It pitted those who were “in” against those who were “out,” the latter comprising of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).
A growing presence of HTS will make a Russian-supported regime assault on Idlib more likely as Turkey will have a weaker position to prevent such an operation.
military officials, especially those at CENTCOM, have expressed displeasure about Turkey as they have perceived Turkish efforts in northern Syria as hindering their anti-Daesh mission despite the fact that Turkey has been part of the anti-Daesh coalition from the beginning.
The AK Party and MHP saw the mobilization of the opposition block as a danger for consolidating the presidential system and Turkey’s fight against terrorism.
Other leading actors of the regional power struggle, such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, also endorse similar motivations and do not want the war in Syria to extend.
n September 20, 2018, that is to say, three months subsequent to the parliamentary and presidential elections in Turkey, the presidential candidate of the opposition party, the left-secular CHP, Muharrem Ince, was asked whether he will run for mayor in Istanbul’s Metropolitan Municipality in the upcoming local elections in March 2019.
And, I should stress once again that not some economic weaknesses on the part of Turkey but pure politics triggered what happened in financial markets, as U.
The upshot of this media campaign is about the fact that the economic and cultural elites in the country have grown restless about the direction Turkey is leading in.
While ministers of Egypt, Israel, the Greek Cypriot administration of South Cyprus, Palestine, Jordan, and Italy attended the meeting, representatives of five Eastern Mediterranean countries, Turkey, Libya, Syria, Lebanon and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus were not invited.
) are normalizing relations with Assad regime, the oldest standing ally of Iran in the region; they seem more interested in countering Turkey then Iran.
n 2006, Turkey had experienced a surprising moment of political encounter during the 61st General Assembly of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges Turkey (TOBB).