According to the prevailing atmosphere in Ankara, the Bashar al-Assad regime is moving out of Turkey’s threat and target perception, while Turkey is ready to welcome a Kurdish presence at the upcoming Geneva talks - with one big condition.
“There are two overriding problems for every prisoner,” writes Enis Berberoğlu in his recently published book “Notes Written While You March and I’m In Jail.” The first one, Berberoğlu says, is “surviving in jail.” The second is “trying finding ways to get out” (of course through legal means, he adds).
After cooperating to be apart of a solution to the Syria civil war, will Turkey and Russia now try to find a way to solve the latest Jerusalem tension, in the absence of engaged partners in the Western defense alliance NATO?
In the first official visit of a Turkish president to Greece’s capital in 65 years, Tayyip Erdoğan has taken off his gloves and caught the Greek leaders off guard by opening up a debate on the 94-year-old Treaty of Lausanne.
There is no need to delay moving the U.S. embassy, now that President Donald Trump has officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Indeed, construction and moving works will take some time anyway. It is better to start early.
Amid the ongoing anger of President Tayyip Erdoğan, who accuses the U.S. of conspiring against both himself and Turkey in the Reza Zarrab case, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has accused Erdoğan of “letting the spy in.”
It is possible that people are expecting too much from the Reza Zarrab case in New York regarding links to Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan. Many could end up disillusioned.
These days the U.S. media as well as the Turkish one are dominated by the trial of Reza Zarrab, the Iranian-Turkish gold trader who pleaded guilty to breaking U.S. sanctions on Iran.
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ahmet Yıldız asked a simple question to Giampiero Massolo, the president of the Italian think tank ISPI, who was chairing the panel “Shared Security, Common Strategies” on Dec 1 at the Mediterranean Dialogues (MED) meeting in Rome
