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Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has thrown Sweden and Finland's potential NATO membership into doubt, just as both countries are on the cusp of applying to join the alliance...
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May 3, 2022
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Ahmed Asmar
The US – and most of the western governments – stance on the issue of the Armenian tragedy of 1915 was the last in a series of western positions...
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May 1, 2022
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Yvonne Ridley
I read with some incredulity that a former three-star general in the Afghan National Army is planning to launch a new war against the ruling Taliban eight months after...
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Turkiye could acquire the second part of the S-400 air defence system from Russia, the head of the country's top defence body said late Tuesday and Turkish national broadcaster,...
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Some NATO members want the war in Ukraine to continue for Russia to get weaker, Turkiye's Foreign Minister said Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. According to the report, Turkiye's...
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NATO as an organisation and through its thirty individual members has been doing its utmost to help Ukraine against Russia's invasion ever since Moscow launched its attack in February....
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Canada may move to lift its ban on arms exports to Turkey after the UK's decision to do so, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said, as the war...
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The Biden administration has stated in congressional correspondence that the potential sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkiye would serve US interests and bolster NATO unity, according to a...
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April 7, 2022
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Osama Saad
What is important is not how we die, but how we live. This well-known maxim is embodied in the people when they persist in resistance, unaware of the magnitude...
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Ukraine received almost 30 times as much defence industry equipment from Turkey in the first quarter as it did a year earlier, while it prepared for and fought against...
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April 1, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Much has been said and written about media bias and double standards in the West's response to the Russia-Ukraine war, when compared with other wars and military conflicts across...
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UAE Energy Chief has doubled down on OPEC's alliance with Russia and insists that Moscow will always be part of the inter-governmental organisation. Abu-Dhabi's Energy Minister, Suhail Al-Mazrouei, said...
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The High Follow-up Committee of the National Islamic Factions condemned yesterday the "normalisation summit" that brought the foreign ministers of Israel and Arab states together in the Negev. Israeli...
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March 25, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
As the first conflict to take place in the era of popular cancel culture, the widespread social media backlash against Russia's invasion of Ukraine last month and ongoing military...
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March 10, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
A fortnight into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the advance of the "special operation" is not going as rapidly or easy as the Kremlin thought it would. While Russian forces...
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NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, will meet Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, on Friday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Stoltenberg will visit Antalya on the Mediterranean...
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Russia's Ambassador to Iran has urged local media not to describe his country's war against Ukraine as an "invasion", Anadolu News Agency reports. At a news conference in Tehran...
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The US has been trying to tempt Venezuela into increasing its oil production, but President Nicolas Maduro insists on standing by his traditional ally and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin....
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March 9, 2022
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Omar Kosh
Turkish politicians waited for several days before describing the events in Ukraine as a "state of war", after first referring to it as the Russian invasion. Russia itself, meanwhile,...
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March 2, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
The announcement this week of the constitutional amendment enabling Belarus to host Russian nuclear weapons following a disputed referendum, could see the country having weapons of mass destruction on...
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President Tayyip Erdogan, on Monday, repeated that Turkey could not abandon its ties with Russia or Ukraine, amid Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, adding Ankara would implement a pact on...
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The Arab League is meeting today to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine which is being labelled the biggest European conflict since the Second World War. At least 102...
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said, on Friday, that reaction from NATO and Western countries to Russia's assault on Ukraine had not been decisive, adding he hoped a NATO Summit...
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February 25, 2022
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Yvonne Ridley
In Scotland, when someone is on shaky ground or skating on thin ice they are said to be hanging by a "shoogly peg". That is exactly where Israel has...
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Kuwait's new defence ministry headquarters is to be designed and constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers and other US-based contractors following the approval of a proposal by the Biden...
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February 24, 2022
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Nasim Ahmed
I have been watching the Russia-Ukraine crises unfold while reading Ben Rhodes' new book, "After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made". It is riveting, essential reading...
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February 24, 2022
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Ukraine asks Turkey to ban Russian ships from its waterways
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February 23, 2022
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Admir Mulaosmanović
While the crisis in Ukraine is developing on the principle of carousel Hali Gali, many other geopolitical issues are gaining additional importance. In fact, through this crisis, the outlines...
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Following Russian President Vladimir Putin's recognition yesterday of two breakaway territories in Eastern Ukraine, the Syrian government and the de-facto Houthi-led government of Yemen have announced their support of...
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It seems that normalcy will soon come back to Europe, without a war, despite all the efforts the US and its Western allies have used to push Russia to...
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Since former KGB officer Vladimir Putin rose to power in Russia in 2000, he has dreamed of recreating the Soviet Union with its political and military influence, and rivalry...
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February 10, 2022
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Hazem Ayyad
Putin used his visit to Beijing on Friday, 4 February, to promote a new gas deal with China, estimated at $117.5 billion to escape the expected sanctions of NATO...