The recent NATO summit celebrated in Türkiye’s capital city of Ankara has brought a number of changes for the alliance, regarding militarization, defense spending, more aggressive posture both towards Russia and West Asia. These are continuations and radicalizations of already taken steps within the alliance. In the framework of the summit and beyond, the host country, Türkiye, has agreed to ...
London has started to provide the SDF military and financial aid as well as sharing intelligence. Ankara has been facing a serious problem for decades – PKK separatism, which manifests itself both within Türkiye and beyond its borders. In particular, in northern Syria, where the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were formed. Ankara sees it as a direct continuation of the ...