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Ankara disappointed with lack of support MURAT YETKİN

Ankara disappointed with lack of support

At the same time as the European Union’s foreign and security representative, Federica Mogherini, and Expansion Commissioner Johannes Hahn were making a joint statement over the tension between Turkey and the Netherlands on March 13, Turkish EU Affairs Minister Ömer Çelik was staging a press conference in Ankara.

March 13 2017
Turkey has never been in this position before MURAT YETKİN

Turkey has never been in this position before

The tension between Turkey and European countries over allowing propaganda speeches for the April 16 referendum campaign reached a dangerous peak when the Dutch authorities barred a Turkish minister from entering the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam on the evening of March 11.

March 12 2017
Journalists in jail and other rights issues in Turkey MURAT YETKİN

Journalists in jail and other rights issues in Turkey

Whenever the question is asked to Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ or EU Affairs Minister Ömer Çelik during their travels abroad, they give the standard answer that there is no journalist or writer in jail in Turkey for what they have written or said.

March 10 2017
Is Ankara losing political ground in Syria MURAT YETKİN

Is Ankara losing political ground in Syria?

When the news hit the wires on March 7 about a surprise meeting in Turkey between the Turkish, American and Russian top generals on Syria and Iraq, there were suggestions that there might be room for a joint strategy where Turkish concerns would be met, even if not fully. Gen. Hulusi Akar of the Chief of Turkish General Staff hosted Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Staff, and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, in the Mediterranean re

March 09 2017
Rising risk of ballot box manipulation MURAT YETKİN

Rising risk of ballot box manipulation

Wikileaks has just released thousands more documents claiming that the CIA has developed special methods to turn almost every gadget that we use in our daily lives, from TV sets to mobile phones, into a two-way monitoring device to spy on individuals

March 08 2017
Why do Muslims seek refuge in the non-Muslim West MURAT YETKİN

Why do Muslims seek refuge in the non-Muslim West?

The question is a crucial one since it is one of the main political subjects in Europe, which is about to stage a number of national elections.

March 07 2017
CHP keeps avoiding AKP traps ahead of referendum MURAT YETKİN

CHP keeps avoiding AKP traps ahead of referendum

The first step of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) that foiled a ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) plan was to not take its amendments draft to the Constitutional Court.

March 06 2017
Kurdish autonomy in Syria via Russian hands MURAT YETKİN

Kurdish autonomy in Syria via Russian hands?

The Russian military announced on March 3 that Kurdish militants of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) have started to leave their positions around Manbij in northern Syria to forces loyal to the Bashar al-Assad regime

March 03 2017
CENTCOM pushes Trump to win the battle at the cost of losing the war MURAT YETKİN

CENTCOM pushes Trump to win the battle at the cost of losing the war

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on March 2 that Ankara was resolved to march on the Syrian town of Manbij if the U.S. forces do not immediately evacuate the Kurdish militants there to east of the Euphrates.

March 02 2017