“I think that Mr. Biden, in order to secure Sweden and Finland, uses rhetoric that Erdogan likes, but let’s see what his actions are. The US president and the State Department have not put any pressure on Congress for the F16s, even though they are discussing it, even though they say yes officially,” said Eddie […]
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Political thriller with grain transport in the Black Sea
By Kostas Raptis Moscow and Kyiv are days away from co-signing an agreement to resume exports of Ukrainian grain and sunflower oil through the Black Sea. This was announced by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan yesterday Tuesday during joint statements with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, whom he met in Rome. “In a week or ten […]
Erdogan’s new challenges before Draghi: ‘Greece expels immigrants and they flee to Italy’
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan again made provocative statements about Greece, in front of Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. The Turkish president, in the press conference after the meeting he had with the Italian prime minister in Ankara, referred to immigration, saying that “Greece is also a danger for Italy, as it expels immigrants and they […]
Le Figaro: ‘Turkey is becoming Türkiye and this is a political issue’
In an article under the headline “Turkey no longer wants to be called a turkey”, the French newspaper Le Figaro refers to the change of Turkey’s official international name from “Turkey” (turkey in English) to “Türkiye”, approved by the UN on June 2. “The issue is not linguistic, but political,” Bayram Balci, director of the […]
Turkey: Young people who will vote for the first time weigh something unknown to them, the country without Erdogan
Six million citizens, who will be voting for the first time, are estimated to essentially decide whether President Erdogan’s stay in power will be extended for a third decade or if something they have never known will happen–Turkey will find itself under a different leader. . With less than 12 months to go until perhaps […]
The Turkish opposition bids for nationalism
By Kostas Raptis The recipe seems simple: focus on Turkey’s many and large internal problems, so that in the 2023 elections the Turkish opposition front will reap the fruits of the poll collapse, mainly due to a poll crisis, of Tayyip Erdogan and his government. But the political game is not only played within borders, […]
Coldness and zero tolerance of Athens in the face of Erdogan’s new challenges
Of Dimitris Gatsiu Athens sends out messages of calmness, determination and zero tolerance in the face of the Ovidian transformations of the president of Turkey, who adapts his rhetoric according to the audience he is addressing. After his silence at the NATO Summit, during which he did not repeat before the leaders his revisionist rhetoric, […]
What did Erdogan achieve in Madrid? Absolute nothingness
By Bobby Ghosh Judging by Turkey’s pro-government media, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan scored a major geopolitical victory for his country at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Madrid last week. “Turkey has slammed its fist on the table, Europe is on its knees,” declared the conservative newspaper Yeni Akit. This was a reference […]
New rumors about Erdogan’s health: He canceled the big and expensive rally in Bursa
A sudden change of plans by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he will not make a speech on Sunday 3/7 at a large planned rally in Bursa, sparking new rumors about his health. According to ERT, there was no announcement from the Turkish presidency, with a local member of his party speaking of a joint pregnancy. On […]
N. Anastasiadis: Erdogan said that we can meet in the northern part and I told him it is impossible
The President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, mentioned the content of his discussion with the President of Turkey on the sidelines of the EU-NATO dinner in Madrid. In his statements to journalists, on the sidelines of the monument unveiling ceremony for Glaukos Clerides and to a journalist’s remark that a lot of pressure […]
