Air Forces Commander Gen. Abidin Ünal’s statement on Oct. 5 amounted to a brief summary of the state of affairs in Turkey’s neighborhood.
I have come across this famous quote “Where law ends, tyranny begins,” carved on a wall at Capitol Hill in Des Moines, Iowa a few weeks ago.
This year’s New York City gathering of world leaders was the fifth U.N. General Assembly the defiant leader of Syria, President Bashar al-Assad, could survive despite numerous crimes he has committed against humanity since 2011
It was mid-July this year when senior American officials described a deal between Ankara and Washington over the former’s full and active participation in the international coalition’s fight against ISIL, opening its most strategic bases to coalition countries as a “game changer” with the hopes that Turkey’s move would help to defeat jihadists in Syria and Iraq.
It was in 2014 when the Freedom House decreased Turkey’s press freedom status from partly free to not free as a result of sharp deterioration in press freedom in 2013.
Nearly 10 months ago, on Dec. 1, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin surprised the world with the announcement of the cancellation of the South Stream Project, a pipeline to be constructed under the Black Sea and through Bulgaria to supply some 64 bcm natural gas to European countries.
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) will convene its regular convention on Sept. 12 nearly a year after Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu was elected as the chairman of the party to replace its charismatic leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Only two days after Turkey lost 16 of its soldiers in a heinous attack by the outlawed PKK in Dağlıca in southeastern Hakkari province, 14 police officers were massacred in an explosion on Sept. 8 in eastern Iğdır, on the border with Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic.
One of the issues that the National Security Council (MGK), Turkey’s top security board, discussed at its meeting earlier this week focused on the measures to be taken for the early elections set for Nov. 1.
