After months of escalating tension between Turkey and France, Turkish President Recep Erdogan is seemingly willing to pursue a truce with French leader Emmanuel Macron. The latest developments in Eastern Mediterranean and Libya alongside the unprecedented downturn in the Turkish...
If Turkish President Recep Tayypip Erdogan is conservative and authoritarian, Canan Kaftancioglu is his polar opposite. A recent Foreign Policy report profiled the Istanbul district head for the Republican People’s Party (CHP). Her staunchly liberal views include a pro-LGBTQ stance...
The Eastern Mediterranean crisis between Turkey and Greece is putting a strain on relations between the entire EU and Turkey. Saber Rattling Intensifies Saber rattling is intensifying on both sides. Warships have already been deployed and Turkey has openly threatened...
The dangerous waters of the eastern Mediterranean have once again brought Turkey under the spotlight. The succession of events in the quadrant stretching from the Aegean to the seas around Cyprus is still looking murky. The Current Situation in the...
Turkey is one of the countries that benefited the most from Ukraine’s Euromaidan. Since 2014 it has been working hard on turning a geopolitically ambitious and groundbreaking goal into reality: to make Ukraine part of the Eurasia-extended Turkish world. The...
As the Greek, Cypriot and Turkish dispute on the status of the islands and the maritime boundaries among the three countries continues, EU Foreign Ministers held a Gymnich meeting on Friday August 28 to discuss possible sanctions against Turkey. The...
A recent discovery of significant natural gas reserves within the Turkish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Black Sea was the main topic of Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s speech on August 21. During a televised press conference from the Presidential...
On August 6, Greece and Egypt signed an historical deal in an unexpected move, demarcating their maritime boundaries, and essentially declaring their respective Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ). Several geopolitical factors across the Eastern Mediterranean and the Libyan front have contributed...
Aware of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ambitions in both Libya and the Middle East, Egypt and its partners have supposedly stepped up their effort to thwart Turkey on the diplomatic front and in Syria and Iraq. Although the Egyptian...
On July 21, 2020 Antalya NAVTEX (Navigational Text Message) Station issued a Navigational Warning, effective between July 21 and August 2 for seismic survey being done by R/V ORUÇ REİS, ATAMAN and CENGİZ. The survey encompasses a wide area offshore...
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