Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan’s deputy secretary general on foreign and security policy matters and spokesman İbrahim Kalın made two important remarks on April 5 about Turkey’s military operation into Syria.
The answer to the question in the headline is obvious, but the current scene may be confusing for some. Just an hour before the joint press conference of Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani started in Ankara, German Ambassador to Turkey Martin Erdmann held a lunch meeting with the press. “There isn’t any logical place for Turkey’s geopolitical location other than the Euro-Atlantic sphere. And I’m saying this on the day after the ground was broken for a Turkish-Russian nuclear power plant,” Erdmann said.
The ground for the first nuclear power plant in Turkey was laid in the Akkuyu district on the country’s Mediterranean coast on April 3. In the capital Ankara, Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin together remotely pushed the button to start the construction work.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin are today scheduled to jointly lay the ground for Turkey’s first nuclear power plant in the Akkuyu district on the Mediterranean coast.
In the March 30 edition of the New York Times, Roger Cohen’s article* titled “Some Reflections on Journalism” quoted the Israeli novelist Amos Oz: “Facts at times become the dire enemies of truth.”
One of the most interesting statements regarding developments in Syria on March 30 came from Colonel General Sergey Rudskoy, the Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff. “The native Arab population has begun an uprising against U.S.-controlled units in the suburbs of Raqqa,” Rudskoy said.
Egypt’s election board has announced that Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was reelected president for a second term in the March 26-28 election with 92 percent of the vote but only 40 percent turnout.
After a number of trial and error moves, U.S. President Donald Trump has come up with one of the most hawkish security teams in recent memory – perhaps even more hawkish than that of George W. Bush.
Little was expected from the March 26 meeting in the Bulgarian port town of Varna between Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan and leaders of the European Union, even though some had hoped that at least moves toward an upgrading of the existing Customs Union agreement could emerge.
