Mosul justifications
BY: Özlem Albayrak* We have been listening to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s salvos against Turkey for days now. The Abadi government that could not even prevent the Shiites and Sunnis in his capital city [ More … ]
BY: Özlem Albayrak* We have been listening to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s salvos against Turkey for days now. The Abadi government that could not even prevent the Shiites and Sunnis in his capital city [ More … ]
– Ibrahim Kalin says Turkey is not eyeing Iraq’s territory – Turkey has no secret agenda in Iraq, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Thursday. Speaking to the media at the presidential complex in Ankara, Kalin [ More … ]
BY: Merve Şebnem Oruç* There are critical signatures made between Turkey and Russia, which is beyond rapprochement and can be described as a “game changer.” Eyes are on Iraq, the () Mosul operation is on [ More … ]
BY: BURHANETTIN DURAN* Omitting Turkey from Iraqi agenda or placing the country into a secondary position due to the pressure from Iran will not create a new and peaceful Iraq Iraqi Prime Minister Haider [ More … ]
– Attack in Erbil took place on Oct. 2, says government spokesman – France confirmed on Wednesday two of its soldiers had been injured in a drone attack carried out by Daesh in Iraq, [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s speech yesterday contained statements signaling a deep change. Erdoğan, who particularly targets the reactions from Iraq, was actually indicating a radical change in Turkey’s security policies, while outlining [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* We were exposed to a heavy terrorist attack yesterday. We lost 18 lives to martyrdom, 10 of them soldiers. There is no doubt that this PKK attack was more than a terrorist [ More … ]
– Turkish forces in northern Iraq are largely based in Bashiqa, a training camp northeast of Mosul – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had a phone conversation on Sunday, [ More … ]
BY: İHSAN AKTAŞ* At the outset of the United States’ occupation of Iraq, a significant wave of opposition against the Iraqi war emerged in the world public opinion, especially in the United Kingdom. As a result, [ More … ]
BY: Merve Şebnem Oruç I believe the U.S.-Saudi Arabia relationship is one of the most important of bilateral relations that are as interesting as they are dirty and deep. This is because the reason the [ More … ]
– State television shows hundreds of military vehicles and soldiers advancing towards Iraq’s western border with Syria – An Iraqi army division has been deployed to the Al-Ratba district near the Syrian border in the [ More … ]
BY: ÇETİNER ÇETİN* Following his talks in Bagdad and Erbil two weeks ago, it became apparent that U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken imposed the second nightmare scenario for the Iraqis after the 2003 [ More … ]
BY: Abdallah El-Sinawi* Saudi Arabia is undergoing existential tests which are unprecedented – at the level of their danger – since the founding of the Kingdom in the early thirties of last century. This issue [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* We experienced the invasion of Afghanistan. The gate of Central Asia fell in to the hands of the Western forces. We experienced the invasion of Iraq. The heart of Mesopotamia was taken [ More … ]
– Iraqi parliamentarians earlier this week described Turkish troops deployed in Iraq’s Nineveh province as ‘occupiers’ – Kurdish and Turkmen members of northern Iraq’s Kurdish parliament have described the Iraqi parliament’s characterization of Turkish troops [ More … ]
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