Turkish – Russian relations
Strategic Aims Behind The War On Armenia
September 29, 2020
On Sunday Ilham Aliyev, the longtime dictator of Azerbaijan, launched a war on the Armenian held Nagorno-Karabakh area. That he dared to...
Renewed Azerbaijan/Armenia conflict a new threat to Russia’s delicate balancing act...
28 Sep, 2020
Azerbaijan has never forgotten its 1990s humiliation at the hands of Armenia. Now stronger than its sworn enemy, and emboldened by Turkish...
How much does Erdogan’s ‘coercive diplomacy’ benefit Turkey?
If mishandled, Turkey’s threats of military action could trigger an uncontrolled escalation, leaving Ankara facing difficult choices.
By Semih Idiz
Aug 27, 2020
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
Will Erdogan’s Adventures Hurt Russian Soft Power?
By Costas Melakopides
July 24, 2020
While the Russian Federation is actively pursuing the cultivation of its Soft Power, the results, in the present cynical and...
Erdogan could not Islamize minds, so he is Islamizing stones instead’
Ezgi Başaran writes: French political scientist Professor Olivier Roy, who, since the mid-‘90s, has argued that the Islamist project has failed, says Atatürk’s secularism...
Une guerre gréco-turque est-elle possible ? Ses implications potentielles pour l’UE,...
Par Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Jul18, 2020
Dans un article précédent, nous avons discuté de la décision d'Ankara de transformer Sainte-Sophie en mosquée dans le contexte stratégique plus...
Is a Greek – Turkish War possible? Its potential implications for...
Βy Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
In a previous article we discussed the decision of Ankara to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque in the wider and changing...
Transformer Sainte-Sophie en mosquée: Une nouvelle crise en Méditerranée orientale
Par Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
12/07/2020
La décision du régime turc de faire de Sainte-Sophie, l'un des plus importants monuments de la chrétienté, une mosquée ne peut être...
Turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque: A new crisis in Eastern...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
The decision of the Turkish regime to make Hagia Sophia, one of the most important monuments of Christendom, a mosque can only...
‘US Believing It Can Buy S-400s from Ankara is Tragicomic’ –...
3.07.2020
Republican US Senator John Thune on 30 June suggested purchasing and removing the Turkish-owned Russian-built S-400s from Ankara, in a bid to break a...