Once regarded as a beacon of modernity and Westernization, Turkey has long been the closest Muslim ally of the United States in the Middle East. This cooperation spanned not only defense and economic partnership, but also translated into positive sentiment...
The relationship between the United States and Turkey remains tense. After the Senate, by an overwhelming majority, declared Turkey’s behavior towards the Armenians to be genocide and also threatened to impose sanctions on Turkey, it seems to have deteriorated even...
Since the end of the Cold War and the USSR dissolution, we have witnessed the transformation of a bipolar global system to a US-dominated unipolar New World Order. Undoubtedly balances have critically shifted since the early 1990s and the US...
Recent footage of a military exercise by a pro-Turkish militia (National Liberation Front) who established a shooting range against the archaeological hill of Ain Dara in the occupied Afrin province invaded and controlled by Turkish forces and their proxy militias...
According to the activists who have been fighting since years to stop the construction, the environmental impact of the Ilisu dam, in Turkey, will be huge, but it is difficult to understand how much exactly because of the Turkish legislation. What is sure, however is that the building of the dam it will threaten hundreds of animal and vegetal species.
With the Ilisu dam on the Tigris, Turkey can stop the water flow towards the bordering countries and use the river as a leverage. However this is not the only objective of the Turkish government. The dam, will also be a barrier against the historic enemy of the Turkish State: the Pkk
The Turkish strategy in the Eastern Mediterranean highlighted that Ankara will keep pushing with more and more expansionist claims, interpreting International Law to the best interest of the country. It makes perfect sense, that this policy has been unfolding at...
Though the Middle East has hardly ever been an oasis of stability, the past few years have turned it into an unimaginably complex battleground with multiple rival blocs and players vying for hegemony. Traditionally, it was the Arab world under...
The Putinian Pax has been guaranteeing the pacification and return to stability of Russia’s most problematic regions since the end of the Second Chechen War but, under the climate of apparent peace, a new season of separatism seems ready to...