Iran's Supreme Leader has reiterated his call on Muslim nations to keep fighting against Israel. "The fight against this despotic regime [Israel] is the fight against oppression and the fight…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has denounced the declaration by United States President Joe Biden that 1915-1917 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, and called for the…
United States President Joe Biden has broken with decades of policy by declaring that the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide. Biden’s recognition of the deaths…
Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz has been invited to attend an official conference in Turkey, in what may signal a thaw in frosty relations between the two countries. Steinitz participation…
By Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak A storm over a petition by retired naval officers once again has revealed longstanding tensions between the civilian Turkish government and the Turkish military,…
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said he informed United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Ankara’s purchase of Russian air defenses is not up for discussion. “On the S-400s,…
Turkey’s lira briefly fell 15% yesterday following the shock dismissal of the country’s Central Bank Governor Naci Ağbal by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Ağbal was abruptly fired on Saturday, just 2…
Cairo and Ankara have resumed diplomatic contacts, after years of tension since the Egyptian army toppled a Muslim Brotherhood president close to Turkey. While confirming the renewal of ties, Egyptian…
By Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, Expert on modern Turkey and Dr. Jonathan Spyer, Expert on Syria, Iraq, radical Islamic groups, and Kurds Erdoğan has created a private military and…
Turkey and Greece ended their 5-year refusal to negotiate a resolution to escalating hostilities over the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Representatives from Ankara and Athens resumed talks yesterday in Istanbul, aimed…
