International Relations

Turkey sees promise in pivoting north

Mon, 07/01/2013 - 09:05
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Sun, 06/01/2013

Turkey sees promise in pivoting north

Christian Science Monitor, 6 January 2013

Its protracted bid to join the European Union remains stalled and its "zero problems" policy in theMiddle East is cracking over support for Syria's opposition. But one foreign policy front retains promise for Turkey: the Black Sea.

Once the Great Hope of the Middle East, Turkey Is Weak and Unstable

Wed, 03/08/2016 - 07:31
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Wed, 03/08/2016


PATRICK COCKBURN
Coup attempt and purge are tearing Turkey apart. The Turkish armed forces, for long the backbone of the state, are in a state of turmoil. Some 40 per cent of its generals and admirals have been detained or dismissed, including senior army commanders.

Why Iran stood with Erdogan

Wed, 20/07/2016 - 07:49
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Wed, 20/07/2016

 

Author Ali Hashem

As July 15 was coming to an end in Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was on the phone with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, whose government was under the threat of being overthrown by a military coup. Meanwhile, Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), was on another line with security officials in Ankara.

 

Putin May Be Turkey's New Buddy after the Failed Coup

Wed, 20/07/2016 - 07:45
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Wed, 20/07/2016

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Vladimir Putin. Kremlin.ru

Erdoğan is set to turn to Russia.
Nikolas K. Gvosdev
As we continue to sort through the aftermath of the failed attempt at a military coup against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, one unexpected (and potentially unwelcome, from a U.S. standpoint) development is that this botched attempt to remove Erdoğan will further the reconciliation process between the Turkish leader and Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Good news: The world is waiting for Turkish leadership

Fri, 15/07/2016 - 07:50
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Fri, 15/07/2016

BURAK BEKDİL

The anecdote, mentioned previously in this column, dates back to more than half a century ago, but it explains some of Turkey’s policy failures today. When, in the late 1950s, Kemal Nejat Kavur was serving as the Turkish ambassador to Moscow, Andrei Gromyko, the then Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, asked him: “Your Excellency, your country has the highest number of men under arms in Europe. If you turned them against your traditional enemies, the Greeks, they would be too much for them. But if you turned them against us, it would be too small. What’s the reason for this?”

Russia's Regional Master Plan Stretches from Turkey to Indonesia

Fri, 15/07/2016 - 07:28
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Fri, 15/07/2016

President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev​. Kremlin.ru

By Nikolay Pakhomov
Seeing Eurasia as a whole has been to Moscow’s benefit.
The political earthquake of the Brexit referendum has already changed international relations in many ways. While the majority of experts in the United States dwelled on the parallels between the anger of British and American voters and the possible negative consequences for the global economy, only a few considered the referendum’s implications for American foreign policy, naming, as an example, a possible end to the American “pivot” towards Asia.

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