Access to YouTube has been cut off in Turkey after an explosive leak of audiotapes that appeared to show ministers talking about provoking military intervention in Syria. Other social media have already been…
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The corruption’s scandal that has deeply wounded the Islamic government of Prime- Minister of Turkey, Tayip Erdogan, is a complex issue with important consequences to the politics, economy, society and the foreign policy. Turkey has…
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was elected last year with a strong mandate, has assumed the responsibility of reforming his country’s sagging economy and in the process he has determined to harken back to…
The U.N. records show that Turkey has sent varying amounts of guns to the Syria militants over the past few months. Turkey has transferred more than 47 tons of arsenals to Syria to help…
Claims made in a US army report relating to sarin use in Syria appear to have irritated Turkish PM Erdoğan, who is supporting pro-Islamist organizations such as al-Nusra and al-Qaeda. Former intelligence officer and one of the…
On Friday morning, the AKP government of Turkey´s Prime Minister R. Tayyip Erdogan ordered Turkey´s police to begin a crackdown on Turkey´s opposition, resulting in numerous arrests of prominent opposition members and journalists. Roadblocks have been…
Prime Minister Erdogan and his AK Party government have a track record of being deceitful, especially in regards to both Israel and Syria. No one should be surprised to hear that Israel and Turkey are collaborating together against the Syrians. With the aim of tightening the front against Syria, President Obama even travelled to Israel in March 2013 to directly broker a quick rapprochement between the governments of Israel and Turkey. Getting a public nudge from the Obama Administration, Israel and Turkey would announce that their diplomatic row was over only two days after NATO announced it had put together contingency plans for operations in Syria on March 20, 2013. Even when relations were publicly sour between Ankara and Tel Aviv, the two countries maintained military and commercial ties.
Tikun Olam This story keeps getting weirder and more interesting: RT (formerly Russia Today) reports based on a “reliable source” that Turkey allowed Israeli air-force jet bombers to use one of its military bases to attack the…
Observers of Middle East politics have often said allegiances in the region shift as fast as the desert sands. And nothing substantiates that metaphor as much as the relationship between Israel and Turkey that went from warm…
Recently, in Assad’s Best Friend Attacks Syria, I claimed that Syria and Israel had been fruitfully collaborating for a generation. Two readers sent me emails claiming that I have a rich imagination. Yet, this is…