The Turkish government’s Syria policy was based on the assumption that the U.S. and the West would put their weight behind toppling the Bashar al-Assad regime in the fall of 2011, as in Libya earlier in the same year
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan gave one of his strongest messages during an Istanbul evening organized at the historic Çırağan Palace on Feb. 20 for the occasion of UNESCO’s naming of Gaziantep as the “city of gastronomy”
A bomb blast rocked central Ankara at rush hour on the evening of Feb. 17, killing 28 and wounding 61
The most interesting news of yesterday (Feb. 16) was about a statement by an unnamed Turkish official who said the government was “asking allies” about the possibility of a land operation into Syria
Unless Turkey is directly attacked by Syrian forces, it is not very likely that the Turkish army will be deployed in Syria
As Turkish artillery started pounding Syrian-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) military positions in Syria on Feb. 13, it became clear what Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu meant last week when he said: “Just wait, you’ll see.”
The alleged minutes of a conversation about the Syrian refugee flow between Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and EU Council President Donald Juncker have appeared in the Turkish media, quoted from Greek websites where they first appeared
“Are you mocking us?” Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan attacked the United Nations on Feb. 10. The day before, a U.N. official had called on Ankara to “open its border” to Syrian refugees who have started to pile up on the border
Distress in Ankara is growing as more support is declared by Turkey’s major ally, the United States, for the Syrian Kurdish group the Democratic Union Party (PYD)
