Money earmarked for Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza will instead be redirected to programs within Israel’s borders. The US has cut additional aid to the Palestinians for programmes supporting conflict resolution with Israelis, adding [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held a meeting at the Russian leader’s presidential residence on Monday in the coastal city of Sochi. Erdoğan said on Monday that a joint [ More … ]
The agenda has already changed, but I want to write about the Tehran Summit and the Idlib issue. To begin with, let’s recall what happened at the Tehran Summit, which was attended by the presidents [ More … ]
Dozens of people have reportedly been killed in clashes and air raids around the Yemeni city of Hodeidah following the collapse of UN-sponsored peace talks between the internationally recognised government and Houthi rebels. Fears of escalation after UN-sponsored peace [ More … ]
We have entered the eighth year of the crisis in Syria and nowadays are in a situation in which it is acknowledged that the whole matter leads to the borders of Idlib. Now everyone is [ More … ]
Turkish president announces negotiations with Russia are ongoing to sideline ‘damaging’ US dollar in global trade. Turkey will pursue non-dollar transactions in trade and investment with other countries, its president said on Sunday, adding recent [ More … ]
Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s war have caused heavy civilian casualties at marketplaces, weddings and on fishing boats, some of which may amount to war crimes, United Nations human rights experts said [ More … ]
In international relations, a nation having enough power for a move does not mean that it can exercise that power as it wishes. Applying force will mobilize another power against it and in this case, [ More … ]
The US has condemned a decision by Turkey to increase tariffs on American cars, alcohol and tobacco imports, calling the move, step in the wrong direction. Turkey took the action in response to what it [ More … ]
Half a decade after ‘ Rabaa massacre ‘ the deadly crackdown of supporters of the first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi, human rights activists still call for probe. Five years ago, Egypt witnessed one of the [ More … ]
According to MEE Israeli journalist Edy Cohen has claimed that an Emirati pilot participated in the bombing of Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip three weeks ago during his training on Israeli air force F-35 [ More … ]
Vladimir Putin has repeatedly spoken of this possibility, subject to study, calculations, says Kremlin spokesman Russia is aiming towards using national currencies in trade with Turkey, instead of dollars or euros, said a Kremlin spokesman [ More … ]
The Saudi -led coalition has been criticised repeatedly for targeting civilian areas in their attacks in Yemen, but the images of children covered in blood still appear to have shocked the world. The Saudi -led [ More … ]
The rise in the exchange rate of the dollar, which has rallied in recent days, is ongoing. It is known that political reasons remain in the background of this rise. The last apparent reason is [ More … ]
The turbulence in relations with the U.S. may perhaps be viewed as a new difficulty in Turkey’s foreign policy. Hence, the majority see this as a link in the chain of problems that Turkey is [ More … ]
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