Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on June 29, reacted harshly to the Quran burning demonstration in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden; further hinting that Türkiye will not lift its veto on Sweden’s NATO bid prior to critical Vilnius Summit to be held in July. “Those who perpetrated this crime, as well as those who allowed
The Wagner uprising did not topple Russian President Vladimir Putin, but it shook his seat, reduced his power, and, if not all, shook his charisma. Putin’s claim that he now has full domestic support in the face of NATO pressure over the Ukraine war will no longer be as convincing as before. Among those breathing
The only common feature of the diplomatic contacts of Türkiye in the last few days, especially after the new bureaucracy was formed with the critical elections, is the focus on the fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK). With Hakan Fidan, to whom President Tayyip Erdoğan entrusted the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) for thirteen
Following a two-day contraversy over his health condition after falling ill during a live television broadcast, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appeared on a video conference for the inauguration ceremony of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant on April 27, resolving the rumours that he was gravely ill or even hospitalised. Russian President Vladimir Putin was
Russian Ambassador to Ankara Aleksei Erkhov held a press conference in Ankara on the evening of March 15. The meeting was not at the Russian Embassy, but at the Russian House, a Russian cultural center. The ostensible purpose of the meeting was to show a documentary film titled “Liberation,” which shows how the Donetsk and
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Ankara would approve Finland’s NATO membership as Finnish President Sauli Niinistö is expected to visit Türkiye. “We will keep our promise. After meeting with the President (Niinistö) upon his visit on Friday, we will keep our promise we made,” Erdoğan said on March 15, answering a question about Finland’s
The photograph above is taken on March 9, 2023 in Brussels. President Tayyip Erdoğan’s Chief Foreign and Security Policy Advisor and Spokesperson, İbrahim Kalın, with Deputy Foreign Minister Burak Akçapar on his left, holing a press conference. The topic is whether Türkiye should give its approval to Sweden and Finland, two countries that want to join
The international courtesy visits to Türkiye following the devastating earthquakes that destroyed a dozen cities continue with diplomatic turns. On February 27, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry was welcomed by Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in Adana. Following the 2013 coup in his country, he was the first Egyptian Foreign Minister to visit Türkiye in a
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said that the recent decision of several western countries to close their consulates as a precaution against a possible terror attack, aims at “starting a new psychological warfare in Türkiye,” adding that “it is an international operation against Türkiye.” “The ambassadors who wanted to carry out a legal operation against
I asked Portuguese Foreign Minister João Gomez Cravinho, whom I met with a small group of journalists after his visit to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavuşoğlu in Ankara, how would Portugal react if Türkiye approved only Finland’s NATO application and not Sweden’s, even though they applied together? The question is meaningful because decisions in NATO