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In our latest issue of Turkeyscope, Oğul Tuna discusses the changing role of Turkey in Central Asia in recent years. This essay argues that ethnolinguistic links have helped improve relations since the collapse of the Soviet Union, but each Central Asian state has its own calculations that factor into separate diplomatic, cultural, and defense deals with Turkey.

Turkey eyeing for new sphere of influence in Afghanistan July 26, 2021 Afghanistan is all set for a new geopolitical game and is bracing for the advent of a new player, Turkey with the latters grand potential ambitions and practices in West Asia. Turkey has taken upon the task to secure Kabul Airport with the explicit backing of America despite the strong opposition of Taliban. While Ankara wants to secure Kabul Airport, behind this move there is an agenda: It seeks to create a new role for i...

Turkey eyeing new sphere of influence in Afghanistan July 26, 2021 Afghanistan is all set for a new geopolitical game and is bracing for the advent of a new player, Turkey with the latters grand potential ambitions and practices in West Asia. Turkey has taken upon the task to secure Kabul Airport with the explicit backing of America despite the strong opposition of Taliban. While Ankara wants to secure Kabul Airport, behind this move there is an agenda: It seeks to create a new role for its s...

May 20, 2021 Reports by the European Parliament (EP) that decry a lack of progress on Turkey’s human rights are hardly a novelty since the European Union’s only directly elected body undertook the task of penning annual “progress reports" on Turkey in the 1990s. Neither are Ankara’s claims that the report is biased and unfair, the “toughest report ever." Yet this years report, penned by Spanish Socialist Nacho Sanchez Amor, has ventured where no EP report has gone before: It su...

Swiss voters have accepted a far-right proposal to ban facial coverings as they took to the polls on Sunday (7 March) in a binding referendum viewed as a test of attitudes toward Muslims, writes Michael Shields. The proposal under the Swiss system of direct democracy does not mention Islam directly and also aims to stop […]

By facilitating a rapprochement between Cairo and Ankara, European governments could make progress towards their strategic objective of stabilising the Middle East and North Africa

The line “some of my best friends are Jews” used to be the signal that one was dealing with an... In contrast to Trump, who in 2016 called NATO “obsolete,” the new US president will underline the alliance’s important role in global affairs. This means NATO will be in a more robust position against the various threats emanating from Russia. Biden has called Russia both an “opponent” and a “threat.” In early 2020, he wrote that “to counter Russian aggression, we must keep the ...