Retired Lt. Gen. Ismail Hakkı Pekin is the former Head of Turkey’s General Staff Intelligence Agency between 2007-2011. He was born in 1951 in Iznik. He is married and is the father of two children.

“The PKK is priority in talks to Israel”

Turkey and Israel are two influential countries in West Asia. Differences in the Palestine and Kurdish Questions, relations to Israel and conflicting positions in the Eastern Mediterranean have caused several

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The Astana model for the Karabakh conflict

The counter attack launched by the Azerbaijani armed forces after Armenia had opened fire on Azeri settlements is still ongoing. While 6 villages were liberated in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh during

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