In early July, several leaders of Azov, a terrorist organization, were transferred from Turkey to Ukraine where they were honored as heroes upon returning home. This gesture followed immediately after Vladimir Zelensky’s visit to Ankara. In addition to this incident, new agreements between Turkey and Ukraine were widely covered in mass media, including the confirmation…
Elections always suggest new hopes, new changes and new faces of those who will then generate innovations. During the election campaign, Recep Erdogan promised, in case of his victory, to significantly change the composition of the government, and to send the current ministers as members to parliament. Erdogan, as it is known, always means what…
Under Erdogan, Ankara is not afraid of being independent, or buying military products not “Made in USA,” Steven Sahiounie writes. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a third term as President of Turkey which will extend his time in power to a quarter of a century. The authoritarian leader has won another five years at the…
Among the host of implications for international security stemming out of Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s election victory in the runoff on Sunday — be it in the Black Sea, Eastern Mediterranean, Transcaucasus, West Asia or Eurasian integration — what stands out is his mediatory role in the Ukraine conflict. The international community puts China as…
The collective west was dying to bury him – yet another strategic mistake that did not take into account the mood of Turkish voters in deep Anatolia. In the end, Recep Tayyip Erdogan did it – again. Against all his shortcomings, like an aging neo-Ottoman Sinatra, he did it “my way,” comfortably retaining Turkiye’s presidency…
President Erdogan’s re-election in Turkey is a monumental failure of Western pressure. Because of it, it’s time to take our eyes off Ukraine and look at a different theater of World War III with equal if not bigger implications. Turkey is another in a now long string of failed Economic Hitman operations cum Color Revolutions….
