Category: Commentary
Last week’s overwhelming vote by the House of Representatives in favor of a resolution condemning the genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923 represented a breakthrough. Hard as it may be ...
Next month’s NATO summit will be a tense gathering, perhaps one of the most tense since the organization’s founding at the end of the Second World War. European members are likely to demand answers for ...
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Reuters Did Turkey really cooperate with the US army during the daring operation that led to the death of ISIS-leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and why is Turkey now suddenly ...
Even before its recent invasion of Northeast Syria, Turkey was attempting to force Syrians home. Gareth Chantler looks at how such efforts fit into international refugee law. The world has been watching the Turkish-Syrian border ...
In the spring of 2011 when Syrians first took to the streets to demonstrate their grievances against the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the secular opposition in Turkey had just turned to infighting and ...
Key Point: You can’t fly fighter jets if you have no pilots. Fighter pilots aren’t cheap. The U.S. Air Force estimates that training a new pilot to fly a plane like the F-35 costs $11 million. ...
A little more than three years ago, a small faction within the Turkish military attempted to overthrow the government. The coup would fizzle out by morning, after claiming more than 200 lives, but that wasn’t certain ...
US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) arrives to a closed session before the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight committees October 22, 2019 in Washington, DC. Alex Wroblewski / Getty Ilhan Omar is one of the ...
The collusion of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani with the Turkish government made headlines in the past week.It is alleged that not only did Giuliani pressure Ukraine to investigate Trump’s political rivals, but ...
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Trump’s decision to abandon Kurdish allies in Syria wasn’t the first time their invisible nation’s dreams of independence have been dashed – and they’re worried it won’t be the last. Mark MacKinnon returns to Kurdish ...