AUKUS and Its Potential Implications for the MENA Region
was able to embark on its Middle Eastern policy vis-à-vis its European partners, but strategic gains that directly hinder EU profitability will cause certain fractions in this practice.
To Whom It May Concern: Turkey’s Counter-Spy Operations Send Messages
In the aftermath, Turkish-Israeli relations followed a tense course, culminating in Israel’s aggression over Jerusalem and the Israeli-Greek rapprochement in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Turkey’s Submarine Industry: Where Does the Country Stand Currently?
Read: Turkey's Drilling Ships to Respond to Injustice in the Eastern MediterraneanAlthough submarines are traditionally attributed sea-denial roles, which aim to undermine adversary trade in maritime lines or prevent naval forces from reaching friendly shores, the current geopolitics and technological leaps may dictate varying uses.
Realpolitik vs. Idealpolitik: Turkey-Gulf Re-friending after a Decade-Long Rivalry
It was reported that Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Nechirvan Barzani, a good friend of both Erdoğan and MBZ, helped facilitate the rapprochement between Turkey and the UAE – two countries that confronted on almost all regional issues concerning Libya, Egypt, the Horn of Africa, Yemen, and the Eastern Mediterranean throughout the past decade.
How to Read Russian Expansionism in Africa
Although they work with Haftar's forces, Russian mercenaries have become a serious asset in the country at this point and they play critical roles, especially in the eastern and southern regions of Libya.
Will Turkey Delimitate Its Maritime Borders with Egypt and Palestine?
he Eastern Mediterranean is a relatively narrow strip in the Mediterranean Sea surrounded by the coasts of ten different states, making coastal relations between these countries a technically complex issue.
The Geopolitics of Turkey’s Gas Discoveries in the Black Sea
Also, in Israel’s Tamar field, one of the most important natural gas discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean, the production process began 3.
Turkish-Egyptian Rapprochement: Dynamics, Prospects, and Expectations
The latter is evident from a brief glance at the contemporary political disputes in places such as Libya and the Eastern Mediterranean, where Ankara and Cairo have been in opposite blocs of the disputes until recently.
Russia’s Lebanese Matryoshka Doll
The issue of arming the LAF with eastern or even Iranian weapons is a recurrent topic which surfaces occasionally but never leads anywhere.
Two-State Solution for Cyprus Difficult, But Not Impossible
He also claims that a two-state solution would solve many of the ongoing problems between the Turkish and Greek Cypriots, and would allow them to establish warm diplomatic ties that would not only prove mutually beneficial to both communities on the island, but would likewise bring about greater prosperity to the entire Eastern Mediterranean.
EU Member States Seek to Strengthen Ties with the New Libyan Government
This angered some of their neighbors in the Eastern Mediterranean as well as some EU members who were willing “to circumvent the agreement if it cannot be cancelled” as a European diplomat told Le Monde.
Ship Attacks in the Persian Gulf: Another Manifestation of an Iranian-Israeli Proxy War?
Israel and Iran were the only Middle Eastern countries to support and celebrate Saddam's overthrow - Iran even more so than Israel.
Where Does Libya Fit in Biden’s Foreign Policy Priorities?
The internationalized nature of the Libyan war is also linked with other regional tensions along Europe’s southern border, namely the tensions between Turkey, Greece, and other European and Middle East powers over maritime rights and resources in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Reconciliation Efforts Continue between Egypt and Turkey
In the ongoing Eastern Mediterranean conflict over natural gas and maritime borders, Egypt supported Greek Cyprus against Turkey.
How the Egyptian Press Views a Possible Egyptian-Turkish Reconciliation
Therefore, it has been ‘flirting’ with Egypt lately,” claimed Mohammed Hamed, director at the East Mediterranean Gas Forum.
EU Criminalizes Human Rights Defenders Helping Migrants at Sea
Similarly, during the Cold War, when a mass migration took place from the Eastern Europe toward the West, smuggling of citizens, particularly to cross the Berlin Wall, was a common practice.
Turkey and Greece: Exploratory Talks under the Shadow of Third Parties
However, rivalry in the Eastern Mediterranean turned the Aegean crises into a larger problem premised on the delimitation of maritime borders and especially in relation to the islands near Turkey’s coast.
Gulf Regional Rift Mended but Will It Extend to Turkey?
The failed coup in Turkey in 2016, the unjust blockade of Qatar in 2017, the Arab duo’s constant support of counterrevolutionary forces in Syria, Libya, and Sudan, and their anti-Turkey stance in the Eastern Mediterranean, have vitiated any chance to recuperate the fraught ties between Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
Is the UAE-Saudi Political Alliance Sustainable?
While the UAE-Saudi Arabia axis continued its anti-Turkey policies, it also followed similar policies in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Horn of Africa, Libya, Syria, Iraq, and lately in the Maghreb region.
Europe Is Not United in Its Motivation to Sanction Turkey
What we have witnessed in the recent months in the Eastern Mediterranean and over the main European negotiation tables are nothing more than the products of those unresolved issues and stances that have little to do with realpolitik.
