One Abu Shaheed, a French jihadist interviewed by the weekly Paris-Match in March, claims that there are “at least” 500 recruits from France alone fighting with ISIS, which is merely one of the jihadist factions in Syria. It has lately been involved in an internecine...
The court has overturned the articles in the law regarding new competences conferred to the justice minister. The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) had filed an appeal to the Court March 2, arguing that the law gave extraordinary authority to the...
According to local reports military activity between the village of Üzümcü and Şine mountain on the Hakkari-Çukurca road has increased markedly over the past week. Locals fear that the Turkish military could be preparing for a large-scale operation and hope to prevent...
The commissioner was speaking on April 10 during the 74th EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee at the European Parliament in Brussels, where EU Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu also participated. “As commissioner for enlargement, I must admit that events over the past...
At the time the US administration said that Assad had crossed a red line and, with the support of other western powers, Obama prepared a major military assault against the Butcher of Damascus until the US president suddenly backed down and settled for the compromise...
The complex civil war in Syria and antagonism between the Kurdish Democratic Union Party and a fragmented Kurdish political spectrum generate many questions as to the future of these Kurdish areas in Syria. In the case of Turkey, old and new internal and regional...
