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
I must say I was jealous of my journalist colleague Tim Sebastian when I watched Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan’s spokesman İbrahim Kalın answer his questions for Deutsche Welle. It wasn’t about Sebastian’s interview style; I even thought it was rather brave of a figure like Kalın to accept speaking to Sebastian, whose aggressive style is
On November 27, the Istanbul Police announced the arrest of Iranian Masoud Molavi Vardanjani’s murder suspect “Abdülvahap K.” and 4 others helping him following an operation in Arnavutköy district. It was a joint operation by the Police and the National Security Organization (MIT). A day earlier, on November 26, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
South Korea agreed to extend the intelligence-sharing agreement (GSOMIA) with Japan on November 22 only six hours left to its expiration. That was possible thanks to the concessions given by Tokyo, since Seoul had announced in August that it tended not to extend it unless the Japanese government meets more demands to close the painful
Up until the last few days, the prospect of an early election was nothing but a question that foreign investors asked to gauge the situation in Turkey. After considering that it would be a risk big risk for Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan to launch a snap election in the economy’s current state, they were ruling
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
Discussions on what the Kurdish population in Turkey is have resumed in international media in the wake of the Syria debate. The Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) has not yet published any official numbers on that. But the November 2019 “Gender in Turkey” report by KONDA research company based on the data from its 2018 Lifestyles
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
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