Erdogan’s insistence on delivery of the Russian-made missiles, a $2.5 billion waste of money, has invited severe U.S. retaliation – and turned Turkey from an…
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Resentment towards the half-million Syrian refugees in Istanbul, fueled by Turkey’s economic crisis and populist political rhetoric, is metastasizing into a general hostility toward all…
Erdogan fired his central banker and Trump is bending his to his will. Israel is safe for now, but only because Netanyahu is preoccupied with…
Erdogan lost Istanbul. Now he’ll use all his power to bring down Turkey’s newly confident opposition
Having realized he couldn’t nix and fix the Istanbul vote again, the opposition ‘Brand Imamoglu’ is becoming a critical threat to a newly vulnerable Turkish…
The Turkish pro-democracy opposition desperately needs to defeat Erdogan. But not by building up their candidate, Ekrem Imamoglu, as an infallible ‘savior’ Source: https://www.haaretz.com
The anti-Erdogan opposition needs to win big time to avoid another disqualification. But it’s facing the full wrath and intimidation of the AKP’s machine, and…
By cancelling the Istanbul elections, Erdogan has annulled a core tenet of democracy in Turkey. But it’s not an act of power: it’s an act…
The only reason the whole east Mediterranean is working with Egypt, not Turkey, is Erdogan’s bloody-mindedness and penchant for making enemies Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Ankara’s forces – riven by infighting, jihadist proxies and post-coup purges – will always prioritize fighting anti-ISIS Kurdish forces, and not Islamic State itself. America…
Erdogan has good reason to invest in Indian Muslims: their support would boost his bid for leadership of the Muslim world. And as India’s Hindu…