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Washington’s longest week SEDAT ERGİN

Washington’s longest week

On Jan. 20, exactly eight days from today, if any new incidents do not occur, the U.S.’s new president, Democrat Joe Biden, will start his duty by taking his oath with a ceremony in front of the Congress building, which was targeted by radical Trump supporters on Jan. 6.

January 11 2021
Who is shooting who in Idlib and why SEDAT ERGİN

Who is shooting who in Idlib and why?

The fact that Russian warplanes on Oct. 26 shot one of Syria’s leading armed opposition group’s training center in Idlib, causing a heavy life loss, has created a new situation, which should be addressed in the context of the developments in Idlib and the overall course of Turkey-Russia relations.

October 27 2020
Observations on the tense period in the east Med SEDAT ERGİN

Observations on the tense period in the east Med

In the future, when one will want to remember the summer of 2020, the first images that will probably come to mind will be the maps of the eastern Mediterranean divided by various colored-lines, covering the background of television programs, successive naval advisory (Navtex) announcements, Turkey’s seismic survey vessel Oruç Reis, the Meis Island, the mutual challenges between Turkish and Greek warships and the dogfights between warplanes in the airspace.

September 22 2020
The coup in Mali and Turkey’s stance SEDAT ERGİN

The coup in Mali and Turkey’s stance

The situation created by a military coup in Mali last month seems to a be a candidate to emerge as a new controversy in international politics. The visit of Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to Mali after the coup and his meeting with the leadership of the military council that carried out the coup makes Turkey part of the equation in Mali and the debate on this.

September 18 2020
Looking back at July 15 on its fourth anniversary SEDAT ERGİN

Looking back at July 15 on its fourth anniversary

If helicopter pilot Major O.K., tasked at Ankara Güvercinlik Army Aviation Regiment, did not back out from joining the coup - as a result of a conscientious reckoning - and did not disclose the plan by meeting with the Nationalist Intelligence Organization (MİT) at the last minute, and if the Fetullahist criminal organization did not start the coup earlier after being aware of some precautions (taken against them), what would have happened to the course of history in Turkey?

July 15 2020
Deciphering the March 5 agreement in 10 articles SEDAT ERGİN

Deciphering the March 5 agreement in 10 articles

One more time, there was no break with tradition. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin took the tension under control with the agreement they reached and lowered the pressure of the crisis which was dangerously escalating.

March 07 2020
Moving towards the most dangerous phase in Syria SEDAT ERGİN

Moving towards the most dangerous phase in Syria

As of last week, the situation in Idlib’s field was showing a dangerous and escalating trend, as Turkey, on the one side, and the [Syrian leader Bashar al-] Assad-Russia duo, on the other, gaining leverage against each other with the new positions they have taken up. 

February 11 2020
Idlib dominated the agenda again SEDAT ERGİN

Idlib dominated the agenda again

While Ankara has paid close attention to firstly “Operation Peace Spring” in the east of the Euphrates, then the maritime boundaries in the eastern Mediterranean, Libya, now Idlib, east of southern Hatay province, is on Turkey’s agenda one more time, as a focal point of a new crisis.

December 25 2019
Turkish-Russian relations on a stress test in Idlib SEDAT ERGİN

Turkish-Russian relations on a stress test in Idlib

Turkey and Russia have indirectly been at odds amid developments in Idlib in Syria’s northwest. This was happening in contradiction to the great rapprochement in Turkish-Russian relations thanks to the arrival of the S-400 air missile systems.

August 20 2019