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How Turkey and Syria Found Common Cause Against the Kurds
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Turkey, a chief backer of Syria's post-Assad government, warned on Thursday that Damascus could be forced to use greater military force against Kurdish...
The Pakistan-Saudi-Turkey Axis: A Draft for a New Regional Order
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Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey have prepared a draft trilateral defense agreement after nearly a year of talks, according to Pakistan's defense production...
How Iran’s Protests Opened a New Kurdish Front
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Armed Kurdish separatist groups attempted to cross from Iraq into Iran, according to sources, in a move that suggests external actors are seeking...
Churchill’s Prophecy and Ankara’s Rise: Not Wasting the Crisis of 2026
Towards the end of World War II, in the mid-1940s, Winston Churchill uttered that significant sentence, perhaps pointing to the potential benefits to be...
Turkey Offers Support as Clashes Escalate in Aleppo
Fierce fighting erupted in Aleppo over the past week between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters. The clashes, described by Damascus as a “counter-terrorism”...
The Trump-Netanyahu Summit and Ankara: Is a Period of “Controlled Chaos” Beginning in the Middle East?
The Trump-Netanyahu summit in Washington in the final days of 2025 was not merely a courtesy visit for the region but the announcement of...
A first for Turkish aerospace: Spain buys 30 HURJET trainers
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Turkey and Spain have signed a landmark €2.6 billion defense deal for the Spanish Air Force to acquire 30 HURJET light training jets...
Turkey Detains Hundreds of IS Suspects After Deadly Police Clash
Turkish authorities detained 357 suspects in a nationwide operation against the Islamic State (IS) on Tuesday, the Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said. The arrests...
Deadly Raid in Turkey Kills Police and Islamic State Fighters
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Three Turkish police officers and six Islamic State militants were killed in an eight-hour shootout during a raid in northwest Turkey on Monday,...
Turkey, Hamas Discuss Moving Gaza Ceasefire to Next Phase
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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with Hamas political leadership in Ankara to discuss advancing the Gaza ceasefire into its second phase, as...