A new central bank governor and finance minister won’t mean anything as long as the president is enforcing his destructive policies Source: https://www.haaretz.com
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The campaign by the leaders of Pakistan and Turkey against blasphemy and free speech in France, aided by their cynical abuse of the Holocaust, is…
Pakistan and Turkey’s campaign against free speech in France, aided by a cynical abuse of the Holocaust, is duplicitous in the extreme. With extremist Muslim…
Israel has a lot at stake in the eastern Mediterranean. Would Biden deal with Ankara’s aggression differently from Trump? Can Israel rely on him –…
Thanks to the Gulf, Israel no longer needs its oil-for-arms alliance with a Baku in bed with Erdogan’s ultranationalist military adventurism. For moral and strategic…
The real problem Erdogan has with the UAE and Bahrain’s normalization deals with Israel is how little Turkey now matters Source: https://www.haaretz.com
The real problem Erdogan has with the UAE and Bahrain’s normalization deals with Israel is how little Turkey now matters Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Faced with economic shambles, a static political base and brewing conflict in the Mediterranean, Erdogan is investing in propaganda videos that glorify his ‘New Turkey’…
Economic shambles, a static political base, brewing conflict in the Mediterranean? According to Erdogan’s alarming new propaganda video, the ‘New Turkey’ has the answers: the…
Faced with a determined anti-Turkey alliance in the Mediterranean and beyond, and economic shambles, Erdogan’s grandiose, belligerent ambitions are struggling. But Ankara will double down,…
Boosted by binge viewing during India’s coronavirus lockdown, two international TV series have won fanatic fans. Behind the small screen is a geopolitical drama starring…
‘Hagia Sofia first, then Al-Aqsa’: Erdogan’s decree is a personal ideological triumph that won him global Islamist plaudits and muted international backlash. But it could…
The Turkish president is writing the playbook for how to reframe a disastrous coronavirus death toll as a glorious success for the supreme leader Source:…
Israel joins an unsavory club of states led by hard right government weaponizing coronavirus fears to target political enemies and settle old scores Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Erdogan is cracking down on ‘provocative’ and ‘unfounded’ social media posts on the coronavirus. Will he halt pro-government channels spreading conspiracy theories blaming the outbreak…
From Syria to Libya to Palestine, Erdogan is staking Turkey’s claim to be a power player in the Middle East – by turning unmitigated losses…
Ankara does not have the resources to back up its ambitions and is risking further international isolation by involving itself in the Libyan civil war …
Almost nobody noticed when Turkey chased an Israeli ship out of Cypriot waters two weeks ago, but it indicates how Erdogan is trying to force…
Trump cuts funding, Macron calls it ‘brain-dead.’ But neither are NATO’s most pressing challenge from inside the alliance. NATO needs to show Turkey tough love…
Kurds who were in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria during Turkey’s military operation in October belie Ankara’s claims that it’s only fighting…