India counters Turkey
In February 2023, when Turkey and Syria faced a devastating earthquake, which killed almost 52,000 people, India was amongst the first countries to respond.
In February 2023, when Turkey and Syria faced a devastating earthquake, which killed almost 52,000 people, India was amongst the first countries to respond.
Operation Sindoor was fought as much through propaganda and misinformation as it was through military action across the border.
Washington is evaluating another round of direct talks with Tehran, with possible venues and timelines under review as both sides keep diplomatic channels active amid ceasefire pressure.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday said Israel views Syria as a space for regional expansion, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet is seeking to strengthen its influence in the Middle East by continuing the war in Gaza through various means.
Pope Leo XIV’s first foreign trip was never going to be a routine pastoral visit. The geographies he chose, Turkey and Lebanon, are not only symbolic crossroads of faiths but also corridors of conflict where diplomacy, identity and history constantly collide.
According to data cited by Abdullah Bozkurt, who runs the Nordic Research Monitoring Network, during the legislative session of October 2021 to September 2022, not a single one of the 716 draft bills that were submitted by the opposition were discussed in the Parliament. This must be something of a world record.
The West looked on in consternation. Mr Erdogan won at least in part, writes Asli Aydintasbas in the Washington Post, because he had convinced more than half of Turkey’s voters that a non-aligned, selfreliant Turkey
The 69-year-old leader will be responsible for managing an economic crisis that has seen runaway inflation and the collapse of the currency.
China’s geopolitical and geoeconomic interests have acquired a global dimension and are no longer limited to its extended neighbourhood.
The nation just held a crucial election that could not only determine whether Turkey would follow the secular route established by Atatürk or diligently adopt “NeoOttomanism,” a term which is becoming more and more common to describe the ideologies of Erdogan’s AKP party.
