So far, Erdoğan’s fanaticism has come without any cost to him internationally, or any damage to his domestic political survivability. He has every ideological and pragmatic reason to keep up his love affair with Hamas.
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Turkey is in the midst of a major naval construction program, seeking to restore regional maritime influence lost since the collapse of the Ottoman empire, and the project is already generating regional tensions.
Read More »Turkey prepares offensive in Syria, sends thousands of troops and equipment
Turkey is preparing a large-scale offensive in Syria in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo.
Read More »Idlib | Turkish jets fly over Syria border strip with Iskenderun, while HTS fires rockets on regime positions in Kafr Nubl
Syrian Observatory activists have monitored Turkish jets “F16” flying over the border strip between Idlib and Iskenderun region. Meanwhile, Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham fired several rockets on regime positions in Kafr Nubl city in southern Idlib.
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Egypt is making diplomatic moves to counter Turkey’s growing involvement in the Eastern Mediterranean region amid escalating tension. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received a phone call on Sept. 17 from the president of the European Council, Charles Michel. The two officials discussed a number of issues of common interest, including …
Read More »Erdogan to Macron: ‘You cannot lecture us on humanity’
Recalling France’s massacres in Algeria and Rwanda, the Turkish president said the French president “cannot lecture us on humanity”, Anadolu Agency reported.
Read More »Military build-up | Turkish forces withdraw their heavy weapons from frontlines to Tal Abyad, as regime reinforcement arrive in northern Raqqa
Reliable sources have informed SOHR that Turkish forces and their proxy factions withdrew part of their heavy weapons from the frontlines with SDF in rural Tel Abyad and Ain Issa, north of Raqqa.
Read More »Turkey Refuses Russian Proposal To Withdraw From Observation Posts in Syria: Report
Turkish and Russian officials have met to discuss the Turkish presence in the province of Idleb and options to scale back their observation posts writes Al-Masdar.
Read More »Turkey prepares offensive in Syria, sends thousands of troops and equipment
Turkey is preparing a large-scale offensive in Syria in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo, learned BulgarianMilitary.com citing several sources, including Aviapor and Krasnaya Vesna.
Read More »Turkey's Oruc Reis research vessel returns to near southern port: Ship tracker shows
Turkish seismic research vessel Oruc Reis, which has been at the heart of a simmering standoff between Greece and Turkey over gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean, has returned to a port in southern Turkey, a ship tracker shows.
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