BY PROFESSOR ILTER TURAN The crisis in Ukraine has monopolized the news during the recent weeks. If a man from space read the newspaper headlines, he might easily conclude that the world has a single problem. If an agreement could be reached, then the world would indeed become a happy place, that man would think....
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Interesting developments in Idlib: OPINION
BY ZEYNEP GURCANLI Whenever Ankara makes a contrary statement to Russia on the Crimea issue, Moscow reacts unexpectedly. Now, it’s happened again. “The Russians have collapsed in the Crimea,” President Erdogan said when returning from his Albanian visit. Moscow’s reaction came through Syria. Oleg Juravlyov, one of the spokespeople of the Russian military in Syria,...
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Parliament ratifies motion on Iraq, Syria
The Turkish parliament on October 26 passed a motion that extends authorization for the government’s troop deployment in Iraq and Syria for another two years. The motion underlined that the developments in the regions adjacent to Turkey’s southern land borders and the risks and threats posed by the ongoing environment of conflict increasingly continue. Turkey...