After threatening to expel 10 foreign envoys, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Monday appeared to de-escalate a diplomatic row sparked by the ongoing imprisonment of Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala. A tense diplomatic crisis in which 10 ambassadors to Turkey faced possible expulsion from the country appears to have been defused …

How did the Chinese come to possess such prowess? From us. The Chinese… know that a democracy whose economy is weakened by COVID of a curious origin, a multi-trillion dollar budget that would plunge us into historic debt; a nation staggering under the burden of a possibly enfeebled national leadership, …

Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok was detained on Monday and moved to an undisclosed location by the country’s military, in an apparent coup. Hamdok was arrested after refusing to support the coup by issuing a statement in favor of it, Reuters reported, citing the country’s information ministry. Five other senior …

Former Saudi Arabian intelligence officer Saad al-Jabri said in an interview with the CBS News program 60 Minutes that Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), currently the Saudi crown prince, spoke in 2014 about the idea of killing the sitting monarch at the time, King Abdullah, to pave the way for Abdullah’s …

The second Nagorno-Karabakh war (September-November 2020) in the southern Caucasus ended with Azerbaijan’s victory over Armenia, which had held the Nagorno-Karabakh area since the first war between the two countries (1991-94). Azerbaijan’s victory in the war has important geopolitical and economic ramifications for the southern Caucasus region and for the …

The Polish government is hardly an appealing champion for the cause, but its critique of the extension of EU law is a sound one In a parallel universe, the UK would never have left the EU and would instead have adopted the strategy now being tried by Poland. A couple …

La Pologne ne veut pas quitter l’UE, elle veut en changer les règles, c’est la grande différence avec le Brexit. Mais le rapport de force n’est pas, cette fois, favorable à Varsovie. Il y a un énorme paradoxe dans la crise avec la Pologne qui s’est invitée hier à la …

Özellikle son birkaç haftadır çok garip, çok tuhaf gelişmeler yaşanıyor. İçeriden-dışarıdan dört koldan bir saldırıplanı uygulanıyor. Korkunç yıpratıcı, intikamcı bir organize saldırının ivmesi sistematik biçimde tırmandırılıyor. Siyasi teamüllerin, arayışların, rekabetin, seçim hazırlıklarının, siyasi kültürün çok dışında, geniş bir çerçevede yürütülen “organize” bir çalışma bu.Siyasi terör süreci başlatıldı. Türkiye’nin temeline ateş …

“Kendi özel iradelerini değil, temsil ettikleri ülkelerin iradesini yansıtıyor. O ülke hükümetleri onaylıyor, hatta belki de, öneriyor. Dolayısıyla, o büyükelçileri istenmeyen adam ilan etmek, aynı zamanda o ülkelerle bağı koparmak anlamını taşıyor”. Erdoğan, siyasal hayatının en büyük kumarını oynuyor. Aynı kentte, aynı gün, üç ayrı yerde üç konuşma. Önce Millet …

A former senior Saudi security official who helped oversee joint counter-terrorism efforts with the United States claimed in an interview with “60 Minutes” that the kingdom’s crown prince once spoke of killing a sitting Saudi monarch before his own father was crowned king. Saad al-Jabri did not provide evidence to …