Turkey
Turkish DM: with shift from Afghanistan to Ukraine, NATO more active...
January 14, 2022
Turkey shares NATO’s values and responsibilities and has “successfully” fulfilled all the duties and missions entrusted to it since 1952, Defense Minister...
Turkey’s ‘Turkic world’ ambitions face reality check in Kazakhstan
Russia shows who has the muscle in Central Asia
By SINAN TAVSAN,
Jan 12, 2022
ISTANBUL -- Turkey's aspirations to lead the greater Turkic world and...
HDP demands action over torture and medical negligence in Turkish prisons
By Steve Sweeney
January 7, 2022
TURKEY’S opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) issued an urgent appeal for international support for sick prisoners being mistreated in Turkish jails...
Neutralization measures: Turkish, Ukrainian military intelligence chiefs “deepen and intensify cooperation”
By Rick Rozoff
Jan 5, 2021
“The other day, head of the domestic military intelligence, Brigadier General Kyrylo Budanov made a visit to the Republic...
Turkey converts another Hagia Sophia church into a mosque on Christmas...
Dec 26, 2021
Turkey has converted another Hagia Sophia church into a mosque. To stress yet another provocation towards the former Greek Orthodox community and...
Cyprus: Turkish Occupation and Unpunished Crimes Against Women and Children
By Uzay Bulut
December 21, 2021
On December 16 and 17, Democracy Today, an NGO that focuses on human rights issues, organized its annual international conference...
History on the Procrustean bed
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell
These days mark the 58th anniversary of the Turkish insurrection,...
Immigrant arrivals into Cyprus have increased by 40%
Largest percentage are asylum seekers coming from occupied side
Dec 15, 2021
The number of immigrants who arrived in the territory controlled by the Republic of...
How the U.S. Lost the “Great Game” in Central Asia
By Aidan O’Brien
November 8, 2021
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the U.S. power elite saw an opportunity to take over the oil-rich region considered key...
Putin Urges Armenia, Azerbaijan to Ease Tensions in Rare Meeting
Nov. 26, 2021
Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev to ease tensions and resolve disputes left...