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Turkey fears another exodus of Syrian refugees as Damascus, backed by Russia, is ramping up attacks against Idlib, the last Syrian rebel enclave. A Turkish military force stands in the way of Syrian…
The end of Turkey’s ‘precious loneliness’ may be on the horizon Sinem Cengiz Turkish Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin. (Getty Images) Short Url https://arab.news/zq6k4 In 2013, Ibrahim Kalin, who was chief foreign policy adviser to then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the time and is today’s presidential spokesperson, introduced the term “precious loneliness” to international relations literature in a bid to justify the state of Turkey’s Middle East policy, which was very much criticized in those days. In a tweet, he said: “The claim of Turkey’s loneliness in the ...
Amid an already frosty start with the new US administration, Ankara has renewed accusations that Washington was behind the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey.
The new sanctions follow Turkey’s controversial purchase and testing of the Russian S-400 missile system. “Despite our warnings, Turkey moved ahead with its purchase and testing of the S-400 system from Russia. Today’s sanctions on Turkey demonstrates the US will fully implement CAATSA. We will not tolerate significant transactions with Russia’s defense sector,” outgoing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. The decision was announced as part of the Countering America’s Adversaries through Sanctions Act. It includes a ban on all US export licenses and authorizations to Turkey’...