Amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the energy interests of Moscow and Ankara appear to take precedence over the two nations’ fundamentally different geopolitical goals in places like Syria, the Black Sea region and the South Caucasus. However, despite being on opposite sides in various conflicts around the world, […]
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Erdogan: Turkey will continue to target YPG Kurds
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that the YPG militia, a Kurdish offshoot of the Syrian Defense Forces (SDF), was taking steps to divide Syria with foreign support and that it would be in the best interest of the Syrian people to rid the country of them. as reported by the Reuters agency. Speaking […]
What is hidden in Erdogan’s mind about Sweden and Finland
It has been more than a month since Finland and Sweden applied for NATO membership. But despite expectations of a speedy process, the joint request ran into an expected and embarrassing reef: Turkey. Now, less than a week before the NATO Summit in Madrid – where many believed that Swedes and Finns would formally join […]
What Erdogan’s mind hides about NATO, Sweden and Finland
It has been more than a month since Finland and Sweden applied for NATO membership. But despite expectations of a speedy process, the joint request ran into an expected and embarrassing reef: Turkey. Now, less than a week before the NATO Summit in Madrid – where many believed that Swedes and Finns would formally join […]
US returns to outposts in Syria evacuated before Erdogan’s invasion in 2019
Strengthening their presence in areas controlled by the Syrian Kurdish YPG, which Turkey considers a “branch of the PKK terrorist organization”, US forces have reopened two previously abandoned points in the northeastern province of Raqqa. country. Local sources told Anadolu Agency that US troops are being relocated to areas evacuated in Raqqa shortly before the […]