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The Greek-Turkish Standoff: A New Source of Instability in the Eastern Mediterranean
Since 2011, Eastern Mediterranean affairs have mainly been marked by instability due to the civil wars in Libya and Syria. Recently, a new source...
Gas Without a Fight: Is Turkey Ready to Go to War for Resources in the Mediterranean?
Active exploration of gas deposits in the Eastern Mediterranean has boosted the region’s importance for the local powers. Most European states depend on imports...
Iran- Turkey Partnership: A New Front in Libya
There is strategic consensus among political elites currently ruling the Islamic Republic of Iran and Turkey states. Despite of few turmoil, both states want...
Rediscovering the Sea: Comparing New Maritime Orientations of Turkey and Indonesia
Authors: Tufan Kutay Boran and Hadza Min Fadhli Robby*
Sea has once more become one of the most contested regions in the arena of international...
A war of Competing Narratives in Middle East
Narratives and metanarratives have a key role to play in determining and establishing the collective sense of history in a nation, as they fashion...
Conflict in the Mediterranean: What explains Turkey’s aggressive stance?
The Eastern European nations of Turkey, Greece and Cyprus have been embroiled in a battle of invectives over the exploration of gas deposits in...
The Turkey-Cyprus-Israel area and Greece
With a view to understanding how Erdogan's Turkey thinks strategically, we need to analyse the recent evolution of Turkey's political system, together with its...
Opportunism and July’s Armenian-Azerbaijani Flareup
By mid-July, within days of the latest flareup in fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a flurry of articles written by Azerbaijani think tank members...
War between Libyan groups and Syrian mercenaries erupts for the GNA wallet
A series of large-scale anti-government protests and local clashes in Libya’s Tripoli demonstrate huge problems of the Government of National Accord (GNA).
At the same...
Turkey’s Neo-Ottomanism is knocking on the door
Turkey’s resurgence as a center of Islamic values and its strategy of drifting away from Western influenced society is in the making. The neo-Ottomanism’s...