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 …
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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…
The Trump-Erdogan love-in at the White House was deeply unedifying – and disturbing. The U.S. president has became the authoritarian Erdogan’s sock puppet, begging the…
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Trump’s abrupt Syria withdrawal has triggered hysterical headlines. But for America’s enemies, it isn’t such a wonderful gift Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Somehow the Istanbul Stock Exchange doesn’t seem to be asking how their fearless leader plans to extract economic prosperity from occupied territory Source: https://www.haaretz.com
The international community must choose: Enforce a no-fly zone over northern Syria – or join Trump’s cowardly betrayal of the Kurds, and his appeasement of…
What Turkey’s president is openly planning is the forced exchange of one ethnic population for another. That’s Ethnic Cleansing 101. And Trump rolled over to…
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…
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 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…
By applauding Trump gifting northern Syria to a theocratic, tyrannical Erdogan, fatuous self-styled ‘anti-imperialists’ are complicit in the torture, abductions, killings and ethnic cleansing of…