In practice, nothing is impossible in politics, especially in the highly volatile Turkish politics full of sharp turns
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on June 8 that a bullet was thrown at him during the funeral of two police officers killed in a June 7 terrorist attack in Istanbul, which he regarded as a death threat
Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım’s first pledge when he was elected as the new chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) on May 19 was to remove the “menace of terrorism from the country’s agenda.”
The U.S.-backed militia of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has been advancing toward the town of Manbij for the last couple of days in order to retake it from the occupation of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or DAESH using Arabic initials
No, the need is not only because of the vote in the German parliament on June 2 which labelled the 1915 killings under Ottoman rule as a genocide against the Armenian population; that is just another brick in the wall
The reaction of the Turkish government to the June 2 vote in the German Parliament - describing the 1915 killings of Armenians under Ottoman rule as genocide - was not nearly as strong as the reaction against similar decisions taken by other parliaments
Actually, the tension is not only between Turkey and Russia but between the NATO alliance and Russia
A massive protest rally was organized by the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) in Istanbul on May 28 against Israel’s blockade on Gaza
Last week the Iranian press published some photos of Maj. Gen. Qasim Suleymani, the commander of the Quds Brigades, the exterior operating branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, claiming that he was now fighting at the Fallujah front
