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Ice Silk Road: From Dream to reality
Authors: Mahdi Torabi*, Vahid Pourtajrishi
The history of Silk Road backs to thousands years ago. The aim of creation of this route was linking China...
Turkey Drifts Away from the West
Turkey has lost its soft power attractiveness due to its leadership’s increasing absolutism and failed foreign policy priorities. The “zero problems with neighbors” concept...
Truths behind Afrin and Eastern Ghouta
On January 30, the Turkish military launched an operation in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin district under a code-name “Olive Branch Operation.” The offensive was against...
The Crisis in Turkey-US Relations
The decades long partnership of the US with one of its major NATO allies i.e. Turkey has come under serious strain for some time...
Can Azerbaijan fall into the Turkish pitfall?
In July 1974, the 10,000-strong Turkish army, choosing the name of the gang leader Attila the Hun as the operation motto, invaded Cyprus and...
Why US not trustworthy ally for Turkey
Just weeks after failure of the ISIL terrorist group in Iraq and Syria, the United States announced that it is going to create a...
Why Turkey is Amicable to Iraqi Kurds Yet Fights with Syrian Kurds
Operation Olive Branch and the presidential election, 2019
The Turkish military Operation Olive Branch in Afrin has demonstrated that the problem of Syrian Kurdish militias...
How regional rivalries threaten to fuel the fire in Syria and Iran
Turkish allegations of Saudi, Emirati and Egyptian support for the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) threaten to turn Turkey’s military offensive against Syrian Kurds...
Why is the Vital Bond between Turkey and the U.S. in Jeopardy? Radical Muslim Cleric Fethullah Gülen is a Big Reason
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s acceptance of a plea deal recently gives the U.S. and Turkey the opportunity and imperative to leave their...
Iranian protests expose contours of leadership in the Muslim world
If week-long anti-government protests in Iran exposed the Islamic republic’s deep-seated economic and political problems, they also laid bare Saudi Arabia’s structural inability to...