When President Tayyip Erdoğan mentioned the possibility of Türkiye parting ways with the European Union on his way to New York for the United Nations General Assembly, no one from the EU has so far said “Don’t go, stay; we’ll give you what you want”. Perhaps there is an expectation among the Turkish President and
The US administration imposed sanctions 5 Turkish companies and 1 Turkish citizen for violating US sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine war, Reuters reported on September 14. “For the past 18 months, we’ve shared our concerns with the Turkish government and private sector and informed them of the significant risks of doing business with those
In an unexpected move, Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan linked Sweden’s application to the Western defense alliance NATO on July 10 with practically frozen relations of Türkiye with the European Union (EU). “First, let’s pave the way for Türkiye in the EU, and then we will pave the way for Sweden just as we did for
The second round of elections in Greece took place on Sunday, June 25, ending two months of the election marathon. The result was no surprise. As predicted, the New Democracy Party, led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, won 40.3 percent of the votes and 158 parliamentary seats, giving it the majority to form a government on its
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
Until last week, President Tayyip Erdoğan had not been utilising the US-bashing discourse. The foreign policy items such as demand for the F-16 fighter jets, the YPG issue in Syria, and the $100 billion trade volume prevented him from using the anti-US rhetoric that would have cemented his image as a world leader in the
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and US President Joe Biden met on the margins of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Bali, Indonesia, on November 15. The White House statement read that “President Biden expressed his deep condolences to President Erdoğan and People of Türkiye on the acts of violence in Istanbul and made clear that
The US Senate dropped the amendment to the 2023 National Defense Authorisation Act (NDAA) restricting the sale of update kits for 40 advanced F-16 Viper fighter jets and 80 of the 245 F-16s to Turkey during the debate on the act on October 11. The restrictive amendment stipulated that Turkey guarantee not to use these
Moscow was the first to announce Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with President Tayyip Erdoğan in Astana on October 13. Then followed Ankara; Erdoğan was to co-chair the strategy cooperation talks between Turkey and Kazakhstan with the President of Kazakhstan Kasym Tokayev and to attend the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia on
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