October, 2023

• 6 October

  Turkey expands crackdown, airstrikes against PKK as Erdogan lashes out at West

  

  The Turkish Defense Ministry said 16 new targets, including caves, bunkers and warehouses in the northern Iraqi regions of Metina, Hakurk, Gara, Qandil and Assos, were destroyed in the strikes. Turkey carried out on Tuesday fresh airstrikes in five northern Iraqi regions in retaliation for a suicide bombing in Ankara …

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• 6 October

  Turkey’s Fidan declares all PKK, YPG facilities in Syria, Iraq ‘legitimate targets’

  

  High-level and open threats by Turkey have ramped up fears of a fresh escalation in northern Syria between Turkish forces and Syrian Kurdish groups that Ankara deems terrorists. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday that Kurdish militants’ facilities and infrastructure in Syria and Iraq are “legitimate targets” for …

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• 6 October

  Azerbaijan eyes Iran, Armenia borderlands after ‘voluntary’ exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh

  

  The fall of the Nagorno-Karabakh government after 30 years could empower Turkey and weaken Iran. The convoys snaked for miles along mountain passes as the mass exodus of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority Armenian enclave that is formally part of Azerbaijan, continued to unfold. Western leaders wrung their hands but …

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• 6 October

  ‘Terrorist’ facilities in Syria, Iraq are legitimate targets for Turkey: Defense min

  

  All facilities and activities of terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq will be “legitimate targets” for Turkey, Ankara’s defense minister Yasar Guler said. “First of all, we want everyone to know that all facilities and activities of the PKK/KCK, PYD/YPG in Syria and Iraq will be our legitimate target from …

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• 6 October

  Iranian President Raisi Likely Doesn’t Believe His Own Rhetoric About The Zangezur Corridor

  

  Even in the event that Azeri-Turkish economic connectivity is streamlined via a trans-Armenian corridor, then there’s no realistic way that this would function as a Trojan Horse for NATO since it would be protected by the Russian Border Guard Service per the Moscow-mediated November 2020 ceasefire. It’s even more ridiculous …

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• 6 October

  Official Russian & Iranian Statements Prove That Neither Fears The Zangezur Corridor

  

  The question therefore naturally arises of why so many people, especially in the non-mainstream media community, were misled about those two’s geostrategic calculations. The answer can arguably be found by paying attention to the powerful influence wielded by Armenia’s ultra-nationalist diaspora lobby, the most pernicious elements of which are based …

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• 6 October

  Putin’s Man in Ankara: Erdoğan

  

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is trying to get the most from Turkey’s theoretical Western allies while in reality allying with Russian President Vladimir Putin – like sort of a Muslim Fidel Castro. “[A]ny sense of a significant change in Mr. Erdoğan’s balancing act between Russia and the West appeared …

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• 6 October

  Turkey expands crackdown, airstrikes against PKK as Erdogan lashes out at West

  

  The Turkish Defense Ministry said 16 new targets, including caves, bunkers and warehouses in the northern Iraqi regions of Metina, Hakurk, Gara, Qandil and Assos, were destroyed in the strikes. Turkey carried out on Tuesday fresh airstrikes in five northern Iraqi regions in retaliation for a suicide bombing in Ankara …

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• 6 October

  Türkiye identifies second terrorist involved in Ankara attack

  

  Interior ministry announces PKK terrorists Hasan Oguz and Ozkan Sahin carried out the attack in the Turkish capital. Türkiye has revealed the identity of the second terrorist behind Sunday’s treacherous attack at the entrance of the Turkish Ministry of Interior Affairs. Following investigations and DNA examination, the ministry identified the …

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• 6 October

  Will Xi’s Military Modernization Pay Off?

  

  China’s Armed Forces Are More Capable—but Beijing Feels Less Secure For months, all eyes have been on the high-level personnel turmoil in the Chinese military. Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu has not been seen in public for weeks, raising questions about whether he still holds his position. Li Yuchao, the …

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