The list of Turkish actions in its neighbourhood that have caused antipathy amongst others in that neighbourhood, and beyond, is long. Egypt, Syria,…
Bill Park, Visiting
Research fellow, King’s College, London
Turkey has been far from alone in involving itself in what has turned into a largely…
On 2 January 2020
Turkey’s parliament gave a green light to the Turkish government’s proposed
military assistance to the Tripoli-based Libyan Government of National Accord
(GNA),…
Events have moved swiftly since the Turkey-led Operation Spring Peace incursion into northern Syria in early October. The operation’s objective is to clear…
After month of preparation and repeated threats, on the 9th of October the Turkish military and its so-called Syrian National Army (SNA) allies,…
With
the confirmation in 2010 of the existence of substantial reserves of natural
gas off Israel’s coastline in the eastern Mediterranean, followed by finds off
Cyprus…
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In early January 2019 Libyan
authorities seized a container carrying Turkish arms from a ship docking in the
port of…
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As this piece was being penned, speculation was ongoing surrounding Turkey’s proposed 32 kilometre ‘safe zone’ on Syrian territory east…
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[dropcap size=big]O[/dropcap]n 12 December Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkish forces would within days launch an offensive aimed at…
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[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]s this piece was being penned, Turkey, Iran and Russia were winding up their eleventh high level meeting on Syria…
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[dropcap size=big]H[/dropcap]ow much disagreement, tension and even mutual hostility can an alliance relationship take? Having failed to release the evangelical American…
The vote and some counter-factuals
With 52.6% of the vote, on 24 June President Erdogan was re-elected without needing a second round run-off. His…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]urkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s three-day visit to London in mid-May was billed by the British prime minister’s office as ‘an opportunity…
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The AKP’s false dawn
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, or AKP) government that came to power in…
[dropcap size=big]F[/dropcap]ew were surprised that the independence referendum held in the Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRI) on 25 September 2017 produced a 93%…