Turkey's quest for pre-electoral alliances in local elections
Turkey has been discussing the possibilities and limitations of pre-electoral alliances in the local elections for awhile now.
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The clash of interests in Idlib
Regional and global actors cannot reach common ground in order to end the Idlib crisis, signaling that the Syrian civil war will most probably get worse in the future
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With the U.S. midterm elections around the corner, public debate on President Donald Trump's political future is heating up.
The crisis in Idlib has brought the question of Syria to the top of the agenda one more time for the world.
The Tehran trilateral summit did not result in the best solution to the crisis in Idlib, but it was a good starting point for the peace process
One of the most significant unknowns in Washington for the last seven years has been the Syrian policy. The inconsistency between rhetoric and policy, the absence of a strategy and indecisiveness were considered the pillars of the U.S. position
Erdoğan's warning on FETÖ threat in Kyrgyzstan
Earlier this week, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan along with a large delegation, including myself. The top two items on the agenda were the economic integration of the Turkic world and the fight against the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ).
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Balancing against American hegemony
The current American administration, led by an ultra-nationalist and xenophobic politician, has abandoned the traditional principles of American hegemony, namely liberal democracy and the free market
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Syrian regime forces are preparing to launch a major military operation against opposition-led groups in the Idlib province of northern Syria.
The foreign policy makers of the Trump administration are damaging the U.S.' prestige among its allies, leaving the country more isolated than ever
The strained atmosphere between Turkey and the U.S. is not likely to change until Trump stops being a bully
There have been a lot of questions about the future of the Turkish-American partnership for the last few weeks.
By making this new proposal, Macron's goal is to prevent Russian pressure on Europe and keep Turkey in the EU's corner without granting the Turks full membership
The U.S. administration's anti-Turkey actions have led Ankara to simultaneously end its disagreements with EU countries and deepen its strategic partnership with Moscow
There was a time when you could have called Turkey's relationship with the U.S. a "strategic partnership."
Whether Trump gets impeached or not, the international community will have to deal with the negative side effects of the impeachment process
For the past five years, the Western media has engaged in an endless "discussion" on Turkey.
The Trump administration's controversial and reckless moves against Ankara are about to spell the end of the traditional Turkey-U.S. partnership
The Trump administration's policy of economic selfishness doesn't just make the U.S. look like a vulgar and isolated superpower, but at the same time encourages the world's leading economies to work more closely together
Diplomacy is becoming a more complicated enterprise with the increasing elements of uncertainty and unpredictability.
The unilateralist trend that was launched by George W. Bush, who said "you are either with us or against us," actually continued in different forms in the successive U.S. administrations
