Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar has paid an unscheduled visit to the built-up Turkish troops in Şanlıurfa at Syria border on August 16 with Chief of Joint Staff General Yaşar Güler and force commanders. The obvious aim of the visit is to supervise the process of establishing a Joint Operation Centre with the U.S. forces...

A Pentagon announcement was made on July 17 about removing Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet program because of Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400 missiles. The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a strong statement in response, in the later hours, asking the U.S. to revoke the decision “which will ...

The Turkish service of the Russian Sputnik channel ended the political show of three Turkish journalists on July 19, a day after they interviewed Ahmet Davutoğlu, the former prime minister of President Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) but now one of the in-house dissidents in preparations of a new party. Ironically, when asked...

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...

KONDA, one of Turkey’s leading polling companies, has recently claimed that Ekrem İmamoğlu, the opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) candidate for the Istanbul might get far ahead of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Binali Yıldırım by up to 8 points on the municipal election re-run on June 23. After the results were released and...