A military delegation from Russia will visit Turkey on Saturday to discuss the situation in Syrian Idlib. Relations between Turkey and Russia escalated amid the Syrian Arab Army offensive which left six Turkish troops dead in the Syrian province. The Turkish side responded with a massive strike against the positions of Syrian troops. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made these ...
Turkish-American relations are currently not in the best condition. Although both countries are members of NATO, their policies and positions on many international issues are very different. The breaking points for the Turks were the Americans’ support for the Kurdish separatists in Syria and the participation of pro-American military in an attempted coup in 2016. There is also the fact ...
Considering Turkey’s conditions, for the first time in many years, we were having a calm week until the bad news came from Syria’s Idlib Province, where 6 Turkish soldiers were martyred. Turkey and Syria have clashed many times from the beginning of Syrian conflicts which ongoing for almost 10 years. After the resignation of Ahmet Davutoglu from Prime Minister position ...
Mehmet Yuva, a professor at Damascus University, responded to our questions about the crisis in Libya. After a call for a ceasefire on January 9th which was mediated by Turkey and Russia, and the temporary ceasefire on January 13 following the Moscow talks, world leaders met in Berlin on the 19th to discuss the Libyan crisis. The Berlin Conference ended ...
The marine component of geopolitics is becoming increasingly important for Turkey. This is evidenced by Ankara’s recent actions in the Mediterranean and especially the signing of an agreement on maritime borders with the Libyan Government of National Accord. It is also worth recalling the active hydrocarbon exploration activities off the coast of Cyprus. Turkey is an important player in the ...
Turkey has, once again, had an intense week on the political front. The relationship between Enver Altayli, a former staff member of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT), the Gulenist Terror Organization (FETO) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) hit the headlines after new evidence was uncovered. The case is very important for Turkish domestic politics, not only because of Altayli’s ...
Some experts have been saying that the Istanbul Canal will open the Montreux Convention up to debate, despite the government’s assurance that the Istanbul Canal and the 1936 agreement regarding Turkey’s ownership of the Turkish Straits are independent of each other. Retired Admiral Mustafa Ozbey has evaluated the Istanbul Canal’s correlation to the Montreux convention, and offered his opinions about ...
The international peace agenda in Libya has been gaining momentum. Egyptian support for the ceasefire plan, which was put forward at the initiative of Turkey and Russia, has led people to wonder if the relationship between Ankara and Cairo might finally improve as a result of mutual interests in the region. In previous articles we discussed the possibility that Cairo ...
The recent conference held in the German capital has proven that only Turkey and Russia are in a position to negotiate a peaceful settlement in Libya. Peace talks were held this Sunday as both sides of the conflict in Libya came together in Berlin. As a continuation of the talks on January 13 in Moscow, the two central opposing forces ...
“The disconnection between Turkey and Egypt has created opportunities for both countries enemies and cost both countries and the Islamic world a great deal. Ankara and Cairo have no further option but to cooperate and collaborate… why not consider making a deal similar to the one that was made with Libya?” The statements above come from Yasin Aktay, the Advisor ...
In the context of the ongoing geopolitical competition in the Eastern Mediterranean, the two central concepts constantly emphasized by Turkey’s opponents (especially in Greek and FETO controlled media) are revisionism (a stark reversal of the current geopolitical conditions) and Neo-Ottomanism. The Blue Homeland, my brainchild, is often lumped into the same category with these ideologies, especially after the Memoranda of Understanding ...
Families of Ottoman origin in South Africa have decided to apply for Turkish citizenship after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan showed interest in Africa’s Ottoman legacy. More than a hundred family members with the surnames Effendi, Pasha, Patel, Amjadi and Remzi Bey have already applied for Turkish citizenship. In the Ottoman era, their great grandfathers such as Abu Bakr Effendi ...