Main political events in Türkiye in the last week. Türkiye’s political scene has been lively last week once again.President Erdoğan addressed the recent statement of Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli, a coalition partner, who suggested inviting PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan to Parliament to formally announce the dissolution of the terrorist organization PKK. Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek made statements ...
Ankara must take a decision, the expert says. Türkiye is at a crossroads, says Bercan Tutar, an expert on international politics and columnist at Turkish daily newspaper Sabah. He states that the Russian Special military Operation in Ukraine in many ways is like Türkiye’s long-enduring fight against the terror organization PKK. Here are the reasons he states in the interview ...
Recent developments in Iraq and Syria. By Adem Kılıç * Türkiye’s military presence and operations in Iraq are also having an impact in Iraq after Syria, as a manifestation of Türkiye’s “eradicating terrorism at its source” approach since 2017. Launched in 2019, the Claw Operations aimed to end the presence of the terrorist organization PKK in northern Syria and Iraq ...
A look at the confrontation between Türkiye and NATO from Iraq to Syria, from the Black Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean. We conducted an interview with Turkish journalist Ceyhun Bozkurt on Türkiye-US relations, Türkiye’s position in NATO and Türkiye’s alternatives to the alliance.In order to evaluate these properly, we looked at the situation in a wide geography from Iraq to ...
Parts of the agreement may provide an example to follow in Turkish-Syrian negotiations. By Yunus Soner Last week, Türkiye and Iraq signed an agreement on military and security. We asked Ceyhun Bozkurt, Turkish international politics expert, about the content and the effects of the agreement. To begin with, what is the content of the agreement? On August 15, Türkiye and ...
On the recent agreement between Türkiye and Iraq, the Ukrainian Kursk Offensive and Israel’s provocations against Iran. West Asia is living tectonic shifts at all of its corners, from the Palestine conflict over the Iranian-Israeli tensions, from Turkish-Iraqi agreements to rapprochement between Ankara and Damascus and its repercussions in the Ukraine conflict. We asked Ismail Hakkı Pekin, retired lieutenant-general of ...
By Mehmet Perinçek Recently, the long-awaited and necessary developments in Türkiye-Syria relations have begun to surface. The announcements made in Ankara and Damascus are promising. However, for these positive signals to materialize and lead to concrete results, there are some critical points that need to be addressed. The aim: Strategic cooperation Firstly, the aim in Türkiye-Syria relations should not merely ...
By Mohamed Sabreen, Cairo / Egypt There is no doubt that Turkish-Syrian reconciliation is “inevitably coming.” Rather, we are witnessing a frantic race by the Turkish opposition to snatch the reconciliation card from the government’s hands and outperform Erdogan in the matter, head start to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It is surprising that Erdogan is rushing reconciliation, and ...
Türkiye’yi siyasi platformda zora sokmak, itibarını zedelemek için tıpkı Amerika’daki radikal Ermeniler gibi Güney Afrika’da da radikal bölücü gruplar, en az 30 yıldır Türk devleti aleyhine propaganda faaliyetleri yürütmektedir. Şüphesiz bu faaliyetlerin esas gayesi Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’ni bölmek ve sözde bir Kürt devleti kurmaktır. İsrail ve Amerika başta olmak üzere Türkiye’yi düşman gören bütün devletlerin bu tür menfi oluşumlara destek verdiği ...
Daha önce bazı Avrupa ülkelerinin, 15 Temmuz darbe girişiminin ardından Türkiye’den kaçan FETÖ’cülere nasıl kol kanat açtıklarını bu köşeden yazmıştım. AK Parti tarafından hazırlanan bir raporda, bu defa bazı Avrupa ülkelerinin terör örgütü PKK’ya resmen “yardım ve yataklık” yaptıkları dile getirildi. Türkiye’ye karşı terörle mücadele de her zaman olduğu gibi ikiyüzlü davranan Avrupa ülkelerinin, binlerle masum insanın ölümünden sorumlu terör ...