By Islam Farag, reporting from Cairo, Egypt Last February, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Egypt, a remarkable development given years of friction between the two countries. During his important visit, Cairo and Ankara signed several agreements in the fields of tourism, culture and education. At that time, the two presidents agreed to develop a working relationship on various issues, ...
By Yiğit Saner Washington recently gave the green light to the sale of 40 F-35 fighter jets, a total of $8.6 billion worth, to Athens. According to the Greek news outlet Kathimerini, in addition to the aircraft sale, the US will also provide $200 million Foreign Military Financing assistance to Greece. The Greek newspaper further reported that, in exchange for ...
By Tevfik Kadan The United States and France have moved towards a new security concept counter to the former NATO principle of collective defense via bilateral “defense agreements” signed with Greece on multiple separate occasions. This action implies the total invalidation of NATO’s article 5, as well as the materialization of what France’s Emmanuel Macron called the “brain death” of ...