Turkey

Turkey and Hezbollah are quietly expanding channels of communication as Ankara seeks to manage the group and stop it from playing any destabilising role in Syria, while also trying to deter what it sees as growing Israeli threats in the region, according to analysts. The contacts come as tensions between …

Ilham Ahmed affirmed in an extensive interview with Turkish journalists that the integration of the Syrian Democratic Forces into the Syrian army marks the beginning of a new political chapter for the Kurdish question in Syria. She explained that the priority in the coming period will shift toward securing Kurdish …

Le conflit entre la Turquie et Israël s’intensifie, passant du plan diplomatique et économique au domaine judiciaire. À l’heure actuelle, la Turquie a non seulement bloqué tous les canaux commerciaux et économiques avec Israël, mais elle a également engagé des poursuites contre Netanyahou et 35 autres hauts responsables israéliens devant …

Syrian presidential adviser Mazloum Abdi said relations between Syria and Turkey, as well as between the Kurdish side and Turkey, should move onto a “normal and constructive” footing, noting that channels of communication and dialogue between the two sides remain open. His remarks came in interviews with Turkish media published …

Israel’s strategy in the Middle East is changing: the country is shifting from a targeted response to threats to a systemic containment of all regional players capable of challenging it. After Iran, Turkey has come into focus. For years, Israel’s wars were presented as responses to threats. But as Gaza, …

Analysis: Israel wants a weak Syria; Turkey wants a stable one. Their competing ambitions are creating a dangerous new faultline for Damascus to manage Damascus – Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani met with Israel’s Mossad chief Roman Gofman in Jordan on 23 August following days of escalating tensions that resulted …

Le rapprochement entre la Turquie, le Qatar et le Pakistan ne constitue pas, contrairement à ce qu’une lecture rapide pourrait laisser croire, un «axe des Frères musulmans». La réalité est plus complexe et, pour cette raison même, beaucoup plus intéressante : derrière trois États aux histoires, aux institutions et aux …

Against the backdrop of the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz due to the Iran–US conflict, Turkey and Iraq have agreed to expand the pipeline network, which allows Baghdad to diversify its oil exports and Ankara to strengthen its position as an indispensable energy hub in the region. As the …

Le département d’État américain a rappelé brutalement son ambassadeur en Turquie, Tom Barrack, qui était également envoyé spécial du président pour la Syrie et l’Irak. Ce remaniement soudain a soulevé de nombreuses questions : cette décision est-elle le fruit de pressions du lobby israélien ?Un diplomate inattendu La nomination de …

The Western commentariat filed the Mecca agreement under a comfortable heading. When Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement on August 7 — an armed attack on one to be treated as an attack on all — the reflexive label was “Islamic NATO,” a Sunni bloc, …