Last week in Türkiye, the agenda was as busy as ever. The visit of the Turkish delegation, headed by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, to Syria was at the top of the agenda. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the start of the domestic aircraft carrier construction process at a ceremony he attended at the Istanbul Shipyard Command. And the drug crackdown ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist / Author The conflict in Syria, which has been going on for more than a decade and the global competition staged there, is rapidly moving towards a different level with the recent positive steps taken by Syria’s new leader Ahmed Ash-Shara. After weeks of negotiations between Ahmed Ash-Shara and the SDF, which is composed of ...
Ankara has been facing a serious problem for decades – PKK separatism, which manifests itself both within Türkiye and beyond its borders. In particular, in northern Syria, where the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were formed. Ankara sees it as a direct continuation of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), recognized as a terrorist organization in Türkiye. This fact is the primary ...