Analyzing Turkish-American relations, Tolga Tanış wrote in daily Hürriyet on July 10 that the flexibility capability in Turkey’s foreign and security policies has been hampered by an “Iraq syndrome"
The fallout from the Iraq inquiry in the Chilcot Report, as it is publicly known, echoed across the world after being revealed by Sir John Chilcot on July 6
The Turkish Foreign Ministry said on June 6 that Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu had not said Turkey had signed a secret deal with the U.S. government, as was reported by French newspaper Le Monde, over ongoing operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the Manbij region of Syria
In his Eid al-Fitr message on July 4, Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said Ankara is engaged in a process of mending “strained” foreign relations, in order to leave crises behind and move on
The need to transport natural gas found off of Israel to EU markets was one of the main motivations for the normalization deal between Israel and Turkey, reached on June 26
Turkey is set to help Israel take back from Hamas the dead bodies of two Israeli soldiers killed during the Israeli operation on Gaza in July 2014, diplomatic sources have told the Hürriyet Daily News
Three suicide attackers reportedly acting on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) attacked Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport late on June 28, killing at least 41 and wounding some 250, 40 critically
As more positive signs poured in about the possible normalization of Turkish-Russian relations on June 28, details also started to surface regarding details of the diplomacy carried out between Ankara and Moscow
It was almost clear last week that Turkey and Israel were likely to reach a deal to normalize their relations on June 26
