The government insists that the judiciary is independent and just carrying out its duties despite no one from the governing coalition ever falling under scrutiny

Buoyed by a string of recent successes, the Turkish president wants to capitalise on a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity to finally put to rest a longstanding battle with the PKK

Ankara had a role to play in the fall of the Assad regime, though the full details are yet to emerge. It will have a role in its state-building too, albeit with some big difficulties to overcome first

After years of relative quiet, renewed fighting in Syria could be the new US administration's first major foreign policy challenge

Ankara and Damascus have been at daggers drawn for years but now have reasons to talk. Syria wants Turkish troops gone, while Turkey wants its Syrian refugees to go home. Let the bargaining begin.

After Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's recent comments about military action, the two states seem to have hit a new nadir. Yet it wasn't always so, and some suggest there is no fire with the smoke

Muhammad Shia al-Sudani is hoping to help Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syria's Bashar al-Assad mend fences, yet it is precisely the issue of fence security that means he will struggle.

The president's efforts to tame rampant inflation have only scratched the surface of its economic problems, which require deeper and more sustainable reform. So far, that appears unattainable.

As NATO allies, US-Turkey relations should be good, but after Turkey asked to join South Africa's genocide case in the ICJ against Israel, scheduling is suddenly tight.