Turkey remains at loggerheads with Greece and Cyprus over competing claims for offshore oil reserves in the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas, amid heightened activity by Ankara that signals potential impending…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used his annual end of year address to proclaim that his nation’s position will strengthen in the strategically-important eastern Mediterranean Sea as a result of…
By: Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, expert on contemporary Turkish politics and foreign policy, Turkish-Israeli relations, and the Kurds. As of 2002, Turkey has been ruled by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Justice and…
Moscow announced that Kurdish forces had withdrawn from a safe-zone near the north-eastern Syrian border with Turkey, ahead of the agreed-upon schedule. During a meeting with his Armenian counterpart in…
Russian and Turkish forces have started patrolling a narrow corridor of some 10 kilometers, equal to 6.2 miles, along the Syrian-Turkish border. The referred to patrols, sealed under an agreement…
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper has levelled serious criticism of Turkey’s invasion of Syria. While speaking at an event organized in Brussels by the German Marshall Fund of the United…
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence announced that following more than five hours of negotiations with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, “the United States and Turkey have agreed to a ceasefire…
U.S. Forces began withdrawing from positions along Syria’s northeastern border region with Turkey this morning, ahead of an expected imminent military invasion by Ankara. While the Pentagon did not immediately…
Israel has lost patience with Turkey over the Ankara’s alleged efforts to spread its influence over the pre-dominantly Arab-populated-neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Yisrael Katz, who…
Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz reiterated Jerusalem’s concerns vis-à-vis Iran, which he called the key instigator of malign behavior in the Middle East at the United Nations Headquarters in New…