Posts Tagged: Turkey Russia
Double Standards Haunt US and Europe in NATO Dispute with Turkey
US and European acquiescence in Turkey's long-standing refusal to honor Kurdish ethnic, cultural, and political rights has come home to roost with Turkish opposition to...
How to Stop Turkey From Holding NATO Hostage
NATO’s spat over Turkish opposition to Swedish and Finnish membership is about more than expanding the North Atlantic military alliance. It's as much about Turkish...
Turkey Is Playing a Dangerous Game With NATO
Amid speculation about a reduced US military commitment to security in the Middle East, Turkey has spotlighted the region's ability to act as a disruptive...
Erdogan Says Turkey Is Looking at Further Defense Steps With Russia
Turkey is considering more joint defense industry steps with Russia including for fighter jets and submarines, President Tayyip Erdogan said after talks with President Vladimir Putin, despite a US warning of further sanctions. On the...
How Turkey Bypasses Western Arms Embargoes
In a landmark $1.5 billion deal in 2018, Turkey agreed to sell 30 of its T129 attack helicopters (allegedly indigenous but in fact produced under an...
Turkey, Russia, and the Middle East
It is often claimed that Turkey made a definitive break with the West in 2003 when the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power....
As Turkey Is Flooded With State-Sponsored Fake News, Confusion Abounds on America
In 2018, the Turkish police began to raid onion wholesalers on suspicion that they were artificially raising onion prices and trying to “illegally overthrow” the...
What Erdogan’s ‘Election’ Will Mean for Turkey — and the World
The re-election of Turkey’s President Erdogan -- falsely considered to be free, fair, and representative of the will of the majority of the Turkish population -- has dire implications,...
