Posts Tagged: Turkey
UAE Official Says Time to Manage Rivalry With Iran and Turkey
The United Arab Emirates is trying to manage long-running rivalries with Iran and Turkey through dialogue to avoid any new confrontations in the region as...
Greece Completes Border Wall Extension to Deter Potential Afghan Migrants
Greece said on Friday it had completed a 40-km fence on its border with Turkey and a new surveillance system was in place to stop...
Mideast Powers Vie to Shape the Next Generation of Muslims
JNS.org - Reports published earlier this year by the Israel-based Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE) chart a notable divergence...
Greece Battles Wildfires for Fifth Day in ‘Nightmarish Summer’
Flames swept through a town near Athens overnight and hundreds of people were evacuated by ferry from the island of Evia east of the capital...
Turkey Goes After Israel and Its Allies in the Eastern Mediterranean
Turkey’s new policy vis-à-vis Cyprus, based on a two-state solution, is being heavily criticized by the international community. In a press statement, US Secretary of...
Turkey’s Erdogan Uses War to Deflect His Domestic Failures
The article “Give War a Chance: Arab Leaders Finesse Military Defeat,” by Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum, and published in the Summer...
Turkish Wildfire Leaves Charred Home and Ashes, as Blazes Continue
Days after a raging wildfire in southern Turkey drove his family from the home they lived in for four decades, Mehmet Demir returned on Saturday...
Libya PM Unaware of Russia, Turkey Deal on Foreign Fighters
Libya's unity government Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah said on Friday he was unaware of any understanding between Russia and Turkey on a withdrawal of their...
US Strikes Deal with Russia to Continue UN Syria Aid Access
The UN Security Council on Friday extended a cross-border aid operation into Syria from Turkey after Russia agreed to a compromise in last-minute talks with...
Arab Countries Pledge Aid as Tunisia Struggles With COVID Pandemic
Several countries promised to help Tunisia fight the coronavirus on Friday as the north African country recorded its highest daily death toll since the pandemic...
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...
American Scholars Feature Prominently in Palestinian Terrorist’s Conference
An recent online conference in Turkey featured anti-Israel scholars from prominent American universities. The fact that the conference was hosted by an organization led by...
Turkey’s Problems Grow in the Eastern Mediterranean
Yet another Turkish diplomatic embarrassment has been caused by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s self-aggrandizement. Turkey’s neo-Ottoman strongman would topple Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and replace him...
Turkish Govt Sponsors ‘Conference on Palestine’ Hosted by Activist Convicted by US Court of Aiding Terror Group
The Turkish government is co-sponsoring a conference initiated and hosted by Sami Al-Arian, who was convicted by a United States federal court for his active...
