Tag: Turkey

European Move Toward Lebanon as Beirut Awaits Israeli Election Results

Lebanon is awaiting the results of the Israeli elections and their potential implications. Official Lebanese sources indicate that no major political or military developments are expected this month. Negotiations are likely to remain frozen, but communication between the Lebanese presidency and certain established channels within the US administration continues, helping prevent further deterioration in the security situation. Meanwhile, a new development concerning southern Lebanon has...

Turkish–Israeli Relations: Two Societies Apart

In the 1990s, Turkey and Israel described their partnership as a strategic alliance. Their militaries trained together, their intelligence services shared information, their businessmen discovered each other's markets, and hundreds of thousands of Israeli tourists made Antalya and Istanbul their favorite destinations. Three decades later, the same two states regard each other with suspicion bordering on hostility, and in some Turkish and Israeli policy...
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3rd Week of April: All Eyes on Devlet Bahçeli

The Weekly Turkey Report: 3rd Week of April Turkey is currently focused on deciphering the social media messages of Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the Nationalist...

Recent Relations between Turkey and Armenia

Relations between Turkey and Armenia have been developing positively since the 2020 Karabakh War. As it will be remembered, after the war, the two...

Is War Possible between Turkey & Israel?

Syria’s decade-long-plus civil war has weakened and divided it to the extent that Turkey from the north and Israel from the south have been...

The Collapse of Türkiye’s Central Asia Policy

  A critical development revealing the current state of Türkiye’s relations with the Turkic Republics of Central Asia must not go unnoticed. According to a BBC...

The Türkiye-Israel Confrontation in the Shadow of Antisemitism

On April 8, 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared alongside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office and made a striking public appeal:...

1st Week of April:The Regime Is Cornered

The Weekly Turkey Report: 1st Week of April Following the events after March 19, one could say that Turkey experienced one of its relatively calmest...

4th Week of March: Millions on the Streets

The Weekly Turkey Report: 4th Week of March. The arrest of Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor and Republican People's Party’s (CHP) official presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu has...

The Implications of the New PKK Peace Process

  The first thing I will say is, “What peace process”? Maybe I am wrong. Indeed, I hope I am, but this so-called PKK peace...

The Weekly Turkey Report: 3rd Week of February

3rd Week of February: The Judicial Whip In February, Turkey witnessed that pressure on opposition groups was steadily increasing and that efforts to make society...

The Collapse of Turkey’s Balance Policy and the Return to “Precious Loneliness”

The year 2024 may be recorded in history as the year when the balance policy, which has formed the backbone of Turkish foreign policy...