On his way to London for NATO’s 70th-anniversary summit, when asked about whether “Turkey would veto the defense plan for the Baltic region if other NATO member-states do not designate the YPG as a terrorist organization”, Erdoğan had a clear response. He said that “If our friends in NATO don’t recognize as threats those that
NATO, The Western Defense Alliance, will celebrate its 70th anniversary during the London Summit of December 3-4; it will be a true endurance test for Turkey’s relations with the West. At the heart of the tension, there is a verbal duel between Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan and French President Emmanuel Macron. Erdoğan accuses Macron of
Speaking at the Parliament Planning and Budget Commission on the evening of November 18, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said that the operation that resulted in the death of ISIS leader Baghdadi had been made possible by intelligence gathered from a high-ranking ISIS member who was caught in Turkey. Earlier that day, Iraq’s military intelligence chief
One of the key requests that Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan is likely to make to U.S. President Donald Trump is to drop his support for the SDF military and their backbone, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK); the latter was designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. as well. But according to well-informed official sources on
