Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked on Tuesday how the United Nations (UN) can defend the rights of others when it is unable to protect the rights of its own staff amid Israeli attacks on peacekeepers in Lebanon. “We all watched in shame how helpless the UN Security Council and …

Recent discussions between Turkey and the United States indicate that the Biden administration is actively pursuing Ankara’s reinstatement in the F-35 program. It is difficult to justify why Washington would want to arm Turkey with these highly advanced fighter jets, when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan takes fervent measures to …

President of the Republic of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in an interview with the American “NBC News,” stated that he does not consider Hamas a terrorist organization but rather a resistance group defending its country, Anadolu Agency reported. Erdogan, who was in New York for the 79th United Nations General …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called on the United Nations General Assembly to recommend the use of forces, in accordance with the resolution passed in 1950, if the UN Security Council does not stop Israel’s attacks in Gaza and Lebanon, Anadolu Agency reported. The UN General Assembly should …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks a role for Turkey in Gaza’s post-war reconstruction if not governance, and the Biden administration appears ready to accede to this request. Others also see Turkish involvement after the conflict as a fait accompli. “It’s tough to imagine any long-term solution to the Gaza …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that recent Israeli attacks on Lebanon will lead to the expansion of conflict in the region, emphasizing that these events are a clear manifestation of efforts to widen the war into a broader area. He made these statements during a speech at an event …

Russia’s top diplomat Lavrov teases a possible high-level four-way meeting to tackle Turkish-Syrian normalization, which he says requires many specific parameters to achieve, such as troops’ presence and the YPG problem Russia, Türkiye, Syria and Iran plan to hold a meeting soon to discuss the normalization efforts between Ankara and …

Dans le monde de la grande politique, la Turquie a l’habitude des manœuvres diplomatiques et des changements opportunistes. Aujourd’hui, le pays tente de prendre sa place dans un monde polycentrique. L’idée d’une adhésion aux BRICS est en train de devenir un marqueur de la diplomatie turque. La création des BRICS …

With its foreign policy maneuvering space increasingly constrained, Turkey’s hedging between its NATO allies and Russia will be harder to maintain. A decade into adopting a more assertive foreign policy that enabled Turkey to successfully project power and shape the Syrian, Libyan, and Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts, Ankara’s maneuvering space appears to …

Latest Developments Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on September 7 called for the formation of an Islamic alliance to halt what he called “the growing threat of expansionism” from the Jewish state. Falsely claiming that Israeli officials “openly state” their desire to occupy the entire region, Erdogan maintained that an …