Turkey

The Kashmir problem has once again sparked a heated worldwide discussion. This time, it occurred in Geneva during the 52nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The matter was raised by Turkey and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which made India apprehensive and defensive about their …

The date of the presidential elections has been announced in Turkey. This will probably be the most difficult test for Erdogan. And by internal circumstances – the strengthening of the pro-Western secular-Kemalist opposition (primarily in the person of the Republican People’s Party), a split in the AKP itself, a sharp …

Turkish and Greek officials will hold a meeting on Wednesday as the two countries seek to revive stalled discussions for dialogue, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry said deputy foreign ministers of Türkiye and Greece, Ambassador Burak Akçapar and Konstantinos Fragkogiannis, respectively, will meet “in the context of …

Sudani on his first visit to Ankara, stressed the importance of Iraq’s sovereignty in the two countries’ fight against terrorism. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iraqi Premier Mohammed Shia al-Sudani on Tuesday lauded the cooperation between the two countries but reported only limited progress on the contentious bilateral rifts. …

At a time when conflicts are increasingly interconnected, and provide tactical levers to assert pressure elsewhere, the competition between Russia-Iran and Turkiye in Syria and the South Caucasus is destined to overlap. Despite their robust diplomatic relations, Turkiye has been in direct competition with Russia and Iran in two major …

Finnish politicians and analysts anticipate concrete and positive results from President Sauli Niinistö’s two-day visit to Ankara on Friday, which Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will also attend. Niinistö’s two-day visit could be a breakthrough for Finland, which has seen its membership bid thwarted by Turkey and Hungary for over …

The two countries’ deputy foreign ministers plus those of Russia and Iran had been due to meet to discuss further rapprochement efforts. A planned meeting of senior Turkish, Russian, Syrian and Iranian diplomats was reportedly postponed Thursday following a series of talks aimed at resetting in ties between Ankara and …

Syrian President Bashar al Assad said on Thursday he would only meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan when Turkey was ready to completely withdraw its military from northern Syria and restore the situation that existed before the Syrian war. Turkey has been the biggest military and political ally of the Syrian …

Finland and Sweden grew closer to Western institutions in the post-Cold War era, and EU accession in 1995 meant that Stockholm and Helsinki finally abandoned their neutrality policies. Both countries remained militarily non-aligned but cooperation with NATO increased through the Partnership for Peace program and increasing participation in NATO missions …

Rights watchdog’s 50th anniversary report painted a bleak picture of the state of freedom in several countries in the region, although Kosovo bucked the trend. The 2023 annual “Freedom in the World” report by rights organisation Freedom House says several countries in Southeast and Central Europe, except for Kosovo, saw …