When the Cold War ended in the 1990s, NATO lost the main reason for its existence: a clear and powerful opponent in the Soviet Union. It meant the…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken started a 10-nation regional tour of the Middle East in Turkey on 6 January, at a critical time for the region…

The assassination of top-level Hamas leaders has come alongside an intensification of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, where the destruction and human…

The twin crises in Gaza and Ukraine have turned the attention of the world away from another festering issue, that of Afghanistan, which has almost…

In the initial stages of the war in Ukraine, the impressive performance of the Ukrainian army and the failures of the Russian military created an…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s one day visit to Germany, the first since 2020, came at a time of important developments both in terms of…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine expedited NATO expansion plans. They should have been one of the most straightforward geopolitical consequences of the…

President Ersin Tatar of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus has ruled out returning to negotiations with Greek Cypriots until his side of the…

The Republic of Turkey was founded on 29 October 1923 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the leader of the victorious nationalists who brought the nation as…

The Israeli war on Gaza has come at a very inopportune time for Turkey.Relations between Turkey and Israel — which deteriorated sharply since the…