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Saudi-Turkish ties get new meaning

  • Upon the invitation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif paid a two-day official visit to Turkish capital of Ankara from Sept. 29-30.The visit of the crown prince, who was accompanied by a high-level delegation, is just a routine visit which aims to...
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Less talk, more action needed on women’s rights!

  • This week, Ankara hosted a significant workshop entitled “The role of women in the development of OIC member states” organized by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). It brought together leading academics, officials and women’s rights advocates from Iran to Egypt, from Palestine to...
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Ankara treads a fine line between regional challenges

  • Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım in late May had said, “Turkey has a lot of problems. We have regional problems. We are aware of it. So what will we do? Very simple: We’ll increase the number of our friends and we’ll decrease the number of our enemies.”Last week showed us how this theory...
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Mosul: Opening a Pandora’s box

  • As is known to all, in mythology “Pandora’s box” refers to a large jar that contained all the evils of the world and when it was opened, all the evils (hatred, pain, poverty, war and death) flew out. Once it was closed again, the last thing left in the box was “hope.” Long story short: It refers...
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Shifting of alliances in the Mideast?

  • Hardly a day passes without a development in the Middle East and the extraordinary complexity of developments in the region creates a serious paradox. The already complicated picture in the region has even become more complex with the recent moves of Egypt. Last week, there were reports...
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Turkey-KRG alliance, PKK and the EU

  • The prime minister of the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), Nechirvan Barzani, was in Turkey this week for talks with top Turkish officials amid significant developments taking place in the region. It was his second visit to Turkey this year and topics of discussion ranged from the ongoing...
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What’s at stake for Ankara-Tehran ties?

  • The relations between two major non-Arab countries, Turkey and Iran, in the Middle East have deep historical roots and since the 1639 Treaty of Qasr-e-Shirin, the two countries have maintained these ties.Throughout the history, Turkish-Iranian relations have had their ups and downs both due to...
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Women in Mideast politics: One step forward, two steps back

  • Exactly 13 years ago today, on 10 Dec. 2003, Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi became the first Muslim woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize for her work on human rights with a special focus on women.A staunch critique of Iranian regime, Ebadi has been exiled from Iran since 2009 for her work...
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Ankara breaks ice with Baghdad after period of tension

  • Both Turkey and Iraq rolled up their sleeves to open a new page in relations after a period of animosity. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım’s first official visit in 2017 was to Iraq, where he met with his Iraqi counterpart Haider Al-Abadi last week to have talks on several issues. Needless...
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On Erdogan’s Gulf tour and expectations

  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be on a four-day Gulf tour, during which he will visit important countries of the region. Political and economic relations, as well as regional issues — particularly the conflict in Syria and chaos in Iraq — will be on his agenda. The visit could be...
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