Turkey, as always, had a busy public agenda last week. The tensions between Turkey and NATO continue to escalate, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey would veto the membership application of Sweden and Finland. The public rallies held by both the government and the opposition parties one after another, were considered as the unofficial start of the presidential ...
While Israeli President Isaac Herzog ‘s visit to Turkey – the first after 14 years – was still continuing being echoed, the Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis visited Turkey. One of the important topics of the visit, which was evaluated positively in terms of Turkish-Greek relations, was the Eastern Mediterranean and energy. In the meantime, Ankara carried out intense diplomatic traffic ...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s two-day visit to Turkey still causes echoes. This was the first high-level visit by an Israeli President since former Israeli President Ehud Olmert travelled to Turkey in 2008. The two countries’ relations had come to an end after ‘Mavi Marmara’ (Gaza Flotilla) incident in 2010. United World International expert Elif İlhamoğlu interviewed Ismail Hakkı Pekin, retired ...
By Adem Kılıç* In the wake of the US withdrawing its backing for the EastMed pipeline Project, which was planned chiefly in countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, discussions on the larger emerging political reality around the pipeline are sparking up as well. The project, which was intended to transport gas reserves located in the Mediterranean Sea (and in particular reserves ...
Turkey has entered the new year with some hot topics. The bilateral meetings between the Turkish and Chinese officials in Chinese Capital Beijing, was among these hot topics for Ankara. On the other hand, tensions between Greece and Turkey in the Aegean also increased this week. Another hot topic discussed in Ankara were the recent incidents in Kazakhstan. The critical ...
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 ...
Last week, the public agenda in Turkey has been busy with three main topics. First topic was the official statement by ambassadors of the US, Canada, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Germany, and France regarding the trial of Osman Kavala, a FETO convict, and President Erdogan’s reactions. Second topic was the prolongation of military deployment to Iraq ...
Last week, the public’s attention in Turkey was divided between three main topics. The first topic was the cancellation of the friendship match between Turkish Galatasaray Football Club and the Greek Olympiacos Football Club due to Greek officials refusing the PCR tests the Turkish players had before the game. The second was the rising popularity of the Hungarian Ambassador in ...
Last week, the public agenda in Turkey has been bust with three main topics. The first topic was the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu’s visit to Greece, where many issues were discussed with his counterpart. The second was a meeting between a delegation from the US Department of the State and Turkish Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin, where bilateral ...
The political history Greece all the way up to the coup d’état in 1973, is simply the history of a constant struggle between the monarchists and their opposers. The energy that came out of this clash has many times led to some very serious polarizations and prepared the suitable conditions for a civil war environment. But let us also add ...