Turkish – Russian relations

US will not sell F-35 fighter jets to Turkey after its Russian missile defense purchase – Trump 16 Jul, 2019 President Donald Trump has said Washington...

12 Jul, 2019 Turkey has received the first shipment of S-400 air defense missile system equipment from Moscow, defying pressure from Washington to scrap the...

Nov. 19, 2018

S-400 issue from a historical perspective By BORA BAYRAKTAR March 08 2019 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has declared that the Russian S-400 air defense system will...

16 Οctobre 2018 La question du jour ne cessera de hanter les historiens les décennies à venir. Quel rôle a joué le président turc Reçep Tayip...

27.04.2018 Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Friday that if Turkey gets a fair proposal from NATO allies on US-made Patriot or other air defense...

By Doctor William Mallinson* Athens, 7 April 2018 Ever since at least 1791, when English Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger denounced Russia for seeking to...

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.

So many would like this to happen – to see Turkey go, to leave NATO, to break its psychological, political and economic dependency on the West. Now that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his allies are quarreling with the United States and the EU, there is suddenly great hope that Turkey may thoroughly re-think its position in the world, strengthen its ties

German parliamentarians prepare to ask also for sanctions against USA, Britain and France. According to those parliamentarians, by implementing the Chaos Strategy in the Middle East, in order to “promote democracy”, as they kept saying, Washington, London and Paris are directly responsible for the refugee crisis, the terror attacks and the whole instability which landed now in Turkey.