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Turkey’s Growing Central Asian Influence Is an Opportunity for Joe Biden The role America hoped Turkey would have played in Central Asia after the fall of the Soviet Union is slowly becoming a reality. As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan proudly watches his country’s premier drone, the Baykar TB2, on full display at a victory parade in Baku with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, talk of Azerbaijan’s accomplishment echoes in Central Asia in a common Turkic tongue. After thirt...

Posted on February 26, 2021. While Turkey mourned its 13 fallen soldiers in Gara, the United States’ first statement about the incident was incredibly arrogant.* The U.S. announced it would issue a condemnation only if it could first verify that those who carried out the attack were members of the PKK terrorist organization. The American ambassador was then summoned by the Turkish Foreign Ministry to receive Turkey’s response. Afterward, the Turkish foreign minister and U.S. secretary of st...

Prime Minister Dbeibah expresses gratitude for President Putin’s support during key talks in Moscow Updated 55 min 27 sec ago AFP AP April 17, 2021 01:01 MOSCOW: Russia has welcomed the prospect of renewed military cooperation with war-shattered Libya as Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu hosted Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah. Libya has been gripped by chaos for almost a decade, since its leader Muammar Qaddafi was brought down and killed in a 2011 uprising. In February, Libya embarked on a...

Turkey on tenterhooks for Biden’s decision on Armenian genocide recognition Acknowledgment of 1915-1923 mass killing of Christian Armenians by Ottoman Turks would be the first by a US president Decision would be a setback for Turkish President Erdogan at a time of continuing friction in US-Turkey relations Updated 24 March 2021 March 23, 2021 22:29 DUBAI: The Biden administration is considering acknowledging the genocide of ethnic Armenians by the Ottoman Empire, Ian Bremner of GZero Media h...

Israeli Settlements Obstacle to Normalized Ties, Turkey Says Bloomberg 1/18/2021 © Bloomberg Mevlut Cavusoglu (Bloomberg) -- Israel should forfeit its designs on land the Palestinians claim for a state if it wants to normalize ties with Turkey, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Monday, damping expectations that Ankara’s foreign-policy rethink will include mended ties with its former ally. “If Israel gives up its activities and aggression, such as illegal settlements or annexation,...

Text Size: A+ Back in 2005 — a long, long time ago — the US denied then-Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi a visa because of his alleged role in the 2002 riots, in which about a 1,000 people, according to official estimates, were killed. Much water has since flowed under the bridge, with Prime Minister Modi being very warmly hosted by both Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and hosting them in turn, in 2016 and 2019 – whatever Obama may say about the BJP’s “divisive nationali...

Back in 2005 – a long, long time ago — the US denied then-Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi a visa because of his alleged role in the 2002 riots, in which about a 1,000 people, according to official estimates, were killed. Much water has since flowed under the bridge, with Prime Minister Modi being very warmly hosted by both Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and hosting them in turn, in 2016 and 2019 – whatever Obama may say about the BJP’s...

 December 24, 2020: The West Bank Fatah government calls for war against Israel still produces a lot of attacks in the West bank. In the last year there have been nearly 600 rock throwing incidents, 90 stabbing attempts and twenty firebomb attacks. Fatah, the political party that has ruled all Palestinians until 2007 (when Hamas gained control of Gaza), and the West Bank since the 1990s, openly calls for the destruction of Israel. Hamas won the last...

Turkeys Future Will Rely Neither on Russia Nor the West Turkey doesn’t necessarily view its future as a binary choice between the West and Russia. For Ankara, this likely represents a false choice between two options that would likely constrain rather than enable its ambitions. Recent analysis of Turkey’s foreign policy tends to focus on several complementary narratives. Ankara is seen to be slowly moving away from its NATO partners and towards Russia. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdog...

Recent analysis of Turkey’s foreign policy tends to focus on several complementary narratives. Ankara is seen to be slowly moving away from its NATO partners and towards Russia. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to be pursuing a strategy of balancing the West and Moscow against each other, but this balancing act is viewed as likely to fail, leaving Turkey without friends or allies. In response, the EU and the US are perceived as needing to maintain an equilibrium by reining in a ...