(R) Ambassador
The recent trilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between Turkey, Sweden, and Finland, which set the stage for the most successful NATO summit since the Ukraine crisis started, reminded me of Obama’s leading from behind doctrine. The phrase was first coined by the Obama administration to describe President Obama’s Libyan strategy; leading from behind. While
Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin was a Russian general who was one of the architects of Russia’s 18th century expansionism. He was also a statesman and one of the lovers of Czarina Katerina II. He was devoted to establishing a new Byzantine Empire under the rule of Russia with Czarina Katerina II by dismantling the Ottoman Empire;
The Ukraine crisis has once again catapulted Turkey to the top of the global policymaking agenda. Seizing the moment, the Government of Turkey has fulfilled its responsibilities in line with the Montreux Convention preventing new Russian military vessels from entering the Black Sea, and has also managed to stay neutral enough to position itself as
On January 6, 1955, Turkey’s late Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, flew to Baghdad at the invitation of the Iraqi and Lebanese governments respectively. The visit was organized to reciprocate the state visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Said to Turkey in the fall of 1954. Nuri Said (Pasha) who graduated from an Ottoman military academy
Russia caused a seismic shock throughout the World by invading Ukraine. Nothing will be the same again and the Ukraine crisis will be recorded in history as a milestone in international relations. A new generation cold war we all knew had started before the Russian attack on Ukraine, once again dividing East and West, will
The Russia-Ukraine crisis has shown that the use of force in the 21st century can cause serious public backlash. And even in countries that are party to the conflict, the public antagonizes against harming civilians. Reports that only 12 percent of the Russia population is supporting the war against Ukraine – if accurate – illustrate
Four global players will define how our near future will look: the United States (US), the European Union (EU), China and Russia. The relationship between these “four horsemen of the Apocalypse” will – to a large degree – determine the new World Order. All indications today are that we are moving towards an even more
I want to start with a sentence attributed to Vladimir Ilich Lenin: “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen”. This could not be more applicable to recent developments in global politics. Turkey’s recent rapprochement of Israel is a good example that fits this description. The Government of Turkey seems
Turkish foreign policy has gone through a dramatic change in the past decade under Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule, long before Turkey’s transition to the presidential system after the constitutional amendment come into effect with a referendum in 2017. From the first day of its coming to power in 2002 until today, the ruling