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Can the Taliban Deal with their Handicaps?

Read: Pakistan and Afghanistan: Keeping India and the US at BayMany experts believe that these inconsistencies reflect the deep friction between the Taliban’s political leaders and their hardline commanders and foot soldiers, whereas the abrupt backtrack on girls going to school acts as the biggest indicator of this.

The Geopolitics of Russia-Turkey Relations amid the Ukraine War

As a result, Russia's relative weight in Turkey's natural gas import was lessening, Turkey’s relationship with Ukraine and Azerbaijan was deepening, the normalization with Armenia was initiated, institutionalized dialogue mechanisms with the Central Asian republics were established, and the dialogue with the USA, Qatar, and Pakistan over Afghanistan was held.

The Montreux Convention and the Russia-Ukraine War

Read: Russia-Ukraine War: Why India, Israel, and Pakistan Have Chosen SilenceIn order to ensure the security of the Black Sea littoral states, including Turkey, and the Black Sea itself, the convention limits the total tonnage of military ships that non-Black Sea littoral states can keep in the sea in peacetime to 30,000, and up to 45,000 tons under certain conditions, and to 21 days of stay (Article 18).