The history of Turkey and Iran, two of the Middle East’s most powerful nation-states, is characterized by years of rivalry, which remains the case today as Iran seeks to shape the region in consistency with its vision.
Precisely a hundred years ago, on 16 May 1916, the iniquitous Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916) was signed between Britain and France –Sir Mark Sykes and Georges Picot- whose goal was to partition Anatolia and the Arab Middle East among the two should the Ottoman Empire be defeated in the First World War.
Last year, the 70th anniversary of the establishment of theUnited Nations was celebrated around the world; however, its endemic failures rather than its accomplishments predominated the discussions.
ollowing the coordinated terrorist attacks in which 130 people were killed in Paris on November 13th, many observers (including politicians) declared that France was going through its own “9/11”.
he shooting down of a Russian bomber aircraft by the Turkish Air Force in November 24, 2015 near the Syrian border represents the nadir of Turkish-Russian relations since the turn of the 21st century.