... supporting the coalition and leading the fight against Islamic State. Having refused to intervene directly in Syria, the countries that make up coalition focused for the most part on aerial bombardments, or on supplying weapons to and training the Syrian Kurds. It was on account of the Kurdish part of the Syrian Democratic Forces, a military association formed in October 2015 by followers of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, that Turkey opposed cooperation with them, fighting off their advances with ...
... significance since it exposed Putin’s eagerness to woo Ankara in its problematic status in formal Western alliance and Erdogan’s willingness to reconsider the place of Turkey in international system. At the moment Turkish foreign policy is ... ... success due to very different policy choices so far. The key question is whether Moscow will stop its support of the Syrian Kurds in return for Ankara giving up its attempts to overthrow Bashar al-Assad administration. Declaration on unprecedented partnership ...
... December 17, 2013, during which the President ordered his offspring to get rid of all the cash he had stored at home immediately.
And the Ravens Ridiculed
EPA/TOLGA BOZOGLU/Vostock Photo
Ilshat Saetov:
Turkey Politics: Who Wins from Stirring the War
against Kurds?
As per tradition, the Party once again found an external culprit. The government, which was the victim in the whole affair, discovered a plot against them. And the obedient media repeated the details. It was, of course, the usual suspects – ...
