Rival factions in Libya’s civil war both claim that Russia has transferred six MiG-29 fighters and two Su-24 attack jets to Al Jufra airbase in central Libya to support the Benghazi-based Libyan National Army (LNA) faction led ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on May 12 asked the central executive committee of his Justice and Development Party to speed up plans for the government to take over a 28 percent stake in Isbank, the country’s ...
Before Russiagate, the former national security advisor was an operative for Turkey, tilting foreign policy against the Kurds. Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is best known for his connection to the Russiagate investigation. Lost ...
As most readers will be aware, victims of the Syrian conflict have scant opportunities for justice. Russia has vetoed a French-led effort to refer the situation to the International Criminal Court (ICC), so instead, there ...
Image credit: Axios/Aïda Amer. Axios has obtained a Chinese government request sent to the Turkish government for a Uighur man who fled Xinjiang amid worsening repression. Why it matters: Uighurs living outside China have long suspected that Beijing ...
European countries should try to revive the political approach to resolving the Libya conflict, particularly given that Turkey may want to do so from its current position of strength. Libya doesn’t do incremental change, it ...
Turkey secured a tripling of its currency-swap agreement with Qatar to $15 billion, the central bank said on Wednesday, providing some much-needed foreign funding to reinforce its depleted reserves and help steady the Turkish lira. ...
A man has been detained in Turkey for hanging a towel emblazoned with the UK’s union jack on his balcony. Locals in the central Kayseri province reported the man to police on Tuesday after the ...
Fethullah Gülen (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/EFE) A major controversy erupted in Turkey last week after a pro-Erdogan Turkish Islamist magazine “Gercek Hayat” (Real Life) claimed that the controversial Turkish Imam Fethullah Gulen had written a letter ...
As I write this article, I look back at my conservative upbringing and how my views of Kurdish citizens until my college years were based on a set of prejudices the ruling authority had imposed ...