“After Srebrenica, you said never again…Shame on you World!” These were the words written on the posters of demonstrators who gathered in Sarajevo in 2016 to condemn the Assad regime’s...
June 16, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent remarks that, “If Greece does not know its place, Turkey knows how to answer”, drew a swift and equally menacing response from Athens....
The ongoing war in Libya took a dramatic turn recently exposing the extent of foreign involvement in the conflict, notably by Russia. Hundreds of Russian “military contractors” — aka...
April 23, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik The people of Greece and Turkey argue over many things. Food, for example; both claim “baklava” as their own, and prepare it in their own way. It would have...
April 3, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik Academic Nukhet Varlık has written a timely book on the experience of the Ottoman Empire in coping with plague. The Professor of History at Rutgers University is the author...
March 23, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik Coronavirus part 1: Should Russia really declare an oil price war against the Middle East? Gold prices have risen while that of oil has slumped due to the coronavirus...
March 10, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik This week we saw comparisons of the price of a barrel of oil — $30 — with the price of an empty barrel, at around $33. This is the...
March 3, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik This week we have seen the first reported death of a refugee in the latest phase of the Syrian crisis, when a Syrian man was shot by Greek border...
February 27, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik In 1918, the Spanish flu pandemic killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. The current coronavirus epidemic, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, has...
February 14, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik ‘We have tried to expose the fact that there were people who could have been killed as a result of foreign mercenaries being hired by the UAE,’ Hakan Camuz...
February 10, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik The situation in Idlib could be the greatest failure of the international community in human history, according to a member of the Turkish Presidency Security and Foreign Policy Council,...
Swedish furniture and home goods retailer IKEA is being praised for defending a Muslim employee after a racist online customer’s review of its store in Aubonne, Switzerland, Daily Sabah...
February 7, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik Last December, Robert Malley, president and CEO of the International Crisis Group, penned an article for the Foreign Affairs magazine, addressing the topic: “The Unwanted Wars: Why the Middle...
January 29, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik Following the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923, African affairs were regarded as a secondary issue in the new state’s foreign policy. Until relatively recently, that is, when...
January 20, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik Distinguished Libyan journalist and political analyst, Ashur Shamis, has spoken out on the Libyan Civil War and ceasefire in the country
January 15, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik Increasing tensions between Iran and the US have led to fears of a widening conflict in the Middle East, with energy market participants increasingly concerned that the fallout could...
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US January 10, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik Turkey has announced that it is sending troops to Libya at a time when it is dealing with a new influx of refugees from Syria’s north-western province, Idlib. Millions...
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US January 1, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik Energy has always played a crucial geopolitical role. Natural gas is a part of this important sector; with the switch from coal-to-gas, the demand for natural gas jumped by...
December 24, 2019
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Elif Selin Calik An interview with Professor Stephen Bronner, by Elif Selin Calik
December 9, 2019
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Elif Selin Calik On 27 November, Turkey and Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) signed a bilateral memorandum of understanding (MoU). Turkey intended to exercise its rights under international law and the...
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UN November 27, 2019
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Elif Selin Calik In collaboration with major industrial countries like the US and France, several Mediterranean countries have discovered oil and gas resources under the sea bed. The aim of these countries...
November 11, 2019
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Elif Selin Calik After being vetoed twice for membership of the European Union in 1967, the United Kingdom was finally admitted at the third attempt in 1973. Today, the British government is...
October 16, 2019
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Elif Selin Calik The reaction of Western countries to Turkey’s fight against terrorists groups in north-eastern Syria requires the international community to have a serious rethink about Article 5 of the 1949...
October 10, 2019
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Elif Selin Calik Last week saw the anniversary — on 3 October — of the tragic drowning of more than 300 migrants when their overcrowded vessel capsized off the coast of Italy....
January 24, 2019
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Elif Selin Calik Tim Marshall served a long stint as diplomatic editor of Britain’s Sky News. In his book “Prisoners of Geography”, he argues that topography imprisons leaders. “This was true of...
![Mother of a Srebrenica victim Fazila Efendic visits graves of her husband and son who lost their lives in the genocide, which started on July 11, 1995 when soldiers under the command of Serbian commander Ratko Mladic took over the city of Srebrenica, at Potocari Memorial Cemetery in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina on February 15, 2020. [Samır Jordamovıc - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200215_2_40861845_52182189.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
“After Srebrenica, you said never again…Shame on you World!” These were the words written on the posters of demonstrators who gathered in Sarajevo in 2016 to condemn the Assad regime’s...![Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives before a meeting with European Commission President and EU Council President at the EU headquarters in Brussels on 9 March, 2020 [JOHN THYS/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/GettyImages-1206282838-scaled-e1592312507185.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent remarks that, “If Greece does not know its place, Turkey knows how to answer”, drew a swift and equally menacing response from Athens....![Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (R) meets with Khalifa Haftar eastern Libya-based military commander at the Russian Foreign Ministry's Reception House in Moscow, Russia on 13 January 2020. [Russian Foreign Ministry / Handout - Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200113_2_40302175_51158024-e1579171756314.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The ongoing war in Libya took a dramatic turn recently exposing the extent of foreign involvement in the conflict, notably by Russia. Hundreds of Russian “military contractors” — aka...![The open sea maritime training of the third grade students of Naval Academy of Turkish National Defense University, that will inclusive of the harbour visits at Albania, Italy, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey's Mugla with TCG Bayraktar navy vessel kicks off, on 12 July 2019 in Istanbul, Turkey. [Muhammed Enes Yıldırım - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/20190712_2_37317713_46020898.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The people of Greece and Turkey argue over many things. Food, for example; both claim “baklava” as their own, and prepare it in their own way. It would have...![Academic Nukhet Varlık [Newark History Dept/Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Nukhet-Varlık.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Academic Nukhet Varlık has written a timely book on the experience of the Ottoman Empire in coping with plague. The Professor of History at Rutgers University is the author...![Image of Gold Bullion [file photo]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/news/gold-bullion.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Coronavirus part 1: Should Russia really declare an oil price war against the Middle East? Gold prices have risen while that of oil has slumped due to the coronavirus...![Oil tanker [Jon Olav Eikenes/Flickr]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2012_10-4-oil-tanker8699927352_fd3873b675_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
This week we saw comparisons of the price of a barrel of oil — $30 — with the price of an empty barrel, at around $33. This is the...
This week we have seen the first reported death of a refugee in the latest phase of the Syrian crisis, when a Syrian man was shot by Greek border...![Iraqis take medical precautions at the Bashmaq border crossing with Iran to prevent the spread of coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq on 23 February 2020. [Fariq Faraj Mahmood - Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200223_2_40992614_52426037.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In 1918, the Spanish flu pandemic killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. The current coronavirus epidemic, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, has...
‘We have tried to expose the fact that there were people who could have been killed as a result of foreign mercenaries being hired by the UAE,’ Hakan Camuz...
The situation in Idlib could be the greatest failure of the international community in human history, according to a member of the Turkish Presidency Security and Foreign Policy Council,...![Image of IKEA building [ Calvin Teo/Wikipedia]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2006_6_12-IKEA-building.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Swedish furniture and home goods retailer IKEA is being praised for defending a Muslim employee after a racist online customer’s review of its store in Aubonne, Switzerland, Daily Sabah...![Collapsed and damaged buildings after Russian warplanes hit residential areas in Idlib, Syria on 30 January 2020 [İzzeddin İdilbi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200130_2_40591811_51672740.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Last December, Robert Malley, president and CEO of the International Crisis Group, penned an article for the Foreign Affairs magazine, addressing the topic: “The Unwanted Wars: Why the Middle...![Turkish President and leader of Justice and Development (AK) Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, Turkey on 14 January 2020 [Arda Küçükkaya/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200114_2_40314903_51177253.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Following the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923, African affairs were regarded as a secondary issue in the new state’s foreign policy. Until relatively recently, that is, when...
Distinguished Libyan journalist and political analyst, Ashur Shamis, has spoken out on the Libyan Civil War and ceasefire in the country
Increasing tensions between Iran and the US have led to fears of a widening conflict in the Middle East, with energy market participants increasingly concerned that the fallout could...![Syrian refugees, arrive on the shores of Greek Islands in hopes to settle into Europe [File photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/news/europe/refugees-in-greece-to-reach-europe-07.jpg.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Turkey has announced that it is sending troops to Libya at a time when it is dealing with a new influx of refugees from Syria’s north-western province, Idlib. Millions...![Qatar Petroleum (QP), the world's largest oil producer, announced Tuesday that it has raised its LNG capacity from 77 million to 100 million tons a year. Qatar Petroleum Chief Executive Officer Saad Sharida Al Kaabi told a news conference in Doha on 4 July, 2017 [Mohamed Farag/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_07_04-Qatar-Petroleum20170704_2_24540733_23724959.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Energy has always played a crucial geopolitical role. Natural gas is a part of this important sector; with the switch from coal-to-gas, the demand for natural gas jumped by...![Emeritus Professor of Political Science and a member of the Graduate Faculties of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Stephen Eric Bronner [Youtube]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/interview.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
An interview with Professor Stephen Bronner, by Elif Selin Calik![President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) shakes hands with the chairman of Presidential Council of Libya, Fayez Al-Sarraj (L) as they pose for a photo at Dolmabahce Office in Istanbul, Turkey on 27 November 2019. [Mustafa Kamacı - Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/20191127_2_39548908_49860588.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On 27 November, Turkey and Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) signed a bilateral memorandum of understanding (MoU). Turkey intended to exercise its rights under international law and the...![Turkish military ship in Antalya, Turkey on 27 February 2019 [Mustafa Çiftçi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/20190227_2_35167274_42095989.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In collaboration with major industrial countries like the US and France, several Mediterranean countries have discovered oil and gas resources under the sea bed. The aim of these countries...![President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets British Prime Minister Boris Johnson within the 74th session of UN General Assembly in New York, United States on 24 September 2019. [Turkish Presidency / Murat Cetinmuhurdar - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190924_2_38379808_47881806.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
After being vetoed twice for membership of the European Union in 1967, the United Kingdom was finally admitted at the third attempt in 1973. Today, the British government is...![A photo taken from Turkey's Sanliurfa province, shows smoke rising after Turkish Armed Forces hit targets in Rasulayn town as part of the Turkey's Operation Peace Spring on October 13, 2019 [Arif Hüdaverdi Yaman/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191013_2_38718746_48442962.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The reaction of Western countries to Turkey’s fight against terrorists groups in north-eastern Syria requires the international community to have a serious rethink about Article 5 of the 1949...
Last week saw the anniversary — on 3 October — of the tragic drowning of more than 300 migrants when their overcrowded vessel capsized off the coast of Italy....
Tim Marshall served a long stint as diplomatic editor of Britain’s Sky News. In his book “Prisoners of Geography”, he argues that topography imprisons leaders. “This was true of...