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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)
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
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has again found Türkiye in the wrong in Osman Kavala’s second application alleging violations of his rights. In its ruling announced at the hearing on 25 August, the Court found that Türkiye had violated six articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR),
Ukrainian Ambassador Naryman Dzhelialov said that they, too, were saddened by the deaths of civilians as a result of civilian cargo ships being struck in the Black Sea, but that it should also be understood that a war is currently under way in the region. Dzhelialov also commented on the civilian vessels struck by Ukrainian
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s description of Israel’s strike on the Abu al-Duhur military airbase, near Syria’s border with Türkiye and undergoing repairs, by Israeli jets early on the morning of August 18 as a “message to Türkiye” in a statement to the Israeli Army Radio’s podcast service on the evening of August 18, further
The framework law, the key document serving as the roadmap for implementing the “Terror-Free Türkiye” process, was approved by a clear majority in a vote held in the General Assembly of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (TBMM) on August 10. The bill for the law, whose full name is the “Law on Strengthening National
When U.S. President Donald Trump announces that he is about to launch the biggest attack yet against Iran, only to call it off at the last minute, that in itself has become newsworthy. Yet what truly matters is a single sentence he uttered while explaining aboard Air Force One why the latest strike had been
The expected has happened. Speaking at the CHP parliamentary group meeting on 21 July, which he described as arriving “with the sadness of a farewell whose time has come,” Özgür Özel announced that he and his allies would establish a new political party. The party is expected to be formally launched by the beginning of
Russian Ambassador to Ankara Sergey Vershinin, will host an intriguing event on 16 July. In fact, it is a joint initiative with China’s Ambassador to Ankara Jiang Xuebin , though the venue has been set as the Russian Embassy. A conference will mark the 25th anniversary of the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation between Russia
For Turkey, there are effectively two summits taking place in Ankara. One is the NATO summit, where the Alliance is expected to enter what many describe as its new “3.0 era.” The other is the bilateral meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President Donald Trump. Only about ten days ago, Trump told NATO