Turkey was allied with the Germans in World War I. We entered the war as something fait accompli due to two German ships with Turkish flags (Yavuz and Midilli) in the Black Sea. We fought together on many fronts. We were defeated. We were occupied. They could not stand the fact that later, under the same conditions, the Turks did ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to the Syrian capital for the first time since 2012 and the regional messages he conveyed continue to be discussed. Yury Borisov, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, was also present in the delegation, marking the first official visit by Lavrov to Damascus after 8 years. The Russian delegation’s visit on September 7 took place ...
Even though Turkey has responded to Greece’s wayward behavior with its armada, it should take advantage of the situation by leveling a diplomatic and juridical attack. To achieve this end, the following steps must be taken as quickly as possible: – Take initiatives with the United Nations Security Council, the European Union and NATO on the violation of the demilitarized ...
Turkish public is discussing about the possibility of wars at all fronts. In the West, the crises with Greece and European Union on the sea borders in the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas, are deepening every day. On the Eastern front, the support that has been given to PKK/YPG/PYD terrorist organizations, by the Western countries such as the US and France ...
“What are we to do in Anatolia … Our interests may be in the Balkans, in Macedonia, and the Islands, but what is Anatolia to us? Why did they send us there? After all these years, one can now analyze the past better and reach well-grounded conclusions on it. Now, I do not hesitate to admit it that we had ...
Unexpected mediator Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu paid an official visit to the Venezuelan capital Caracas in August. He met with President Nicolas Maduro and signed new cooperation agreements. The visit was mainly of an economic nature. However, on September 2, Mevlüt Çavusoğlu confirmed that Turkey had mediated negotiations between the Venezuelan authorities and the opposition. Representatives of the Venezuelan ...
Abdurrahman Salahuddin, the Former Egyptian Ambassador to Ankara, has given an exclusive interview for the Turkish TV channel KRT. During the interview, he spoke about the current disputes between the two countries, while giving his assessments about a diplomatic rapprochement. Here are some highlights of that interview: “I presented my letter of credence with my wife to the Former President ...
Greece is trying to expand its territorial waters to a 12 nautical mile radius based on the United Nations Convention on The Law of the Sea. However, neither the Convention nor the International Court of Justice nor the Arbitral Tribunal suggests doing so. Yesterday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that Greece would increase their territorial waters up to 12 ...
August 10 was the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Sevres- it was also the day RV MTA Oruc Reis commenced its mission of seismic exploration in Turkey’s Eastern Mediterranean continental shelf, which had been postponed. As the RV MTA Oruc Reis departed from Antalya, while Greece, the EU and the United States began to launch counter-measures on every imaginable ...
Over the last week, Turkey celebrated Victory Day on the 30th. Escalating tensions with Greece on the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean Seas were another agenda of the Turkish public last week. What is Victory Day? August 30 is celebrated in Turkey as “Victory Day”, commemorating the end of the Turkish War of Independence. After the Ottoman defeat in World ...