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Items by Ali Hussein Bakir
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Turkey’s star is rising in Africa
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s tour to Angola, Togo and Nigeria last month attracted a lot of attention on more than one level. The tour concluded just days before Ankara hosted the third Turkish-African Economic and Business Forum and the third Turkish-African Partnership Summit. Erdogan aimed to strengthen cooperation between…
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The return of the Taliban: China’s reckonings
In an interview conducted recently with an Italian newspaper, the Taliban movement spokesperson, Zabiullah Mujahid, pointed out that the movement was ready to rely on China economically in its bid to manage the country following their swift takeover after the US troops withdrawal from the country after twenty years of…
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Why should Syria’s Assad fear events in North Africa?
Until recently, Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad was seen as the dictator who succeeded in stopping the domino effect of Arab revolutions, which started from Tunisia at the end of 2010 and subsequently spread to Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Iraq. The regime did not hesitate to use all means necessary to stop…
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Why won’t Turkey abandon the S-400 deal with Russia?
Washington’s first deadline for Turkey to respond to its offer to buy the Patriot missile defence system passed last Friday with no progress made. Only one day after the deadline, US Vice President Mike Pence raised the issue once again with Ankara regarding Turkey’s recent deal to acquire the Russian…