Turkey

Turkey’s Islamist President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been militarily threatening a fellow NATO ally, Greece, using increasingly threatening language. He also proudly announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised him to make Turkey an international natural gas hub, therefore selling his gas via Turkey, avoiding Western sanctions. What does …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan create a natural gas hub in Thrace, the European part of Turkey. As expected, this proposal made headlines in the Turkish media, but the content has not yet been detailed. It may have been designed as a hub …

Key takeaways Turkey’s transition to a hyper-centralized presidential system has given rise to a growing malaise in the educational and cultural fields, manifested through purges, witch hunts, and the erosion of university autonomy and resulting in an exodus of the creative classes and cultural institutions. Academic and cultural impoverishment not …

Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan geçtiğimiz hafta Asya’da İşbirliği ve Güven Artırıcı Önlemler Konferansı’nın (CICA) 6’ıncı zirvesi dolayısıyla Kazakistan’ın başkenti Astana’ya gitti. Burada Erdoğan’ın Rusya Devlet Başkanı Vladimir Putin ile yaptığı bir buçuk saatlik görüşme ve Putin’den gelen açıklamalar hem ulusal hem de uluslararası medyada üst sırada yer aldı. Putin, yaptığı …

DEVA Partisi Lideri Ali Babacan Erzurum mitingini Bartın’daki maden faciası nedeniyle iptal etse de kendisine eşlik eden gazetecilere röportaj vermiş. Putin’in Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan’a özel olarak teşekkür etmesi ve Türkiye’yi enerji üssü yapma teklifi de konuşulmuş belli ki ama biraz farklı bir açıdan konuşulmuş. Rusya’nın ABD’deki seçimlere müdahale ettiğine ilişkin iddialar …

Amid Ankara’s overtures to Damascus, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham — the radical group controlling Idlib — has seized Afrin and is seeking a deal to expand its control further into territories held by factions allied with Turkey. A dramatic shift of control has been underway in Afrin and other areas held …

The National Intelligence Organization (MIT) on Friday eliminated a member of the PKK terrorist organization who served as a so-called brigade chief in Syria. Nejdet Dağlarer, code-named “Geli Serhat,” was added to MIT’s target list due to his activities for the PKK in Türkiye and actions against the Turkish Armed …

The New Jersey senator has vowed to block any deal until the Turkish president “halts his campaign of aggression against the region.” Turkey’s hopes of overcoming congressional hurdles and acquiring F-16 fighter jets and upgrade kits rose this week when the Senate removed two amendments to a bill designed to …

Thirteen people, mostly fighters, have been killed in two days of ongoing clashes between rival factions competing for power in northwest Syria, a war monitor said Wednesday. Fighting between two pro-Turkish Syrian rebel groups began in the town of Al-Bab in northern Aleppo province before spreading to other areas and …

Turkey must respect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of all EU member states, particularly Greece and Cyprus, but Ankara remains a key partner, the EU Commission’s latest country report notes. The Commission’s enlargement package was presented by Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi on Wednesday. It assessed the progress made by Western …