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Libya is a matter of life and death for Turkey!
Can Turkey solve its problems by introverting? More accurately, can Anatolia and Thrace be preserved for eternity? Some say yes. According to them, by focusing on interior problems, reducing unemployment, Turkey can maintain its presence and provide ... more
Turkey’s deal with Libya re-establishes blood bond between the nations
Following Turkey’s maritime deal with Libya over maritime borders, the balances have shifted in the Mediterranean.Years of ongoing covert anti-Turkey cooperation between the region’s states have finally come to the surface. They were forced to rethin... more
Should Turkey send troops to Libya?
Turkey has to focus on three main points, or at least it had to so in the past. I have previously expressed this. Libya is the gateway of the Persian gulf and the Mediterranean route to Africa, and Yemen is the key to the Indian Ocean.Unfortunately a... more
What are the impacts of Turkey’s ‘historic deal’ with Libya?
The maritime agreement signed between Turkey and Libya redefined the balances in the Mediterranean. While the previous agreements reached with regional countries, chiefly Greece and Israel, had completely isolated Turkey from the East Mediterranean, ... more
Saudi, UAE TV series attempts to portray Ottoman Empire, Turkey as invaders of Arab region
The introduction of photography and cinematography was the onset of a new era in history’s resources. Historians, though insistent on maintaining their classical tendencies with respect to resources, have also had to surrender to the power of visuals... more
Why is the world against Erdoğan and Putin?
Today’s events are not independent from history.Or if we use the more hackneyed phrase: those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.This is also the reason that history was written in at least a quarter of a century.Just as ancestors p... more
Saudi, UAE attempt to compete with Resurrection: Ertuğrul by launching new TV series
Cinema and television series outrank almost all means of social engineering. Cinema was initially considered solely as a means of entertainment. In time, as its ability to easily and quickly influence the masses through its images and language was di... more
Is the Riyadh deal dividing Yemen?
As we reach the end of 2019, perhaps the best development of the year in the Middle East is that the expected war has not been launched against Iran. The tensions which had been exacerbated throughout 2018 by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates... more
How Bolton’s departure and the Saudi Aramco drone attacks are linked
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are now exhausted of the Yemen war they have been pursuing since 2015. They did not reap the fruit they expected to and fell into dispute among themselves. Each of them started to back different groups ... more
The UK’s clandestine negotiations in the Red Sea
As everybody's attention turned towards the security of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, secret negotiations were launched in the Red Sea. Failure of the Saudi Arabia-led coalition to achieve any results in the Yemen War led to cracks in th... more
Hajj policies of the Republic of Turkey
A headline that is frequently used as a part of political humor which indicates the Turkish press’ lack of religious knowledge has been numerously repeated: “This year, Hajj coincides with Eid al-Adha again.” The dark comedy aspect of the matter asid... more
Turkey’s Africa policy and the curiosity of the British and Germans
Ever since 2015, with its discourse and action, Turkey has crossed many bridges and made extensive progress in Africa.However, there have also been ups and downs due to shifts in regional balances and the diverting problems centering around Turkey.Th... more
Is the alliance between Saudi’s MBS and UAE’s MBZ cracking?
Those of you who are following the tensions in the Gulf are probably aware of fresh developments.The regional alliance that has been managed through Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and United Arab Emirates (UAE) Crown Prince Mohammed b... more