Posts Tagged: Turkey Syria
Turkey Says It Will Intervene Against Any Attempt to Divide Syria
Turkey will directly intervene to stop any attempt to fragment Syria and will prevent any attempts by militants to obtain autonomy after clashes in southern Syria, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Tuesday. His warning against fragmentation, in comments...
Turkey Backing Syria’s Military and Has No Immediate Withdrawal Plans, Defense Minister Says
Turkey is training and advising Syria's armed forces and helping improve its defenses, and has no immediate plans for the withdrawal or relocation of its troops stationed there, Defense Minister Yasar Guler told Reuters. Turkey has emerged as...
Turkey, Israel Have Begun Talks to Avoid Clashes in Syria, Sources Say
Turkish and Israeli officials began talks on Wednesday aimed at preventing unwanted incidents in Syria, where militaries of the two regional powers are active, Turkish ministry sources and an Israeli political source...
New York Times Stokes New Fear About Israeli ‘Occupation’ — of Syria
The New York Times recently published an elaborate "interactive" article critical of Israel for becoming involved in Syria. "Israel has built a growing network of outposts...
Israel Steps Up Syria Strikes, Says Turkey Aims for ‘Protectorate’
Israel stepped up airstrikes on Syria overnight, declaring the attacks a warning to the new Islamist rulers in Damascus as it accused their Turkish allies on Thursday of trying to turn...
How Turkey Is Manipulating Syria for Its Own Advantage
Following the recent regime change in Syria, Israel now faces a complex reality in which it must prevent the flow of advanced weapons to hostile...
If Israel Hesitates, It Could Lose Some Benefits of Working with a New, Post-Assad Syria on Energy
The collapse of the Assad regime in December 2024 revived several Turkish-led energy infrastructure projects that had been abandoned due to the Syrian civil war....
Why Erdogan’s Turkish Empire Is an Emerging Threat
The world was once a series of empires. The British Empire, at its peak in 1922, covered about a quarter of the Earth's land and...
The Fall of Assad: A Tectonic Shift in the Middle East
The collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria has sent shockwaves across the Middle East, with experts suggesting it has dismantled Iran's "ring of fire"...
Turkish Attempt to Reconcile with Assad in Syria: Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat
At first glance, there is little that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an Islamist and nationalist, has in common with Dogu Perincek, a maverick socialist,...
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...
The Stunted Growth of the Emerging Islamic Bloc
There are strong historic, ethnic, and religious ties linking three geostrategically located Muslim countries under the umbrella of an emerging strategic alliance, with the potential...
Turkey’s Democracy Is Wasting Away
Turkey’s Islamist leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has not lost a single election, be it presidential, parliamentary, municipal, or referendum, since he came to power...
Erdogan’s ‘Please Sanction Me’ Challenge
Due largely to a blend of over-ambitious policy objectives, an assertive neo-Ottomanism, a newfound hard power as a means to augment soft power, and colossal...
