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According to a local information centre, in the past decade alone, Israel has demolished 200 housing units in occupied East Jerusalem leaving 440 Palestinians homeless. In the cruellest and...
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Back in 2017, two Israeli advisors to the Jerusalem Municipality, David Koren and Ben Avrahami, shared their concerns about Turkey's increasingly visible role in the Holy City. These two...
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Over the past week, two brutal events added more sadness to the morbid climate of the coronavirus pandemic. In Minneapolis, a black American citizen was killed by a police...
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The antagonism of Saudi Arabia and the UAE against Turkey has been incremental and provocative. Nevertheless, Turkey is maintaining its de-escalation strategy with a conciliatory approach. For how long,...
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Slanted news coverage has a major impact on public perceptions of the topic in question. Media bias doesn't exclusively mean content bias, though; the presentation style of the report...
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The crisis in Idlib has undoubtedly been the most serious test for the resilience of Turkey-Russia relations. The military calculus and political dynamics of both sides are highly complicated...
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Following the killing of Turkish soldiers in Syria's Idlib province and the dramatic rise in atrocities, Turkey has allowed more than 100,000 migrants and refugees across its border with...
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Reacting to Donald Trump's "deal of the century", Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that "Jerusalem is not for sale". On Saturday, the Arab League completely rejected Trump's plan during...
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The Palestinians have realised that American President Donald Trump is seeking to solely bolster Israel and to utterly isolate the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO). When...
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The Iranian assassinated military commander, Qasem Soleimani, was carried to his final resting place on the shoulders of huge crowds packing the streets of the Iranian capital, Tehran. Speakers...
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced recently that Turkish troops have begun moving into Libya after Turkey's parliament approved the deployment last week. The move comes after Ankara and Tripoli...
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When Turkey's third cross-border operation in Northern Syria started on 9 October, condemnation of the Turkish "invasion" came from around the world, as well as calls for it to...
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The war of words between Turkish and German officials and diplomats started when Germany prevented Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag from holding a rally in Germany. The minister headed...
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Ever since the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, Hamas has found itself in Egypt's crosshairs. The regime of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has opted for a multifaceted retributive strategy toward...
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters at Ankara's Esenboga Airport before leaving for Pakistan: "They have also appointed their envoy. I believe they start their duty today." Turkey, he...
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The Arabs have long been indoctrinated that the Ottomans were foreign invaders who occupied Arab lands, while Turks were taught that "Arabs betrayed our ancestors". Were our history lessons...
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Did Erdogan, symbolically the only leader ready to stand up to Israeli arrogance, make a pragmatic U-turn in his country’s relations with Israel at the expense of the Palestinians?
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Erdogan is not only proud of his country’s past, but he also tries to attach his name as a sequel to the Ottoman civilisation
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The Turkish government embarked legally on an operation against insurgents in 2013 when their dirty games emerged; the latest coup attempt will boost the government’s efforts to purge the army of mutineers and traitors
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Recently, there have been genuine calls by intellectuals in Islamic movements in the Arab world for the recalibration and reassessment of strategies, ideologies, paradigms and tactics. Some even called...
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Politically, Netanyahu and his narrow coalition was about to accomplish a Turkish-Israeli compromise to warm up relations with Turkey after sever intensions. The sudden invitation to Lieberman, however, most likely blows away previous efforts and agreements.
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Obama’s allies in the region, explicitly Turkey, repeatedly offered him options which avoided a full-scale offensive. People are striving for feasible solutions such as a no-fly zone for refugees.
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Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said that he is "ready to concede all positions in order not to inflict any harm to our party's cause or to my...
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Egyptian anger at the government's handover of two islands in the Gulf of Aqaba to Saudi Arabia is palpable. "The outrage of the Egyptian activists and bloggers is utterly...
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The Kurds in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey have made no secret of their longing for a self-governing state. Since the start of the conflict in Syria, the Kurds...
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Abu Jihad, a Palestinian businessman has lived in Istanbul for more than 25 years and exporting goods to Gaza for almost all of that time. “For God’s sake,” he...
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A letter written by a Turkish soldier has been published in the local media in Turkey. The soldier is currently fighting against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in...
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Despite their regional political rivalry, Turkey has maintained its relations with Muslim rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia. Since the Ottoman war with Safavid Persia almost 400 years ago, Turkey...
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“I counted all the gunshots in his chest one by one. Why did they shoot him? He was naked and waving with his hands pleading for their help to...
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If Deniz Zeyrek, a famous leftist journalist in Turkey, was to say, “The state of Israel and its people are undoubtedly sincere friends of Turkey and our condemnations until...