By Said Ali Batrouni * With a significant shift in Türkiye’s strategy toward the Assad regime in Syria, where he has been insisting on regime change, Erdogan stated that Türkiye’s goal in Syria is to find a political solution to the country’s decade-long civil war, rather than defeating Assad. Ankara’s recent statement that it is willing to normalize relations with ...
By Hasan Ünal The 5 August meeting in Sochi between Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin has given rise to speculation in the west over Turkish-Russian rapprochement – and its possible negative impact on western efforts to curtail the imminent multipolar order. Western NATO states have reason to be concerned about Ankara’s recent moves, given the ...
Last week, the public agenda in Türkiye discussed the announcements made after the meeting between the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Sochi; the alleged possibility of a diplomatic meeting between Erdogan and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad by the Turkish-government affiliated Türkiye Newspaper; and the recent tensions with Greece. Erdogan spoke after the Sochi ...
Aidan Aslin is a British national who fought as a mercenary at the side of the YPG/PKK in the north of Syria in 2015 and 2016. Upon his return to the United Kingdom, he was detained, but released afterwards and went back to Syria. He expressed himself in support for a so-called Kurdish autonomous region in Syria and called Western ...
By Fikret Akfırat* For Türkiye, with the Eastern Mediterranean issue and the elimination of the PKK presence in Syria, relations with the USA, Russia, Iran, and China are locked in Idlib. The situation in Idlib is the most significant issue in Syria that the Astana partners are unable to settle. As a result, the Astana process is slowed down. More ...
United World International expert Mehmet Perinçek was Dmitry Leskov’s guest on the live broadcast of the Russian state channel OTR on 7 June 2022. In the program, Turkey’s geopolitics, from the possible Syrian operation of the Turkish Army to Turkey-NATO relations, were discussed. We have prepared the transcript of the program in English for Uwidata readers. Dmitry Lyskov: According to ...
Sweden and Finland have applied for NATO membership, NATO authorities have stated the accession process, which usually takes up to 2 years, but a Turkish veto, announced repeatedly by President Erdoğan, has halted the process. Diplomatic traffic between the two countries and Turkey as well as between Brussels and Ankara has taken up pace – with a look at the ...
While the Ukraine crisis continues, Sweden and Finland announced that they will speed up the decision to join NATO. Swedish Social Democratic Party announced that the official decision on whether to join NATO or not will be made on May 15 and according to reporting in Euronews, Finland will hold a meeting on the subject on May 14. We interviewed ...
By Prof. Bessam Abu Abdullah, Damascus, Syria The following is an article that Prof. Abdullah has published in the Syrian daily newspaper El Watan. The article explores the ground, need and conditions for a rapproachment between the Syrian Arab Republic and the Republic of Turkey. ‘Our path crosses Ankara, although it is a difficult path’ Previously I have written many ...
By Fikret Akfirat On the night of April 17, Turkey launched the Claw-Lock operation against the US-backed PKK forces in northern Iraq. With this step, a new phase has been started in the “Claw” series of operations. The Turkish Armed Forces are famous for giving meaningful names to their military operations. Operations started with Claw-1 targeting the removal of PKK camps in the ...
Ten years into Syria’s civil war, attempts by the U.S. and Europe and the Middle East to oust Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria have proven futile and Arab countries are gradually restoring relations with Damascus. In the US, neoconservatives like Charles Lister or Nicole Robinson from the Heritage Foundation are warning Joe Biden against “normalizing” relations with Assad. Warning means ...
Last week, the public agenda in Turkey has been busy with three main topics. First topic was the official visit by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, and their attendance to the opening of the new airport in Karabakh, on the anniversary of the Karabagh victory. Second was the discussion around the possibility of ...