Turkey has not signed a new document concerning for the purchase of new S-400 missile system, a Turkish official told Reuters, after Russian official’s statement that Turkey and Russia have signed a contract for the delivery of a second regiment of the S-400s prompted rumors about a new contract. “A corresponding agreement has already been
A few days before it was announced that President Tayyip Erdogan was going to Sochi to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 5, there was an assassination operation carried out by the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) and the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) on Syrian territory. One of the key PKK members in Syria,
The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation on July 14 that can be regarded as living proof of the anti-Türkiye sentiment in the Congress. The House approved the measure with the amendment that would bar the U.S to sell or transfer the jets to Türkiye including a description of concrete steps taken to ensure that
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The US Department of Defense, Pentagon, more precisely Central Command responsible for Middle East Operations (CENTCOM), announced on July 12 that it had killed ISIS’s Syria chief, Mahir al-Agal. According to the Americans, al-Agal, one of five members of the IS administration, was shot “outside Jindires in northwestern Syria,” and another ISIS leader with him
The four-way meeting with Russia, Ukraine, UN and Türkiye delegations in a bid to resolve the grain crisis in the Black held in Istanbul Türkiye. The military delegations of the Ministry of Defense of Turkey, the Russian Federation and Ukraine and the United Nations delegation convened in Istanbul on July 13 in a one and
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The recent trilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between Turkey, Sweden, and Finland, which set the stage for the most successful NATO summit since the Ukraine crisis started, reminded me of Obama’s leading from behind doctrine. The phrase was first coined by the Obama administration to describe President Obama’s Libyan strategy; leading from behind. While
Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin was a Russian general who was one of the architects of Russia’s 18th century expansionism. He was also a statesman and one of the lovers of Czarina Katerina II. He was devoted to establishing a new Byzantine Empire under the rule of Russia with Czarina Katerina II by dismantling the Ottoman Empire;
A day before the Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan departed for the Madrid NATO Summit on 28-29 June, Baykar, the manufacturer of Bayraktar TB2 armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), released an interesting statement. According to the release published in Turkish, English, and Ukrainian, 3 TB2 drone were donated to Ukraine, not for money raised by the