With the election of Donald Trump as president in the US, eyes turned to Europe. After all, the signals of this change in the US first came from Europe. The European governments with the globalists in the driving seat found themselves in serious crises when they were dragged behind Biden’s plans. The nationalist forces that stood against this achieved important ...
The US election, closely watched worldwide, was also followed with great interest in Türkiye. After Donald Trump was elected president, President Erdoğan shared a congratulatory message on social media. Erdoğan’s message read: “I extend my congratulations to my friend Donald Trump, who has been reelected as the President of the United States after a big struggle. In this new term ...
By Adem Kılıç, political scientist, Türkiye During Trump’s first term as the US President between 2017 and 2021, Türkiye and the US had disagreements on many issues. During Trump’s first term, relations between Türkiye and the US were marked by periodic problems, ranging from the crisis over Trump’s letter to President Erdoğan to the Pastor Brunson incident, from the Halkbank ...
The “Kurdistan Party” and Israeli officials announced that they will hold a panel on November 14 titled “Israeli-Kurdish Alliance for a New Middle East: Future Risks and Opportunities.” The panel announcement states that “in parallel with HAMAS’s October 7th Al-Aqsa Flood Operation, Türkiye has also increased its attacks against the PKK/PYD in northern Syria, and therefore Kurdish-Jewish cooperation is urgent.” ...
Türkiye’s political scene has been lively last week once again.President Erdoğan addressed the recent statement of Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli, a coalition partner, who suggested inviting PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan to Parliament to formally announce the dissolution of the terrorist organization PKK. Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek made statements regarding the great ongoing economic turbulence. The main opposition ...
Türkiye is at a crossroads, says Bercan Tutar, an expert on international politics and columnist at Turkish daily newspaper Sabah. He states that the Russian Special military Operation in Ukraine in many ways is like Türkiye’s long-enduring fight against the terror organization PKK. Here are the reasons he states in the interview with UWI and also the choice Ankara faces. ...
By Adem Kılıç * Türkiye’s military presence and operations in Iraq are also having an impact in Iraq after Syria, as a manifestation of Türkiye’s “eradicating terrorism at its source” approach since 2017. Launched in 2019, the Claw Operations aimed to end the presence of the terrorist organization PKK in northern Syria and Iraq and to sever the terrorists’ ties ...
We conducted an interview with Turkish journalist Ceyhun Bozkurt on Türkiye-US relations, Türkiye’s position in NATO and Türkiye’s alternatives to the alliance.In order to evaluate these properly, we looked at the situation in a wide geography from Iraq to Syria, from the Black Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean. The US continues to support the PKK/PYD terrorist organization. Washington recently announced ...
By Yunus Soner Last week, Türkiye and Iraq signed an agreement on military and security. We asked Ceyhun Bozkurt, Turkish international politics expert, about the content and the effects of the agreement. To begin with, what is the content of the agreement? On August 15, Türkiye and Iraq’s Internal Affairs Ministers, Defense Ministers, Foreign Ministers and Intelligence Officials came together ...
West Asia is living tectonic shifts at all of its corners, from the Palestine conflict over the Iranian-Israeli tensions, from Turkish-Iraqi agreements to rapprochement between Ankara and Damascus and its repercussions in the Ukraine conflict. We asked Ismail Hakkı Pekin, retired lieutenant-general of the Turkish Armed Forces and former Head of Intelligence at the General Staff, on his evaluations. Let ...