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Countries have expanded, merged, shrunk, or even disappeared over time. These days, we are hearing about...
Syrian FM in Ankara: Erdoğan pursues twin strategy on Kurdish issue and Syria
15 January 2025 Syria's interim Foreign Minister Assad Hassan al-Shibani met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on January 15...
As opposition defends its mayors, Erdoğan sets sights on extended Presidency
14 January 2025 In light of recent developments, the CHP Central Headquarters is running out of options: as consecutive...
What does Erdoğan want? Decoding Türkiye’s latest Kurdish initiative
8 January 2025 "Separatist terrorists will either bury their weapons immediately or be buried alongside them. There is no...
Game changers year 2024: From Turkish elections to global power plays
31 December 2024 When selecting the person and event of the year for 2024 in both domestic and foreign...
PKK leader Öcalan’s prison message: Two key sentences
30 December 2024 The first tangible outcome of the "Öcalan Initiative" - which MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli initiated by...
New battleground in Turkish politics: Syria versus economic relief
26 December 2024 When President Tayyip Erdoğan began reciting the opening verses of Surah Al-Fath in Arabic during his...
Turkish Interior Minister: “25,000 Syrian refugees returned home this month”
24 December 2024 Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced a sevenfold increase in the number of Syrian refugees voluntarily...
Golani’s necktie, Ankara’s operation and crackdown on journalists
23 December 2024 Last weekend, journalist Nevşin Mengü faced investigation over an interview, leading to her detention and subsequent...
A call for stability and reconstruction in the Middle East
21 December 2024 By Mehmet Öğütçü and Rainer Geiger The Middle East, scarred by years of political instability and...
The US Military once again defies Trump on Syria
21 December 2024 The US Military once again defies Trump on Syria. The Pentagon is pushing back against Donald...
New Syria: Unified army, reconstruction, constitution, and Türkiye’s role
20 December 2024 Assad is gone, but I believe toughest challenge for Syria is just beginning. Israel has virtually...
“Hun be xer Hatîn”: How three words signal Türkiye’s Kurdish policy shift
19 December 2024 The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and Kurdish-issue focused DEM Party continue to confound their adversaries -...
Syria in transition: Power shifts, promises, and pitfalls
16 December 2024 Intelligence suggests that the operation to overthrow Assad's regime in Syria was meticulously planned for over...
The vicious cycle of poverty and violence in the Islamic World
16 December 2024 As a diplomat, businessman, and traveler, I have visited 135 countries. In many of them, I...
Turkish FM: “A phone call from Moscow and Tehran ended Assad regime”
13 December 2024 Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan disclosed that Bashar al-Assad's departure from power came following direct pressure...
- 16/08/2019in Politics
Turkish Defence Minister at Syria border to urge U.S. for prompt joint action
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... - 18/07/2019in Politics
Turkey asks U.S. to revoke its F-35 removal decision to avoid “irreparable damage” in ties.
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 ... - 03/12/2018in Turkish Foreign Relations Analysis Forecast
Erdoğan couldn’t say “One minute!” to the Saudi Crown Prince
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said he regret that he missed the opportunity to “complete” what the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had started by opening up the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during the leaders’ conference of the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires on Nov 30-Dec 1. In a press conference after the... - 23/07/2019in Politics
More U.S. sanctions might further push Turkey toward Russia
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... - 03/03/2019in Politics
Russian missiles separate NATO allies U.S. and Turkey
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...