Turkey

South Front The situation in the northern Syrian provinces of Aleppo and al-Hasakah is once again escalating amid speculations on the upcoming Turkish advance in the area. In recent weeks,

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator US Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reintroduced the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act, on Wednesday. The bill urges the US State Department to designate the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as a foreign terrorist organization. Republican Senators. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Ron Johnson […]

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitions have been a major challenge for the European Union and the USA in recent times. The Turkish president blackmailed Europe with migrants. He irritates Washington by buying Russian air defense systems, thus weakening NATO’s security system. However, Erdogan is causing Moscow just as much trouble. Negotiations between the presidents of Russia […]

Turkey, once begging to enter the EU, is now becoming a truly independent power.

In recent decades, Turkey has laid claim to playing the role of a new regional superpower, and has increasingly begun to pursue an independent foreign policy, which many political scientists have dubbed Neo-Ottomanism. Furthermore, Ankara’s expansionist ambitions have started to mushroom very quickly, and it is attempting not only to position itself as a regional […]

Ankara is quickly showing that a new attitude towards human rights and liberties is the only way forward to work with Joe Biden’s administration – one more nail in the coffin of EU plans to be a superpower.

By Paul Antonopoulos | November 30, 2020 Trade agreements between the UK and Turkey are “very close,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said during a visit to Britain in July. London’s endeavour to secure post-Brexit trade agreements reflects on the status of its economic relations with Turkey. A UK-Turkey trade agreement is important for both […]

By Scott Ritter | RT | November 29, 2020 From Syria to Libya to Nagorno-Karabakh, this new method of military offense has been brutally effective. We are witnessing a revolution in the history of warfare, one that is causing panic, particularly in Europe. In an analysis written for the European Council on Foreign Relations, Gustav […]

By Daniel Lazare | Strategic Culture Foundation | November 28, 2020 As Joe Biden unveils his hawkish cabinet picks, it’s hard not to get the sense that we’re all hurtling back in time to those glorious days of regime change when the United States believed it had a sacred right to topple any government that […]