A Turkish-US business council is projecting Turkey as a trading alternative to China with the help of influential US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a close associate of President Donald J. Trump.
Erdogan is a volatile and unstable element in the Middle East. What Erdogan has sought in his political career first and foremost, is absolute power.
A web of relationships between Turkey, Russia, Iran, and China have to a significant degree shaped Middle Eastern and North African geopolitics. The fragility of those relationships, however, begs the question whether fluidity in regional geopolitics rather than paradigm shifts is, at least for now, the name of the game.
Turkey has continued its military offensive against the Kurdish PKK in northern Iraq.
Europe is progressively being sucked into the Middle East and North Africa’s myriad conflicts. As if wars on its doorstep in Libya and Syria were not enough, UAE support for an Eastern Mediterranean pipeline that could hurt Qatar economically — combined with…
On 12 June 2020, Turkey criticised claims by Twitter that thousands of fake profiles had been set up to amplify political narratives favourable to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party. Twitter said that 7,340 accounts, primarily targeted at domestic audiences…
Turkey and Russia have been discussing a joint development of aviation and air defence systems, Director of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Dmitry Shugayev said 2 June 2020.
Why has the wind gone out of his sails, and can he ever recover the momentum that carried him to within an inch of success?
On 14 May 20, Turkey announced its intention to proceed with oil and gas drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean. Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said that seismic surveys will take place in the Mediterranean, including areas identified in the security…
Turkish defence contractor ASELSAN has signed a contract with undisclosed NATO countries for the procurement of remote controlled weapons station, which includes SARP Stabilised Advanced Remote Weapon Platform and SEDA Gunshot Detection Systems, a statement by the company said…