President Tayyip Erdoğan welcomed Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency. During Trump’s previous tenure, he could communicate with him directly and even received White House invitations. Despite Trump’s hostility toward Türkiye during his first term, Erdoğan hopes to turn a new page in US relations during Trump’s second term. However, this new chapter might
As the Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar warned Greece on Jan. 23 to stop arming the 16 Aegean islands close to Turkey in violation of international agreements, Ankara is now in preparation for new steps to counter moves by Greece and its partners in the eastern Mediterranean energy row. According to a high rank Turkish
“We are watching the situation closely and carefully”, told Fatih Yıldız, Turkey’s Ambassador to Baghdad, to Yetkin Report on the phone on January 1; “It is worrying how easy the militants could get into the Green Zone and raid the U.S. Embassy. I believe no harm will come from Iraqi people to Turkey but the
The Republican People’s Party (CHP) member Ekrem İmamoğlu’s second, and this time landslide victory in the re-elections for the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has been voted as the most remarkable event of the year 2019 in Turkey by YetkinReport readers. President Tayyip Erdoğan’s dismissal of the Central Bank Governor for failing to lower interest rates came
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan’s “Kanal Istanbul” project to build an artificial artery connecting the Black Sea to the Marmara Sea, parallel to the Bosporus, would not change the Montreux Convention establishing the legal status of the Black Sea, Aleksei Erkhov, the Russian Ambassador to Ankara, said on December 26. Answering questions of YetkinReport, Erkhov said
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said on December 15, live on TV that Turkey could close the İncirlik and Kürecik military bases to the use of the U.S. if need be, to counter the steps the U.S. might take against Turkey. The Incirlik air base, located near the southern province of Adana, near Syria border has
Ankara Metropolitan Mayor Mansur Yavaş’s latest move, which resonated with the Turkish public, was to denounce the money spent on the plastic dinosaur sculptures in Ankara’s parks and playgrounds before his term, under the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). At the Ankara City Council Meeting, Yavaş stated that Melih Gökçek, Ankara’s former and longest-running
Turkey‘s former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has announced the establishment of his Future Party (FP) in Ankara on December 13. He highlighted the need of a liberal constitution and a parliamentary democracy instead of the current concentration of powers in President Tayyip Erdogan’s hands and the need for the separation of powers as well as
Left to right, former PM Davutoğlu, former President Gül and President and ruling AKP leader Erdoğan were photoed together three years ago in 2016. (Photo: Presidential website) President Tayyip Erdoğan’s December 7 speech in Istanbul has shook up the Turkish political agenda, where he went as far as accusing his ex-comrades Ahmet Davutoğlu and Ali
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
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