Washington is unhappy about Turkey’s “Operation Euphrates Shield.” The potential for a serious confrontation between fighters from the Peoples Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), is very real and clearly of deep concern to it
Many will see a bitter irony in the way Turkey has welcomed the peace accord between the Columbian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which has been waging a war against the Columbian state over the past 52 years leaving over 220,000 dead
Turkey’s priorities in Syria have shifted from seeing the end of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to preventing Kurdish aspirations in that country, and fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
The failed coup attempt on July 15 put Turkey and the West at odds in a way never seen before
Turkish-EU ties are increasingly in the throes of debilitating brinkmanship based on mutual phobias and prejudices that defy logic
The failed coup attempt has thrown Turkish-U.S. ties off kilter
The crisis resulting from the downing of the Russian jet by Turkey last November, after it strayed into Turkish airspace while on a bombing mission against anti-Assad forces in Syria supported by Ankara, is officially over
Sunday’s massive rally in Istanbul, hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to celebrate the failure of the July 15 coup attempt and commemorate the fallen, was a historic event
The United States appears to have limited options regarding Fethullah Gülen
