Turkey

Turkish foreign policy has undergone fundamental change under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Less understood is the rise of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) as a tool of Turkish foreign policy. The expanded scope and sophistication of Turkey’s intelligence and clandestine1 operations have become integral to its foreign and security policy. …

Devlet Bahceli also suggested that the conditions of the militant leader’s life sentence without parole be reconsidered if he agrees to make such a call. In a U-turn that came as a bombshell for Turkish politics, Devlet Bahceli, a top ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and leader of …

A series of explosions and gunshots were heard at TUSAS, Turkey’s state-run aerospace and defense company, in an attack Turkey’s defense chief blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party. An attack struck the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAS) headquarters near Ankara on Wednesday causing multiple casualties. Turkish officials blamed a Kurdish …

The attack against TUSAS comes amid signs of a renewed effort to bring an end to the conflict between the PKK and Turkish state. A banned Kurdish militant group on Friday claimed responsibility for an attack on the headquarters of a key defense company in the Turkish capital Ankara that …

Herkul, a website which publishes Gulen’s sermons, said on its X account that Gulen had died on Sunday evening in the U.S. hospital where he was being treated. The U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked on Tuesday how the United Nations (UN) can defend the rights of others when it is unable to protect the rights of its own staff amid Israeli attacks on peacekeepers in Lebanon. “We all watched in shame how helpless the UN Security Council and …

Recent discussions between Turkey and the United States indicate that the Biden administration is actively pursuing Ankara’s reinstatement in the F-35 program. It is difficult to justify why Washington would want to arm Turkey with these highly advanced fighter jets, when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan takes fervent measures to …

President of the Republic of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in an interview with the American “NBC News,” stated that he does not consider Hamas a terrorist organization but rather a resistance group defending its country, Anadolu Agency reported. Erdogan, who was in New York for the 79th United Nations General …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called on the United Nations General Assembly to recommend the use of forces, in accordance with the resolution passed in 1950, if the UN Security Council does not stop Israel’s attacks in Gaza and Lebanon, Anadolu Agency reported. The UN General Assembly should …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks a role for Turkey in Gaza’s post-war reconstruction if not governance, and the Biden administration appears ready to accede to this request. Others also see Turkish involvement after the conflict as a fait accompli. “It’s tough to imagine any long-term solution to the Gaza …