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New Contradictions of Turkey in the Middle East

14.02.2025 20

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Türkiye is expecting new logistical corridors

09.02.2025 20

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Prospects for Russian-Syrian relations

03.02.2025 30

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Israel is finishing one war, but preparing for the next…

29.01.2025 10

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Turkey Counts on Transit Preferences for Gas Exports to Europe

25.01.2025 10

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Russia and Iran Sign a Comprehensive Agreement

22.01.2025 10

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Syria: the fate of Russian military bases and Türkiye’s role

16.01.2025 20

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Türkiye considers its options for liquidating the ‘Kurdish threat’ in Syria

The Kurdish question is still central to Turkish expansion in Syria. In Rojava Ankara is butting heads with US and Israeli interests. In following...

04.01.2025 10

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Turkey’s Syrian Saga Threatens New Escalations in the Region

Turkey remains deeply engaged in consolidating its position in war-torn Syria, a development that displeases both internal and external actors. Is...

29.12.2024 9

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Türkiye’s regional triumph is evident

The fall of B. Assad’s regime was the result of a number of internal and external contradictions, in which the Turkish factor played a key role....

22.12.2024 5

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Syria: The Regime Changes, but the Crisis Remains

The swift fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has sparked a mixed reaction: some are filled with admiration and joy, others with surprise and...

14.12.2024 5

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The Syrian crisis may turn into a regional war

A new flare-up of the intra-Syrian conflict may lead to serious transformations of the balance of power in the Middle East. Interests of foreign...

09.12.2024 3

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Turkey Implements the Neo-Ottoman Doctrine in Syria

Ankara officially denies its involvement in the escalation of military tensions in Syria. However, Turkish influence is openly present in the...

06.12.2024 5

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Türkiye escalates in Syria

The Arab-Israeli crisis includes the Syrian conflict, where normalisation between Damascus and Ankara could be beneficial for shared peace and...

04.12.2024 4

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Israel agrees to a ceasefire with Lebanon

All wars eventually end. Israel has agreed to a ceasefire with Lebanon. Will this bring peace to the Middle East, or will it remain a “fragile”...

02.12.2024 4

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Türkiye and Russia: competitors in the post-Soviet space

Despite the air of partnership in relations with Russia, Türkiye expects to deepen its geo-political and geo-economic presence in parts of the...

27.11.2024 6

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Turkey seeks to revive its status as mediator in the Russia-Ukraine crisis

Among Turkey’s political elite, the victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election is inspiring confidence in a reboot of Turkish-American...

23.11.2024 3

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Türkiye talks of the threat of a third world war

Recep Erdoğan’s anti-Israeli attitude is turning into a fear of the threat of Israeli aggression against Türkiye, which, according to the head of...

18.11.2024 4

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Turkey reminds Russia of the contradictions...

Erdoğan characterised relations with Russia as ‘multifaceted’ at the BRICS summit in Kazan. However, the many facets do not mean that everything...

09.11.2024 8

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Is Iran in the process of deciding?

The Middle East crisis is heating up again as a result of the latest Israeli airstrikes on Iran. Tehran is deciding on an answer. Israel is not...

06.11.2024 5

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What is behind the terrorist attack in Turkey on October 23?

On October 23, in the middle of the day, a terrorist attack took place in the head office of Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. (Tusaş) in Ankara,...

01.11.2024 3

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Türkiye-BRICS: between membership and partnership

The XVI BRICS summit of heads of state in Kazan on October 22-24 was a grand international event, in which the representatives of 36 states and 6...

29.10.2024 4

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Are Turkish politicians worried about Israel’s threats?

Commenting the IDF’s invasion of Lebanon, President R. Erdogan recently allowed for the possibility of an Israeli territorial threat to Türkiye. Is...

22.10.2024 3

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The Arab-Israeli conflict, one year on

October 7 marked the one-year anniversary of the start of the current Arab-Israeli war. Let us summarize the results of the ongoing conflict to...

18.10.2024 5

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan proposes a new reform of the UN based on the principle: “The World is bigger than five states”

The UN, as a universally recognized international institution, is going through a crisis in its ability to make timely and fair decisions on...

11.10.2024 2

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Israel has started the Third Lebanese War. What about Türkiye?

On September 30 the Israeli Defence Forces started a ‘limited’ ground operation in the south of Lebanon (de facto the Third Lebanese War)....

08.10.2024 2

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Iran has found itself in a difficult situation

The targeted Israeli bombings of Beirut, as a result of which a number of high-ranking political and military officials of Hezbollah (including...

04.10.2024 2

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Iran’s president demonstrates an innovative approach to diplomacy

Tehran introduces a package of new foreign policy goals and decisions. Of course, the current political situation in the world and as it relates to...

01.10.2024 4

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Multifaceted cooperation of BRICS states: IX Legal Forum in Moscow

In these autumn days, Russia is becoming the centre of the generation of multifaceted cooperation between BRICS countries. Following the meeting on...

25.09.2024 4

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Meeting with BRICS high-ranking officials responsible for security matters: a serious effort in the fight against global threats

Vladimir Putin met with BRICS high-ranking officials responsible for security matters at the Konstantinovsky Palace in St Petersburg. This is the...

17.09.2024 4

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Turkey's real plans: long-awaited BRICS entry or probing the ground?

In the world of big politics, Turkey is used to diplomatic manoeuvring and opportunistic changes. Now it is trying to take its place in a...

12.09.2024 5

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Is Iran blocking the Zangezur Corridor project?

The idea of the « Zangezur Corridor » was formally consolidated in the trilateral online statement of November 9, 2020, and subsequent declarations...

09.09.2024 5

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History warns: what does the declassification of archives of anti-Soviet plans of Britain, France and Türkiye in the early period of World War II show?

At the end of August, Russian and foreign media published some declassified materials from the archives of Russia about the subversive plans of...

04.09.2024 30

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Syria and Turkey have re-established relations. But everything that is happening is just an imitation that Syria refuses to take part in

This summer, with the help of Russia, Iran and Iraq, relations between Syria and Turkey were restored. This event became the subject of current...

31.08.2024 2

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The Syrian issue in Turkish-American relations

Turkey is particularly concerned about the ongoing simmering conflicts near its borders, where the Kurdish issue poses a key security threat to...

25.08.2024 4

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Israel has set itself a new goal - a major regional war

According to recent reports, Israel, under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu, is doing everything in its power to prevent the cessation of...

21.08.2024 3

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Turkey is making threats, but won’t actually fight against Israel

Turkish leader Recep Erdogan is condemning Israel for the military conflict in the Gaza Strip – perhaps more than all other leaders of the Islamic...

15.08.2024 4

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The idea of a ‘gas hub’ and the Zangezur corridor

International transport corridors (ITCs) are gaining independent geo-economic importance, where the transit of goods and passengers guarantees a...

12.08.2024 10

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The Middle East on the brink of a new conflict

The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas is not finding a political solution, but is entering a new round of tension that threatens to turn into a...

08.08.2024 4

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Turkish revanchism and the role of the UK

With the support of the United Kingdom, Turkey is actively developing a revanchist policy within the framework of the doctrines of non-pan-Turanism...

03.08.2024 1

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NATO’s new eastward expansion strategy

NATO is developing a strategy of eastward expansion via new structural tactics, i.e. forming two continental military alliances in Europe and Asia...

29.07.2024 3

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian outlines his foreign policy

The helicopter crash that resulted in the death of the eighth President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, and the early elections of the ninth President,...

24.07.2024 4

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Interference in domestic affairs remains the number one method of USA’s regional diplomacy

The internal political crisis in Iraq is the result of its occupation in 2003 by the United States and Great Britain. Washington is first reducing...

20.07.2024 2

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Middle East: will Kurdistan follow suit after Palestine?

The deepening Middle Eastern crisis and new conflicts may lead to a transformation of the political map of the region. Will Palestine become a new...

16.07.2024 2

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Russia, Turkey, Iran – regional partnership or rivalry?

Usually, geographical neighbours must find ‘common ground’. However, history shows that geography does not always bring neighbours closer...

13.07.2024 2

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