In recent days, while the increasing incidents of radar locks by Greece on Turkish warplanes and Türkiye’s taking the issue to NATO were discussed, a new situation has emerged in Turkish-Greek relations with a statement made by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sept. 3.
While trying to understand a major international crisis or a political turbulence by tracing back the conditions that affected those events in a historical perspective, you may encounter very surprising facts that could be described as “the irony of history.”
During the last Eid al-Adha holiday, the session held at the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Turkey was very informative in terms of being able to read the course of relations with the U.S. both for the administration and the Congress.
Five years ago, on July 15, in those first moments when the coup attempt showed itself through actual moves at the field, we were in the dark about the nature, dimensions and magnitude of the attempt.
The first bilateral meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President Joe Biden after the U.S. presidential election has gained a degree of importance far above the summit, at least for the Turkish side.
As I try to follow Turkey’s relations with the world, a pattern of behavior of some countries towards Ankara draws my attention. These countries, which calculate their leverages and the suitable opportunities they have, are actualizing methods such as sanctions and embargoes against Turkey. In some cases, they use the threat of sanctions as a bargaining tool overtly or in the form of making it felt.
The May 20 meeting for the Coronavirus Science Advisory Board, held under the chairmanship of Health Minister Dr. Fahrettin Koca, became the scene to a “first.”
The declaration of U.S. presidents, or presidential candidates, on nuclear weapons at the İncirlik Base have almost started to become a tradition.
A topic from last week’s column, titled “The striking coupling of differences in Turkish-Russian relations,” included Russia’s ballistic missile attack on oil refineries in the “Operation Euphrates Shield” area in Syria.
