The most concrete observation about the meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S President Donald Trump on Nov. 13 in Washington D.C. would be the continued affinity between the two men despite a number of unresolvable disagreements.
All aside, the timing of the rendezvous between U.S. President Donald Trump and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan narrows down the expectations for a sound and realistic outcome from the White House on Nov 13.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has confirmed his visit to the United States following a phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump who will host him at the White House on Nov 13.
Amid a lot of news reports concerning Turkey’s military operation into Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s scheduled visit to Washington or strong-worded criticisms by senior Turkish officials against Western nations on the fight against terror, two major incidents drew the attention of the entire Turkish nation last week.
Bülent Arınç is not an ordinary member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). He is among the founders of the party in 2001 along with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after they parted ways with Necmettin Erbakan, the late chairman of the Virtue Party and four-decade leader of the political Islamist movement in Turkey.
Now that the war against ISIL has been largely won and that the jihadist terrorists have been pushed out of nearly all the territory it controlled in the region, a long-time lingering question on how the problems regarding the thousands of foreign fighters would be resolved has once again come to the fore, particularly after the Turkish military offensive into northeastern Syria that has drastically changed power balances in that region.
In accordance with the Oct. 22 deal in Sochi provided by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish and Russian ground and air units launched on Nov. 1 the first joint patrols in the Darbasiyah region in northeastern Syria.
Yesterday, Turkey celebrated the 96th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey in full joy and enthusiasm with the participation of huge crowds in widespread events across the country held by municipalities and various civil society organizations apart from formal receptions and celebrations
Germany’s Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer’s proposal for setting up an internationally controlled security zone in northeast Syria was among the attention-grabbing issues discussed at the NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels on Oct. 24 and 25.
