New Iraq directly concerns Turkey
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 … ]
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 … ]
BY: Nedret Ersanel* The rapprochement between Russia and Turkey means (for now) Syria-Iraq in the Middle East and U.S.-Russia-Turkey on a global scale. Turkey does not intend to bring the two powers against each other.But [ More … ]
– US presidential candidate’s remarks show her ‘political inexperience,’ says Turkish president – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday criticized U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s remarks on arming Syrian Kurds as “unfortunate.” “Clinton said, ‘We will [ More … ]
– Turkey is acting in accordance with international human rights conventions in its measures against the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told European parliamentarians Wednesday, according to Anadolu Agency. Speaking at [ More … ]
One day after Saudi Oil Company “Aramco” Informed Egypt that it Would Halt The Supply Of Oil Products (but it reportedly later resumed oil supplies to Cairo according to Anadolu Agency), Saudi Aramco signed today [ More … ]
BY: İLNUR ÇEVIK* Turkey and Russia are now calling the shots in the region as the U.S. struggles with a new policy of trying to stay away from conflicts while the mistakes it makes in [ More … ]
– Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus says Turkey’s presence in Iraq’s Bashiqa is ‘legitimate’ – Turkey will continue its presence in Iraq’s Bashiqa as long as needed, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Wednesday, according [ 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 … ]
Western powers must balance Russian overtures to Turkey by reaching out to Ankara on its key concerns and being cautious with their criticism. A binational meeting was held in Moscow Oct. 2, bringing together Ahmet Tunc [ 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 … ]
– 50-truck convoy departed from Hatay to reach Aleppo – Turkey’s Humanitarian Relief Foundation, or IHH, and the Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services, RAF have sent 250 tons of flour to war-torn Syria, the IHH [ More … ]
– Turkish FM and US state secretary spoke on Saturday – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had a phone conversation on Saturday, which was dominated by the Syria [ More … ]
– Russian energy minister says intergovernmental talks on Turkish Stream largely agreed – The final touches to the agreement to pipe Russian natural gas through Turkey should be completed when President Vladimir Putin meets his [ 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 … ]
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