BY: İbrahim Karagül* The terror corridor formed in Syria’s north is a plan to annihilate Turkey. As soon as it is completed, the Turkey front will be opened, an area spanning hundreds of kilometers will be [ More … ]
Speaking in eastern Turkey’s Malatya, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey remains determined to launch ‘new moves’ akin to its foray into northern Syria in August 2016. Referring to Daesh, he said the situation in [ More … ]
Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın on July 31 criticized recent statements by Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy of the anti-Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) coalition, which linked Turkey to terror groups in northwestern [ More … ]
BY: BURHANETTIN DURAN* There are hardly any countries in the world whose political agendas are as intense as Turkey’s. Such is the price it pays for being an active player in a turbulent, chaos-ridden region. [ More … ]
Inconsistent statements from the U.S. on retriving the weapons it is providing the YPG after operations end shows that the Obama administration’s policies still dominate Washington, which could further strain U.S.-Turkish ties U.S. Defense Secretary [ More … ]
BY: SAADET ORUÇ* The enmity towards Islam is the real root cause that leads to the attacks against Muslim such as the recent one at Finsbury Park The sentence, “In addition, Switzerland stated that the PKK [ More … ]
US Defense Secretary Mattis claims the weapons sent to the YPG militia will be retrieved once Daesh is defeated. The weapons sent to the PKK’s Syrian offshoot, the YPG, in Syria’s Raqqa, will be retrieved [ More … ]
BY: İLNUR ÇEVIK* They did not even wait until they captured the northern Syrian city of Raqqa from Daesh to turn on Turkey and Turkish interests in Syria… The Americans have been telling us tales that [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* Iran is sending ballistic missiles from country to country for the first time. It is hitting a target in Syria which it claims to be responsible for the Tehran attack- much like [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* – Who made Sisi and Kılıçdaroğlu say, ‘Your turn will also come, Turkey’? First say it is supporting terrorism, then they suppress it, and then, apply sanctions, push it into a corner [ More … ]
BY: Merve Şebnem Oruç* The U.S.-led coalition hit the Iran-backed regime forces three times in the last month near Tanf in Syria’s southeast. The first of the attacks took place on May 18, the day [ More … ]
The United States-led international coalition’s operation to recapture Raqqa from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) started on the night of June 2, Turkey’s prime minister has said, informing that Washington briefed [ More … ]
The U.S. will share details about the weapons delivered to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is predominantly led by the PKK terror organization’s Syrian branch, the YPG, in Raqqa, a senior U.S. military [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said late Thursday in a meeting with village headmen in the Presidential Complex that Turkey would not stay silent on a “terror state” being founded in northern Syria. Referring to [ More … ]
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