immediately imposed a broadcast ban over the incident. There were a number of such
Former Turkish President Abdullah Gül warned against authoritarian rule and populism during a panel discussion last week saying it will lead to social polarization inside and in foreign policy, as well as to conflicts and wars. Speaking in a panel discussion in Istanbul during the 22nd Eurasian Economy Summit by the Marmara Group on Feb
The U.S. call on the Venezuelan army to betray the President Nicolas Maduro of the country on behalf of the Speaker of Parliament Juan Guadio, whom was recognized as “interim president” by Donald Trump of the U.S. on Jan 23. That call included a huge bribe such as the possibility of lifting sanctions on Venezuela,
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s biggest problem ahead of the key March 31 local elections is economic difficulties which occupied the first two ranks of a survey revealed on Jan 30 in Istanbul, hurting people more than terrorism after a number of years. According to the annual “social-political tendencies research” of the Center for Turkish
Some 82 percent of Turks perceive the U.S. as the biggest threat to national security a credible academic study in Turkey revealed on January 30. According to the annual research results of the Center for Turkish Studies (CTRS) of the Kadir Has University (KHAS) in Istanbul 81.9 percent of Turkish citizens think the biggest source
A dinner given by Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko tonight on Jan 5 in honor of Patriarch Bartholomew in Istanbul may have repercussions in regional politics. Another guest of honor of the dinner at Conrad Hotel in Istanbul is Metropolit Ephifanios of Kiev whose independence (autocephaly) from the Moscow church was approved earlier in the day