Ottoman Empire
Erdogan claims Greek “city of Thessaloniki” is part of Turkey
Jan 27, 2025
In his latest tirade, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan redefined the borders of his country that include “the city of Thessaloniki,” the...
Turkey plans to run Syria through a parallel structure, according to...
By Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm
Dec 18, 2024
The Turkish government has secretly launched a plan to establish a parallel shadow structure to govern Syria following the ouster...
The ‘Clean Break’ Doctrine: A Modern-Day Sykes-Picot Waging War and Havoc...
By Cynthia Chung
May 18, 2020
In 1996 a task force, led by Richard Perle, produced a policy document titled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy...
The Rising Danger of Neo-Ottoman Imperialism
By Dimitris Vlahoutsikos
In April, when Turkey celebrated the 100th anniversary of the National Parliament. The Daily Sabah newspaper published an article "The Dream of...
Erdogan’s Ottomania
By M. Hakan Yavuz
August 08, 2018
Turkey is entering a new era. Following a failed military coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2016, a...
Erdogan vows to recapture all lands once held by the Ottoman...
By Robert Spencer
Feb 21, 2018
"We say at every opportunity we have that Syria, Iraq and other places in the geography in our hearts...
Russia and Turkey: Consistency versus Unreliability
Modern Turkey is a strange amalgam of Western structures underpinned by Ottoman habits. Their various governments, whether military or not, are still heavily influenced by its huge military, and the contradiction between religion and secularism stills bedevils its development. Russia knows this, and knows that the bazaar mentality prevails in Turkish foreign policy. Rather than provoke a collapse of the shaky Turkish state, Russia prefers to weaken a neurotic NATO, and eventually bring Turkey into its sphere of influence, in the interests of Middle Eastern stability.
Visa – free travel and the “Kurdish problem”
By Robert Fisk
Just why is the Sultan of Turkey so impatient to get hold of that visa-free EU travel for his people to visit...
100 Years On: Sykes-Picot Agreement Still Haunts the Middle East
100 years ago, the terms of a secret deal dividing the Middle East between the UK and France were put forward. A century on,...