Ayman Nour reveals details of Turkish officials’ meeting with the representatives of the Egyptian opposition channels in Turkey, denying any reports about the closure of or practicing pressure on the Egyptian opposition channels broadcasting from [ More … ]
Observers have noticed that there is a positive tone in Iran’s discourse toward Saudi Arabia that emerged over the past few days. This came in different statements by senior Iranian officials giving positive suggestions for [ More … ]
Russia’s Foreign Minister has stated that Egypt could take part in peace talks between the Syrian regime and rebels next month in Kazakhstan being organized by Moscow, Ankara, and Tehran. Sergey Lavrov said that Russian President Vladimir [ More … ]
BY: Nedret Ersanel* The rapprochement between Russia and Turkey means (for now) Syria-Iraq in the Middle East and U.S.-Russia-Turkey on a global scale. Turkey does not intend to bring the two powers against each other.But [ More … ]
Egypt’s policy shifts and closeness towards Russia have been traced recently by observers. After al-Sisi military coup in 2013 against Egypt’s democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi, the Egyptian-Russian relations have flourished on different levels. Motivated [ More … ]
By: Dr. SADIK ÜNAY* The new format of deeper and comprehensive Turkish-Russian cooperation after Aug. 9 will include added military and geostrategic elements President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s historic visit to St. Petersburg on Aug. 9 [ More … ]
BY: FAHRETTIN ALTUN* Turkish-Russian relations can simply be defined as the normalization of relations and rapprochement between two states after the downing of the Russian jet in Turkey This week, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit [ More … ]
The Al-Riyadh Saudi newspaper published, on Wednesday 10, a mocking cartoon criticizing Erdogan’s recent attempts to improve the Turkish-Russian relations by modifying his discourse with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The cynical drawing showed Erdogan as [ More … ]
– Berlin hopes normalization of ties between Ankara and Moscow would accelerate peace efforts in Syria – Germany has voiced support for rapprochement between Turkey and Russia following the nine-month strain in ties after the [ More … ]
During the last month, Turkey has maneuvered to end damaging foreign policy disputes with Israel and Russia, but Egypt and Syria will be tougher nuts for Ankara to crack in its drive for regional rapprochement, [ More … ]
Al-Araby al-Jadeed has published an exclusive report citing Egyptian diplomatic sources that the former British PM and the Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair is working with Israeli and Egyptian officials to secure a summit between [ More … ]
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