Ahead of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to the United States to attend the UN General Assembly on September 22, Ankara announced two economic sanctions against Iran, shortly before his expected meeting with President Donald Trump. The first came on September 16, when the Civil Aviation Directorate General of the Ministry of Transport announced that
Recent developments in Paris point to a noticeable shift in Europe’s understanding of security. On Friday, 18 September, Emmanuel Macron brought together political party leaders and figures expected to play prominent roles in the next presidential election at the Élysée Palace. Yet politicians were not the only people around the table. Senior representatives from domestic
US President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff left Moscow empty-handed after receiving a lecture from Russian President Vladimir Putin during his September 5 visit to discuss the war in Ukraine. On September 6, the day he was due to deliver the bad news to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD)
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his partners “must now be stopped.” Speaking at a press conference in Istanbul, Fidan said the following in response to a question about anti-Turkish rhetoric in Israel: • “Netanyahu, who has become the common enemy of humanity, the international community and security—I underline this,
Ratko Mladić is dead. But his death has reopened one of the darkest chapters in the Balkans, a chapter many believed had been closed three decades ago. Mladić was the commander of the Bosnian Serb Army during the Bosnian War. He was convicted of genocide in Srebrenica, crimes against humanity and war crimes, and was
It was announced by its leader, Mazloum Abdi, in Damascus on the evening of August 25 that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had dissolved itself and joined the Syrian army. Abdi made the announcement at the Presidential Palace after meeting with President Ahmed al-Sharaa. He was wearing not guerrilla clothes but a smart suit, just