Turkey's New Security Concept
Turks are trying to adapt to the regional order's downfall and a dangerous increase in the number of failed states in the neighborhood
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US-Turkey: Whose Axis is Shifting?
If the conditions are favorable, Turkey might follow the course of military cooperation with Russia until the end, regardless of whatever reactions it bears the brunt of from the NATO side.
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Omitting Turkey from Iraqi agenda or placing the country into a secondary position due to the pressure from Iran will not create a new and peaceful Iraq
The worst is yet to come: We need to figure out who will replace Daish and what they are planning to do with the territories under their control
Focus mustly not on the ideological, but the practical benefits of keeping Washington on the agenda
In response to the Obama administration's actions, Turks continue to increase the number of their own 'local partners' in the fight against Daesh.
Why is Turkey eager to liberate Raqqa and Mosul?
Turkey has no choice but to implement a counterterrorism policy capable of addressing region-wide challenges related to the de facto unification of Syria and Iraq.
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Operation Euphrates Shield Accelerating Process in Syria
Operation Euphrates Shield has mobilized the Syria equation again and accelerated the political process. It also came to light that the quelling of the July 15 coup attempt intensified Turkey's counter-terror activities both in Syria and Northern Iraq
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U.S. President Barack Obama once said during an interview that he resented President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan because he did not employ his great army to fight DAESH.
The increasing intensity of terrorist attacks on Turkish soil by both DAESH and PKK operatives demonstrate that Turkey's entrance in Syria will create shockwaves by the illicit structures on the ground.
What keeps opposition leaders up at night is the off chance that the AK Party will be able to build a grand multi-party coalition to push presidentialism through Parliament.
Unwilling to take up an effective role in finding a political or military solution to the Syrian crisis, the EU and U.S. have to follow Turkey's lead
Taking his time to set up a de facto safe zone in the Azaz-Jarablous area, Mr. Obama wants to take his YPG policy to the next level and save his staff the trouble of tip-toeing around an obvious fact.
The passive attitude kept up by the U.S. throughout all of the processes in the Middle East is not a result of indecisiveness but the very policy itself, which Ankara knows
The doctrines of President George W. Bush and Obama made long-term uncertainty innate to the region, which would change the security and alliance structures of the Middle East. But how?
Since Erdoğan ended the old habit of the pro-West intelligentsia in Turkey, he has been portrayed as a sultan, and Turkey as an authoritarian state
The U.S. must give up its 'saving the day-policy' and realize the long-term importance of engaging in Turkey's fight against the PKK's Syrian branch PYD
Calling for renewed talks may be tempting, but it has little meaning until Turkey removes PKK militants from the southeast and the international community draws up a plan to facilitate political transition in Syria
The PKK is an ultra-pragmatist terror organization that can use even the peace rhetoric to fool communities.
The West has a new approach toward Turkey. On issues like terrorism and the refugee crisis, in which Western nations have a vested interest, they engage in constructive dialogue with the government. Just in case negotiations don't go as planned, they threaten to complain about Turkey's purported slide into authoritarianism and the decline in press freedom.
The PYD does not represent the whole Kurds living in the north of Syria and, in fact, a large group of Kurds, escaping from PYD, fled to Northern Iraq, Muhittin Ataman said.
