The Blue Homeland naval exercise is a manifestation against the enlarging bloc against Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean, retired admiral Cem Gürdeniz told me in an interview published on March 4.
Currently Turkey’s decision to purchase Russian S400 anti ballistic missile defense system stands as the most immediate potentially explosive crisis between Ankara and Washington.
This is where we are currently in terms of the stalemate between the United States and Turkey on the latter’s decision to purchase S400 anti-ballistic missile system from Russia.
Last Friday night I watched the 2016 American movie “LBJ” about the U.S.’s 36th president.
Anyone committed to universal human rights must be filled with a feeling of utter disappointment looking at pictures coming from Egypt’s Sharm Al-Sheik: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and King Salman of Saudi Arabia standing between European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at the first joint European Union/Arab League summit.
I am from that generation that stood and waited in lines just to get one kilogram of meat. These were in the late 1970’s.
To put it bluntly, European countries do not want to take back hundreds of their nationals who remain captured as ISIL members in northern Syria.
The Research Center on Asylum and Migration (IGAM) has recently released a study on the coverage of refugees in the Turkish media.
FETÖ schools abroad used to be promoted as one of the key civilian institutions to project Turkey’s soft power. Justice and Development Party (AKP) governments encouraged their foreign interlocutors to facilitate the activities of these schools until 2013, when it realized that FETÖ members were not their friends, but their foes.
