Normalisation is in the air. In the past few weeks Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced not only that he would like to have better re
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On 10 January 2021, Turkish Ministry of Defence released a video saying that the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) had carried out a total of 43 operations d
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ushered in the new year, pledging to employ his country’s military to secure Turkey’s place in a rebalanced new world o
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To be blunt, Khalifa Haftar, once a friend of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and long a prominent figure in Libyan affairs, has been trying to overthrow th
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - © Photo: File: Laszlo Balogh/Getty Images[/caption] Three basic factors underlie Turkey’s stance in the confused
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Copyright REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah/File photo[/caption] In March 2011 a few teenagers in a southern Syrian city – fired no doubt by the revolutionary
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On 28 January 2020, Turkey criticised US President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan, calling the agreement “stillborn’’. US President Donald Trump r
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In a remarkably under-reported series of events in northern Syria, the success of the joint Turkish - Free Syrian Army (FSA) Operation Euphrates Shiel
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In the heart of Athens, sidewalks teem with passersby, restaurants are packed with people and crowds flow from the metro. But take a few steps into
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Turkey – a de facto NATO-EuroMed member – moved a step closer in its bid to join the European Union after its government announced fresh talks with t
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