Balkan Daesh Fighters in Numbers
Some of the highest numbers of foreign fighters joining Daesh came from the Balkans, and these states now face the huge challenges of dealing with returned fighters and their families.
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The Turkish-Libyan Maritime Deal: What Are the Implications?
The maritime deal has significantly redrawn boundaries within the Eastern Mediterranean, and will strengthen Turkey’s position in ongoing negotiations in…
Bosnian Genocide Denier Peter Handke Receives Nobel Prize in Literature
Despite strong international criticism, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Austrian author Peter Handke. Handke’s open denial of…
‘Happiness Means Fighting’: Haluk Bilginer’s Long Road to Emmy Award
Turkish Actor Haluk Bilginer won the Best Actor award at the 47th International Emmy Awards, for his performance in the…
Who Was James Le Mesurier of the White Helmets?
Le Mesurier is largely seen as the co-founder of the White Helmets, and the loss of such a major advocate…
Mazloum Kobani Is Becoming another Thorn in US-Turkey Relations
Mazloum Kobani is among Turkey’s most wanted terrorists and is placed on the Turkish Interior Ministry’s Interpol red notice list.
Why the Northern Syrian Oil Fields Are So Important to Trump
Despite President Donald Trump repeatedly saying that US troops are staying in Syria in order to ‘secure the oil’, data…
Did John Bass threaten Turkey with terror attacks?
A flashing statement made by Bass was that “There have been no terrorist attacks in Turkey for the past 9 months.…
What was the point? US suspension of non-immigrant visas
Following the arrest of Metin Topuz, a US Consulate personnel, the US decided to suspend non-immigrant visa applications from Turkey.
Israel wants to “exploit” the Kurdish people – Mahmoud Othman
In respect to the Israeli support for the referendum, Othman claimed that “nothing good would come” from Israeli support to…
Baghdad: any deal violating the Constitution will not be recognized
Following calls from the KRG, on Saturday Barzani met with Allawi and al-Nujaifi in Sulaimaniyah for talks aimed at easing…
US and Turkey suspend all non-immigrant visa operations
Following the announcement of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, the Turkish Embassy in the U.S. announced yesterday that processing non-immigrant…
Turkey intervenes in Idlib
Speaking to reporters in the western province of Afyonkarahisar, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stated that Turkey aims to prevent…
“Divide and Rule” – this time through Kurdish independence
“Exactly like the past century, the motto for this century is ‘divide and rule.’ This strategy has been implemented successfully…
Attacks against Rohingya continue in Myanmar
“The patterns of attacks are evidently conducted systematically. The vigilante group torch Rohingya homes, the Rohingya families flee and police…
The fight against FETO continues
Speaking to reporters in south-eastern Gaziantep province, on Friday Abdulhamit Gul stated: “Recently all commitments have been fulfilled according to…
The KRG referendum: chaos continues
Insisting that the referendum has done nothing but harmed KRG relations with the region and increased the likelihood of safe-zones…
Iraq’s first non-Arab President Jalal Talabani dies in Berlin at 83
Ex-President was a key figure in the transitional governing council, which drafted the new Constitution of Iraq following the overthrow…
The cooperation between Ankara and Moscow to yield positive results for the region
Thanking Erdogan for his commitment and effort to solve the Syrian issue, Putin added that “it was really difficult to…
Rohingya crisis continues
“We cannot be afraid to call the actions of the Burmese [Myanmar] authorities what they appear to be: a brutal,…
Ankara and Washington on the upcoming crises: northern Iraq
Following a meeting with the UN Iraq Envoy Jan Kubis, in a statement Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Jaafari stated that…
Turkey to maintain its economic growth
On Wednesday the government announced new tax measures which aim to add 28 billion Turkish liras ($8 billion) to the…
KRG and Syria: the agenda in the Middle East
Referring to the British spy T.S. Lawrence, who was connected to the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the…
