Last week, the public agenda in Turkey has been busy with two very important topics. First was the proposal that came from Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalin, over the S-400 crisis and the statements over the unilateral suspension of Turkey from the Joint Strike Fighter program. Second was the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu’s visit to Saudi Arabia, the ...
The US State Department has imposed sanctions on the Turkish Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB) due to the SSB’s deals with the Russian defense sector. The notice, published in the US Federal Register, states that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken concluded that SSB had “made a significant transaction” with the Russian Federation several years ago. In this regard, Blinken determined ...
After the first S-400s that Turkey purchased from Russia, some said that installing them had been abandoned, and that the systems themselves were essentially junk. While the US administration, which warned Ankara against purchasing the S-400s, continues to threats of sanctions, on the other hand, Aleksandr Mikheev, CEO of Rosoboronexport (the state intermediary agency for Russia’s exports/imports of defense-related and ...
Turkey spent last week talking about the natural gas reserves found in the Black Sea This Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the Fatih Drilling Vessel, which has been on natural gas exploration activities in the Black Sea, had discovered 320 billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves at the Sakarya Gas Field. “GOOD NEWS” Speaking at an opening ...
Recently, the S-400 Air Defense Systems Turkey ordered from Russia have become a hot topic of discussion once again. Allegations of postponement or even a total cancellation of the activation of these S-400s have been put up on the agenda, potentially in response to the serious crisis the purchase caused between the United States and Turkey. Some publications have claimed ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (November 13) will arrive in Washington to hold talks with US President Donald Trump. Erdogan is heading to Washington, where Turkey-US relations have been at a critical juncture in recent years, and the two NATO allies have sometimes adopted conflicting policies toward regional crises that have not pleased Ankara. Some American experts believe that the ...
Russia as a country has been able to come to the forefront of the international arena in recent times, especially since Vladimir Putin came to power, and then in 2000 as the country’s president. But there is one point to consider both in the political and international spheres about Russia, which is that it can be safely said that, after ...
Journalist Sedat Ergin of the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet recently wrote that the delivery of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems coincided with the anniversary of the coup d’état on July 15, 2016, and that this was anything but a coincidence. He stressed that the S-400s arriving from Russia had even landed on the same runway where American F-16 fighters took off ...
Erbil attack In Erbil, Iraq, two terrorists carried out an armed attack killing several diplomats including an employee of the Turkish consulate general. Police arrested 27-year-old Mazlum Dağ in connection with the incident. The search for others involved in organizing the attack is ongoing, police said. Two Iraqi citizens were also killed in the July 27 incident, when gunmen opened ...
S-400 On July 14, the seventh aircraft carrying Russian S-400 air defense system components arrived in Turkey at the Myrted airbase. Turkey has now become the first NATO country to purchase the S-400. The purchase caused months of disagreements with the United States, who argued that the F-35 fighter jets Turkey had purchased were incompatible with the non-NATO defense systems. The ...