Last week, the Turkish public agenda has been busy with three main topics. The first was the second phase of the counter-terror Operation Claw-Eagle by the Turkish Armed Forces and the execution of 13 civilians by the PKK terrorist organization. The second topic was the ongoing negotiations and arguments about a resolution, whether the island of Cyprus should be governed ...
Süleyman Özmen, Head of International Affairs Department (Rumeli University in Istanbul) and member of the Turkish Armed Forces, stressed in an interview with uwidata.com that events in the region are precursors to a major war. He notes that”the main goal is to ignite a large-scale ethnic and religious clash.” According to Özmen, one operation will not be enough to destroy terrorism ...