Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator There are signs that Turkey and Syria may be ready to repair their relationship after a decade of conflict has divided the two neighbors. Turkish media Hurriyet reported on September 16 that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had expressed a wish to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. According […]
Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator On October 10, a US-led coalition drone strike killed an IS terrorist in northeastern Syria. The terrorist was riding a motorcycle in a village occupied by Radical Islamic mercenaries employed by Turkey near Tel Albyat. Since the defeat of ISIS in Syria in 2019, the terrorist group now referred […]
Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, and President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran held talks yesterday in Tehran at the 7th Astana summit for peace in Syria, stressing the need for respecting Syria’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity. The summits date from January 2017, and […]
Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The UN Security Council has agreed to extend a system for cross-border aid to Idlib, Syria until January 2023. The US and its allies had demanded a year-long extension, but Russia used its veto on Friday. UN and other NGO aid delivery trucks will cross from Turkey into Syria […]
Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on June 20 on his first stop of his Middle East tour that comes ahead of a visit from US President Joe Biden to Saudi Arabia next month. During the two-day visit to Egypt, companies from […]
Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Suleyman Soylu, Turkish Interior Minister, announced on Saturday new measures affecting Syrians living in Turkey. Firstly, Ankara has banned all Syrians from visiting their relatives in Syria during the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which will take place in mid-July. A similar ban had been applied earlier in […]
Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on May 23 a new military operation in northern Syria to establish a 30-kilometer-wide zone of Turkish occupation. Erdogan terms the proposed action as a counterterrorism operation, with details to be announced in the next National Security Council meeting. Turkey views the US-sponsored Kurdish […]
https://www.mideastdiscourse.com/2021/06/15/erdogan-staged-a-coup-to-si… Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Turkey’s armed forces are known for their efficiency. However, officers bungled the coup attempt so badly that critics describe the events of July 15, 2016, as a “self-coup” organized by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to justify consolidating his grip on power, which resulted in 300 deaths and […]
Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Turkey launched a cross-border attack against separatist Kurdish militants in northern Iraq within hours of US President Joe Biden’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide carried out 106 years ago by the former Turkish government. US troops, and their Kurdish allied militia, the Syrian Defense Forces (SDF), came under armed […]
Khaled Iskef, Journalist
Local sources from Afrin in Aleppo northern countryside said that Turkish-backed armed groups stormed large areas of agricultural lands in the region, and stole the sumac crops in those lands during the past two days.
