Last week, the Turkish public agenda had been busy with three main topics. The first topic had been the critics against the United States and NATO over the lack of support towards the counter terrorist efforts of the Turkish government. The second topic was the newly announced Turkish Space Program, and its possible future missions of human spaceflight, including even ...

US CENTCOM Commander General Kenneth McKenzie has held a keynote speech on an event of the Middle East Institute on February 8. McKenzie outlined the US military’s view on the Middle East. The full text of the speech can be read here. New competitors in the Middle East: Russia and China The US General implicitly acknowledges a loss of the ...

The so-called Astana Format, comprised of the Russian Federation, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Turkey, has concluded its 15th round of talks on February the 17th in the Russian city of Sochi. Following the meeting, the three countries made a joint statement, which UnitedWorld below presents as full text. The representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian ...

Turkey and Israel are two influential countries in West Asia. Differences in the Palestine and Kurdish Questions, relations to Israel and conflicting positions in the Eastern Mediterranean have caused several major high-level crises between the two countries and led to restraint as well as downgrading in diplomatic relations. Notwithstanding this past, a revitalization and normalization of Turkish-Israeli relations is widely ...

Last week, the Turkish public agenda has been busy with three main topics. The first was the second phase of the counter-terror Operation Claw-Eagle by the Turkish Armed Forces and the execution of 13 civilians by the PKK terrorist organization. The second topic was the ongoing negotiations and arguments about a resolution, whether the island of Cyprus should be governed ...

The US Think Tank, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) has published a report titled “From Trump to Biden: The way forward for U.S. National Security” in January 2021. The report presents policy proposals to the Biden Administration concerning a broad range of countries. In the Middle East, proposals concerning policy towards Turkey and Syria aim to progress the ...

Turkey and Israel are two influential countries in West Asia. Differences in the Palestine and Kurdish Questions, relations to Israel and conflicting positions in the Eastern Mediterranean have caused several major high-level crises between the two countries and led to restraint as well as downgrading in diplomatic relations. Notwithstanding this past, a revitalization and normalization of Turkish-Israeli relations is widely ...

Retired Brigadier General Fahri Erenel drew attention to the fact that a potential agreementnel drew attention to the fact that a potential agreement to be reached between Syria and Turkey between Syria and Turkey has the potential to strike a huge blow to terrorism. The PKK / YPG has been pushed back into Ayn Issa following Turkish operations in the ...

Syria and Russia had harsh reactions against recent developments in the ongoing cooperation between the US and the PKK/PYD, issuing a joint statement. The statement cited “the agreement signed by the American company Delta Crescent Energy, about the extraction of the Syrian oil with terrorists” as an example. The statement, which was announced by the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters on September ...

Local sources in Syria have been reporting that Washington has again been active over the past month about the “US corridor”. The United States has sped up its efforts on the ground towards the creation of a puppet state in Northeastern Syria, on the military, administrative and economic front. THE SECURITY OF PKK/PYD WILL BE MAINTAINED Sources in Syria reported ...