The military coup in Turkey underlines the need for cooperation between Russia and Turkey
Igor Ivanov, former Russian foreign minister, says the military coup in Turkey underlines the need for cooperation between Russia and Turkey.
19.07.2016
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“Ankara–Tel Aviv” Orient Express: Course Set for Rapprochement?
Turkey’s foreign policy has been on the rise this past month. Riding the wave of de-escalation in the Russia–Turkey dialogue, relations between Ankara and Tel Aviv are also being resumed after an almost six-year break. One should not forget ...
06.07.2016
Recep Erdogan’s Letter Is an Acknowledgement that the Attack on SU-24 Failed to Achieve its Goals
... apology itself can be interpreted differently (it is addressed to the families of the deceased pilots and in Turkish, sounds somewhat like “Alright, guys, we made a mistake, no hard feelings, OK?”), there is no doubt that the President of Turkey intended his letter to be taken as an apology. Judging by the reaction from the Kremlin, and given the fact that the Press Secretary for the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov, is fluent in Turkish, it would seem that the text of the apology has ...
29.06.2016
Turkish Ambassador to Russia Umit Yardym visits RIAC
On May 17, 2016 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a meeting of its Director General Andrey Kortunov with Umit Yardim, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Turkey to the Russian Federation. The meeting was attended by RIAC Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov, RIAC Program Manager Lyudmila Filippova and Second Secretary of the Turkish Embassy Fatih Topaloglu. The RIAC Director General and the Turkish ...
17.05.2016
NATO Black Sea Flotilla. A reef in the Turkish Straits
... Rotational Force which is dispatched at the Mihail Kogălniceanu airbase, and provides the US with a naval support facility in Deveselu. This NATO flotilla would primarily rely on NATO Black Sea members naval capabilities (i.e. Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey), but would not be restricted to them, with prospects to join already offered to Ukraine and Georgia, while some Western navies would be contributing as well (in particular the US, Italian and German).[1] Taking into account that all Black Sea ...
27.04.2016
The Russia–NATO Council: will there be a dialogue?
... been a forum in which partners can participate on an equal footing in their national capacity. If that had been the case, the Council would have had to discuss the incident within the framework of its own format, i.e. with the participation of Russia, Turkey and other member countries of the RNC. This did not happen, however, and the question why did not arise. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle Igor Ivanov: How Can We Ensure National Security in the 21st Century? The principle of dialogue on an equal footing ...
20.04.2016
Western Democracy Is on Trial, More than Any Time Since WWII
... okay with the erosion of democratic values and a deeply undemocratic military occupation of the West Bank as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict stifles Israel’s left and drives its people further to the right. The assault on democratic norms in Turkey by its government is far worse. Still worse in that region, the Arab Spring has, in general, become a massive tragedy. Archive Additionally, democracy by no means appears stable or secure overall in either Sub-Saharan Africa or in Latin America....
17.04.2016
Russia straddles two sides in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute
... the Kremlin has tried to come up with what Fenenko describes as “a balanced partnership” — “maintaining the collaborative relations with Armenia” and “a strategic partnership with Azerbaijan.” However, given Turkey’s political stakes in Azerbaijan and the sharp decline in Moscow-Ankara relations resulting from Turkey’s downing of a Russian jet near the Syrian border last year, the Kremlin’s attempts to straddle between Yerevan and Baku might ...
13.04.2016
A Little War that Didn’t Shake the World: a View from Yerevan
... international media with full titles and affiliations, something that they were previously denied of. To many, this raised hopes for a re-launch of peace process in its initial setting, with the participation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Russia the dealmaker, and Turkey the dealbreaker Some authors however suggest that Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the President of Turkey, whose eternal hug with Aliyev in Ankara weeks before had become a source of inspiration in social media, could have been behind encouraging Aliyev ...
08.04.2016
Turkey’s price arbitrage with Gazprom over Turkish Stream
... following Russia’s cancellation of South Stream which became a casualty of Russia-Ukrainian conflict and faced high opposition from the EU with regard to its anti-monopoly laws. The original plan for landfall in the EU (Bulgaria) will now occur in Turkey, while the distribution hub for Europe will be located at the border of Turkey and Greece. Being a strategically important transit point for Russian gas going to Europe and bypassing Ukraine, Turkey tries to increase its bargaining power and engages ...
07.04.2016
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