... clear-cut
policy
in the Syria conflict, at least since the completion of the Tehran nuclear deal when the prospect of a peripheral war against Iran moved to the backburner. As a result, the United States virtually franchised Syria to its regional allies Turkey and Saudi Arabia whose views on Syria hardly coincide with U.S. national interests. No wonder, the U.S. positions in the Middle East have been shattered, as well as the allies’ faith in the American leadership. Even the habitually supportive ...
... on PKK’s military camps in Northern Iraq, acknowledging the de facto responsibility of the Kurdish rebels in the suicide bombing.
The TAK has been reportedly created by the PKK a decade ago, and has been tasked to carry out attacks in Western Turkey, outside of PKK’s usual area of operation. While the PKK generally targets Turkish military objectives in which civilian casualties are supposedly low, the TAK on the contrary attacks civilian places and objectives in order to get the maximum ...
... countries that make these statements. Syria is not Bahrain or Yemen. The war in Syria is fraught with direct confrontation with Iran and Russia. I think the Saudis are not ready for a large-scale ground operation - either politically or technically. As for Turkey, Erdogan is not crazy either. He does not want to get involved into the war in Syria. It appears that Turkey is not planning large-scale operations in the Syrian territory.
Interviewed by Nina Leontieva
Source:
Pravda.com
Despite the complexity of regional dynamics, Turkey and Azerbaijan have succeeded to intensely improve their relations throughout the last quarter of century. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, one of the regions Turkey discovered after a long period of time was the Caucasus, alongside ...
... International Affairs Council and the Turkish International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (
MIRNaS
).
The event was attended by RIAC Program Director
Ivan Timofeev
; MIRNaS Director General
Arif Asalyoglu
; former Foreign Minister of Turkey Yasar Yakis;
Vitaly Naumkin
, Director of the RAS Institute for Oriental Studies, and
Pyotr Stegny
, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia, both RIAC members; leading Turkish and Russian experts, researchers, representatives ...
The flare-up between Russia and Turkey following the incident with the downed Russian military jet
[1]
has adversely affected the dynamics of the Middle East crisis. The tension that has arisen between the two countries can have far-reaching consequences for the Caucasus region.
The ...
... how rigorously politicians try to prevent it. Given the lack of effective communication channels between Russian and Western political elites and top brass, the possibility of the war, even though hypothetical, is increasing amidst the tension between Turkey and Russia. The world might underestimate the Turkey factor in Russia-West relations and its implications for the world stability, when it was probably the case during the onset of the Ukraine crisis, before the Euromaidan protests turned into ...
On February 15, 2016 Director General Andrey Kortunov held a meeting with Umit Yardim, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Turkey to the Russian Federation.
The meeting was also attended by RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev, Counselor at the Embassy of Turkey Subutay Yuksel, RIAC Program Manager Lyudmila Filippova and Second Secretary of the Turkish Embassy Fatih Topaloglu....
... and the major players are not perfect to put it mildly.
“Russia is under sanctions from the US and the European Union,” he said. “Russia has very complicated relations with its neighbors in the West and has a crisis in relations with Turkey.”
These are the top challenges which are typical for any country in the world that is vulnerable to the threat of terrorism, challenges of migration and many have to confront the challenges of climate change and environmental problems, according ...
... Iran, Ukraine, NATO, BMD, gas pipelines and other matters were swept under the rug. But this mutual hypocrisy could not last forever. In a way, the ongoing crisis became possible only because the notion of a strategic partnership between Russia and Turkey had remained only on paper. Lacking the proper strategic depth, it did not pass a reality check and collapsed as a house of cards.
Still, though the strategic partnership had been mostly imaginary, the losses appeared to be more than real. Today ...
