Category: Commentary

Turkey’s mercurial president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is in political difficulty before elections next year, with his economy imploding, a central bank nearly out of foreign exchange and volcanic inflation running at about 80 percent annually. ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Aug. 5 meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin appears to have turned a page in Ankara’s chilly ties with Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Muslim-majority Chechen Republic and ...

Hard-line Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was sworn into office in early August last year after the Guardian Council disqualified many candidates from standing in the preceding presidential election in order to secure his victory. After ...