While a number of news websites have republished pro-government narrative on the alleged shooting of terrorists in a gun battle between security forces and a “militant hideout”, some activists suggested that it was just a [ More … ]
Lufthansa and British Airways canceled flights to Cairo over the weekend, citing security concerns. Although they were reticent with details, the situation in Egypt, and particularly in North Sinai, is indeed unstable. The airlines’ decisions [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay Those who have had no intentions regarding peace while thousands of truckloads of arms have been supplied for years to an organization on Turkey’s border, whose hostility toward Turkey is blatant, and [ 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 … ]
Kuwait has expelled Iranian diplomats and closed military, culture and trade missions on its soil following the conviction of ‘terror cell’ allegedly linked to Tehran. Kuwait ordered the expulsion of around 15 Iranian diplomats on [ More … ]
BY: F. William Engdahl* There is a hidden thin red thread connecting the recent US Congress’ sanctions against Iran and now the Russian Federation, with the decision of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies to sanction [ More … ]
Turkey will back Qatar in its diplomatic row with its Gulf neighbours, as President Erdogan urges Saudi Arabia to show restraint. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he does not believe Qatar does not [ More … ]
Women were among scores killed by al-Qaeda militants in Somalia, which included close-quarter slaughter and beheading by al-Shabab militants. Al-Shabab militants stormed a military base in Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland, leaving 70 dead and [ More … ]
Qatar said it had been deliberately targeted ahead of Trump’s visit to the region Qatar says it’s the subject of an ‘orchestrated campaign’ to tarnish the image of the emirate, following a series of negative [ More … ]
A range of bilateral and regional issues, with a particular focus on Syria, Iran and Yemen, were discussed by Saudi King Salman and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah on Sunday. They [ More … ]
Charges include assisting with jailbreak, sheltering fugitives, making bombs Bahraini authorities have arrested 20 people suspected of involvement in “terrorist” activity, according to the Bahraini Interior Ministry. Those arrested included four women who had allegedly [ More … ]
By: İbrahim Karagül* It’s so strange. Almost all of the countries that have conducted operations on Turkey have started to face similar problems. Germany, which has been protecting and provoking everybody who has been conducting operations [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* Turkey is being confronted with a multilateral, multi-front, multinational, very complicated attack wave. We had seen no threat, no attack like this since the foundation of the Republic. There never has been a [ More … ]
BY: ÇETİNER ÇETİN Turkey has been facing serious attacks by PKK and Daesh terror organizations for the past 14 months. This spiral started with an attack on a tourist group in Istanbul’s Sultanahmet Square last year. [ More … ]
BY: TAHA MELI ARVAS* It is difficult to write a finance column in times of great tragedy and so I would like to preface with some thoughts on the attack that took place on New Year’s [ More … ]
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