Search: USA,Turkey (59 materials)

 

Buying Russian Missile Systems Would Be a Political Breakthrough for Turkey

... software and allow the Russian systems to penetrate the heart of NATO’s unified air defense system. Therefore the deal is unlikely be finalized, says Valdai Club expert Evgeny Buzhinsky. There should be no drastic and tragic changes in relations between Turkey and the United States. Of course, for Washington Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a “complex partner”, a so-called “Sultan,” who tries to pursue an independent foreign policy. Erdogan, in turn, also has a grudge against the US for the attempted ...

22.08.2018

BRICS Summit: A Blessing in Disguise

... inclusive multilateral trading system” to barbs intended for the President of the United States on specific issues, such as the refusal to approve new members of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. The already “mature” BRICS format entails ... ... the summit also demonstrated that BRICS members need to make difficult decisions today. Talks about potential new candidates (Turkey, Argentina and Indonesia) can be held until these candidates begin to give very serious consideration to the prospects ...

07.08.2018

Russia–Turkey Relations Need a Stronger Foundation

Russia is not an alternative to Turkey’s cooperation with the European Union; neither Turkey is a substitute for Russia working harder to resolve its problems with the United States and Europe Relations between Russia and Turkey have always been and will always be a controversial ...

02.08.2018

Turkey vs. the EU: Still arguing? Russians Are Coming…

... is grouped together with Angola (159th place), Myanmar (160th place), Chad (161st place) and Zimbabwe (162nd place). Freedom House ’s data for 2016 put the number of fired journalists at 2700; the property of 54 persons was confiscated. Kerim Has: TurkeyUSA Relations in a Tailspin: To Be Continued It is worth noting that late 2013 was marked by events that official Ankara calls an attempted coup and the opposition calls “a major corruption scandal” that resulted in four ministers being forced to ...

12.04.2018

Turkey and the Containment of Iran in the Middle East

... challenged American interests in the Middle East. However, the U.S. has also been clear that it would not seek direct confrontation with Tehran, relying instead on cooperation with other regional players. This renders it imperative to assess what role Turkey, a major NATO ally, is going to occupy in the future with regards to U.S. plans to limit Iranian expansion in the Middle East. Yulia Sveshnikova, Hamidreza Azizi: War of Interests for Peace in Syria Washington's concerns over rising Iranian influence ...

27.02.2018

What’s behind Trump’s Words? The Kurdish Card in the U.S. Foreign Policy

... end. The Kurds are already overwhelmed with the American weapons now becoming redundant. Thus, the American side considers a halt in excessive deliveries simultaneously undertaking preliminary measures for regulating the Kurdish question. Though the USA and Russia are not regional players (unlikely Turkey and Iran) they also need to reach an agreement. When the U.S. states that it will no more deliver armaments – this is a de-escalatory step towards Russia and seemingly towards admitting that the Kurdish region will eventually depend on Damascus ...

15.12.2017

TurkeyUSA Relations in a Tailspin: To Be Continued

... General in Istanbul who had held a key post in U.S.–Turkey structures for 34 years, coordinating interstate interaction of the police, prosecutors and drug control activities. The absurdity of the situation, as far as Washington is concerned, is that Turkey has made accusations that directly relate to the activities and official duties of Metin Topuz, which he had performed for more than 30 years working at the U.S. Consulate General. Ankara insists that Metin Topuz was directly implicated in the 2013 corruption scandal ...

15.11.2017

The aggravation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has a pernicious effect on international stability

Andrei Kortunov about the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, end of the war in Ukraine, the nuclear deal with Iran, and Turkey's heated relations with the West. The Director General of the Russian Council on International Affairs, Andrei Kortunov, in an interview to Vestnik Kavkaza spoke about the key issues of the international agenda that will be discussed at the forthcoming ...

14.09.2017

Do CIA and BND punish Recep T. Erdogan?

... (400 km), the long-range 48N6 (250 km), the medium-range 9M96E2 (120 km) and the short-range 9M96E (40 km). The S-400 has been described, as of 2017, as "one of the best air-defense systems currently made." As soon as S-400 is deployed in Turkey, Ankara is supposed to host Russian military Technicians and advisors in order to materialize its deployment and maintenance. More Russian military advisors mean more leverage of Putin in the decision making of Ankara. Actually, the NATO members ...

02.08.2017
 

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    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
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