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Turkey’s unclear path towards the EU

  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Paris last Friday and met with French President Emmanuel Macron, discussing at length his country’s relations with the EU and its hopes of accession to the bloc. The divergent approaches of the two leaders were then voiced at the press conference t...
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‘No excuses’ as Turkey adopts new system of government

  • Turkey moved to a new method of governance called “executive presidency” with a lavish ceremony held last week in Ankara. The framework for this model of governance was approved in the constitutional referendum of 2017. In the June 24 elections held according to this constitutional amendment, R...
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Turkey should use EU accession process as excuse for reform

  • The first EU-Arab League summit took place on Sunday and Monday in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The framework for institutional cooperation between the EU and Arab League states was agreed in 2015, but this was the first meeting at the summit level. The attendance was impressive from both sides: ...
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Is the white supremacist movement expanding?

  • Police block the road near the shooting at a mosque in Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, March 15, 2019. Multiple people were killed during shootings at two mosques full of people attending Friday prayers. (AP) Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the terrorist at...
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How the Khartoum coup will affect Turkey-Sudan relations

  •   President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with then President of Sudan Omar Al-Bashir in Khartoum in this handout photo released by the Turkish Presidential Press Office on December 24, 2017. (Turkish Presidential Press Office/AFP) This month’s military coup in Sudan removed fr...
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Erdogan’s measured address to the UN General Assembly

  • When world leaders address UN forums, especially the General Assembly (UNGA), they raise issues that are important to their domestic audience. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not break this tradition. On Sept. 24 at the UNGA, issues he emphasized included Israeli expansionism, refo...
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Isolated Turkey under mounting international pressure

  • The military operation Turkey launched to the east of Euphrates in Syria last week was first announced more than a year ago, but was delayed for several reasons. It has been dubbed “Operation Peace Spring” in the hope that it will become a source or a fountain of peace. There is a quote attri...
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Trump’s deal further complicates a complex situation

  • US President Donald Trump last week finally disclosed his “deal of the century” on the Palestinian issue, but both the content and the way it was presented were inadequate. The deal was presented in the absence of anyone who would represent the Palestinian people. The content was also devoid of...
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Will Turkey find its way in the complicated Idlib chessboard?

  • When a Turkish Army detachment came under attack by Russia-supported Syrian forces and lost eight soldiers, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that such attacks will not avoid retaliation. In the subsequent days, Turkey has sent reinforcements of some 9,000 soldiers and heavy equipment...
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Turkish-Russian cooperation runs into difficulties

  • Ambivalence has started to creep into Turkish-Russian relations. Perhaps it had been present since the outset but was concealed by the two sides’ ambitious joint projects. But, as their cooperation in Syria has shown signs of bogging down and Libya has become an arena of rivalry, the ambivalenc...
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