Masoud Barzani, the outgoing president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), is talking about “betrayal” and questioning why the U.S. allowed the Iraqi army and its Iranian-backed Shiite militias to use American-supplied arms to expel its allies, the Kurds, from Kirkuk.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is worried about 2019, the year that is expected to transform Turkey politically as a result of three crucial elections
Following Washington’s decision to suspend non-immigration visas for new visa applications by Turks, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said it was “no wonder that over 80 percent of Turks don’t like America.”
In his address to parliament on Oct. 1, during the ceremony to mark the new legislative year, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan repeated yet again that Turkey was not dependent on its EU membership perspective anymore, especially at a time when, as he claimed, Europe is supporting anti-Turkish terrorism.
As expected, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won the German elections with 33 percent of the votes. This is less than expected but a victory it still is. The real winner, however, appears to be the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which gained an unprecedented 13 percent of the votes.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is scheduled to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in New York on Sept. 21, on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. Under normal circumstances the expectation would be that something concrete comes out of this meeting, given that we have the leaders of two supposedly strategic partners with common regional and global interests.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has put his stamp on the German federal elections and drawn Berlin into a fight it never wanted to be a part of. With 3 million expatriate Turks in Germany, most of them avid Erdoğan supporters, and German investments in Turkey worth billions of euros, it is clear that Berlin has been pushed off balance in this squabble.
It seems that Turkey’s deal with Russia for the S-400 Triumf long-range anti-aircraft missile system is going ahead
I was asked recently by a western media outlet whether it was conceivable that main opposition Republican Peoples Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu could be arrested, on charges ranging anywhere from treason to aiding and abetting terrorism.
