Tag: Turkey

A NATO Win for Erdogan  

NATO’s Ankara Summit is over and, as expected, the winner is Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish host has a lot to be happy about.  First, the summit put on display his special relationship to Donald Trump.  Trump made it clear that he showed up at the Bestepe Palace largely thanks to his ties to Erdogan.  In the run-up to the summit but also in Ankara,...

NATO’s Out-of-Area Strategy

As is known, NATO is a military alliance established after the Second World War to protect the military security of the West against communism and Soviet expansionism. Beyond being merely a military alliance, NATO is a war machine that has also assumed the mission of maintaining the West’s political, diplomatic, strategic, and even cultural superiority. In the 1990s, when the Soviet system collapsed and...
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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...