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Retired Turkish Admiral Cihat Yaycı of the well-known institute he directs has raised the supposed issue of Samothrace, citing the allegedly illegal existence
Ever since Turkey accused its neighbor, Greece, of locking onto Turkish fighter jets with its Russian-made S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems deployed on the island of Crete and placing Turkish aircraft under a radar lock over the eastern Mediterranean during a NATO mission in August 2022, tensions between the two treaty allies have escalated. Indeed, the two countries have come close to war several times in the past, with Turkey’s president issuing a thinly veiled threat and Athens responding with readiness to defend Greece’s sovereignty.
ANKARA: Following Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ address to the US Congress last month, long-running tensions between Turkey and Greece are flaring up again. As both countries simultaneously face an economic downturn with severe inflation, and as they near their election terms in 2023, experts say that tension between them is being increasingly used for domestic
As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan watches Russian forces flounder in Ukraine, he may be rethinking his own ambitions — or concluding that Turkey is in a better spot than ever.
Convicted crime boss Sedat Peker‘s claims of corruption at the heart of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government may affirm the suspicions of many, but are unlikely to galvanise the opposition, according to Ryan Gingeras, author of “Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey”.