Azeri journalist Fuad Seferov who lives in Moscow published the Picture of boots of Enver Pasha which are on exhibit in the Russian Museum of War in a piece he wrote for Medya Günlüğü website on June 4.
The Turkish military has been giving strong signals for a few days that a big operation could be on the agenda against strongholds of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.
Problems in Turkey’s foreign relations are not limited to those sourcing from the Syrian civil war or the multi-layered rifts with its major ally, the U.S. Those problems are the biggest ones and Ankara hopes that the upcoming June 4 meeting between Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and his U.S. host Mike Pompeo will bring some ease to them.
The first question is this: Does the U.S. have any right to complain about Iran’s influence in Syria as the country who presented Iraq on a silver platter to Iran some 15 years ago?
Turkey’s snap elections are only 23 days away but opinion polls are far from giving convergent results.
Following a telephone conversation between Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 29 regarding Syria, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman is scheduled to meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Shvigo today, May 30. Turkish presidential sources said matters related to the Astana deal between Russia, Turkey and Iran for a de-escalation of tension in Syria were particularly discussed by Erdoğan and Putin.
“Hey George! Hey Hans! You will not be able to put us down! Because my people are behind me!” Turkish President said in a rally in the western city of Manisa on May 28, campaigning for the June 24 snap election.
A framework agreement was reached between Turkish and U.S. diplomats in talks carried out in Ankara on May 25 on a roadmap to be followed for the security of the Syrian town of Manbij, currently held by the Syrian-Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), officials from both sides confirmed.
President Tayyip Erdoğan’s plans to reduce the number of ministries if elected seems to aim beyond simply cutting the spending of the huge bureaucratic machine of Turkey.
