Is Erdoğan the Unwelcome Guest in Washington?

Erdoğan is expending great effort to further develop Turkish-U.S. political relations and strengthen economic relations between the two countries.

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Is Erdoğan the Unwelcome Guest in Washington
Erdoğan's Offer to the United States

Erdoğan's Offer to the United States

Erdoğan adopted a reconciliatory tone in Washington to convey the message that he was interested in addressing the pressing problems in Turkish-U.S. relations.

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The anti-DAESH campaign conducted by the global community is far from well-coordination and only serves the terror organization's interests

Although both are NATO members in the international coalition against DAESH, the U.S.'s insistence on supporting the PYD and YPG, which Ankara deems terror organizations, instead of Turkey, harms the trust between the two countries

The scandal was not just a failure of European intelligence services either, as it relates to a broader lack of coherent counterterrorism policy across the continent, which needs to be addressed by taking European-wide security cooperation to the next level.

The global community needs to stop pointing the finger at transnational terrorism as an excuse for everything and sit at the solution table to find the root cause of this international threat

PKK Follows in DAESH's Footsteps

In recent months, it has been interesting to see opposition pundits who were initially critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's assessment that the two groups were one and the same slowly reach the same conclusion.

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PKK Follows in DAESH's Footsteps
The Question of Federalism in Syria

The Question of Federalism in Syria

Russia wouldn't want to lose face in Tehran despite having bowed to Israeli pressures to limit their support for Bashar Assad and Hezbollah. Willing to do anything to weaken the Assad regime and Iran, Israel openly supports a federal solution.

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No longer can the PYD militants shake hands with Bashar Assad and continue their on-off relationship with DAESH to expand their territory. Moving forward, the group will play defense and try to keep what they have.

In the past month there have been two suicide bombings in Ankara conducted by the PKK splinter group TAK and one in Taksim in Istanbul by DAESH. Since the global community has left Turkey alone in its fight against these terrorist organizations, Ankara is determined to continue alone if necessary

The Western media's coverage of the terror attack in Turkey wasn't just hypocritical. It was evil and shameless.

In recent years to figure out what Russia really wants has become the most enigmatic question in international politics to figure out what Russia really wants.

The Turkish state has every right to defend the welfare and security of its citizens within a democratic framework via a new security paradigm and tougher penalties for those who are proved to support terrorist actions in different ways

Ankara declares war not only against the deadly terror of the PKK through its urban occupation and civilian massacres, but also against its provocative grass roots

The city of Kilis, its local communities, nongovernmental organizations and AFAD, which all provide for the needs of Syrian refugees in a very systemic way, deserve much more international recognition, than only a Nobel Peace Prize

Syria has been perishing at the hands and before the very eyes of all local and foreign parties that play a part in the Syrian war in accordance with their background projects

At the regional level, Iran will continue to aggressively pursue opportunities to increase its influence, at least until Turkey and Saudi Arabia, which are distressed by U.S. President Barack Obama's Middle East policy, are no longer troubled U.S. allies.

The Obama administration, knowing that the cease-fire would not last, started talking about Plan B in order to strong-arm Moscow into some kind of commitment.

The U.S.'s assumption that Syria's YPG will contribute to the international coalition in the fight against DAESH will put the U.S. into trouble due to the terror organization's separatist strategy in northern Syria and southeastern Turkey

The open support the U.S. is giving to a terrorist organization in Syria that has been active in Turkey for the last 30 years is creating serious questions in the minds of Turkey's political elite

PYD terrorist group supports Assad regime in attempt to benefit from Syrian civil war, says SETA.