Category: Turkey
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Meets with Cyclists in Celebration of World Bicycle Day
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with cyclists on June 3 at The Grand National Assembly of Turkey in celebration of World Bicycle Day. [Note: The caption under the banner headline announcing 3 June World Bicycle Day in red letters, it reads “Choose a bicycle for a liveable world!”]
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Russian Thinktank Claims Ukraine Takeover First Move To Reintegrate Former USSR, Realign Geopolitical Spheres of Influence, late-March 2022
Although it was my endeavor to summarize as succinctly as possible, because of the length of the original piece, this post is somewhat lengthy. Hopefully, the length will not overwhelm the reader, nor the information, underwhelm! In my opinion, this article offers an opportunity to peer “behind the veil” and view, virtually, the thought processes…
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Turkish President Erdoğan Issues Paschal Greeting, mid-April 2022
I greet our Christian countrymen on the Paschal Holiday. Our country, where everyone is able to experience their own faith, culture, and tradition freely, and our nation, in which brotherhood and solidarity are interlocked one to the other with their feelings, continues its incomparable example for the whole world. From the past up to today,…
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Turkey Dances To a New Tune of Rapprochement with Israel as Tensions Grow with Iran
[Analytic summary: Although the author uses the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as the springboard for his article, its thrust is rather the predicament that Turkey is finding itself in by virtue of its apparent rapprochement with Israel and growing tension with Iran. This web of tri-lateral relations has become stickier by seeing…
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Turkey Continues Peace Initiative To End Russia-Ukraine Conflict, mid-March 2022
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on March 16, 2022, in Moscow to discuss finding a peaceful solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Prior to their discussions, the two foreign ministers held a press conference, at which Lavrov admitted that the countries had some differences of opinion, yet added that…
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An Emergency Summit Meeting of NATO in the Offing, mid-March 2022
Yiannis Palaiologos, a journalist for the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, reported on March 14, 2022, that an emergency NATO summit was being planned to coincide with the regular EU summit meeting that was scheduled to be held in Brussels the coming week. According to Palaiologos’ multi-sourced information, there would be an “overlap” whereby non-members of one…
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Foreign Jihadists and Mercenaries Said To Be Fighting Russians in Ukraine, early March 2022
A Greek report posted to The World News platform, based on Syrian News Agency (SANA) and Al Mayadeen satellite media network information, noted on March 9, 2022, that approximately 450 Salafist jihadists had left Idlib, Syria, and entered Ukraine for the purpose of fighting against Russian forces as well as pro-Russian non-combatants there. The jihadists…
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Book Review
Istanbul, City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World In his 360-page narrative history, the author, Thomas F. Madden, encapsulates the progression of events that eventually led to the establishment of the ancient Greek city of Constantinople through to its present representation in the form of the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul. Madden focuses on…
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NATO Secretary-General Thanks Turkish President for Efforts To Solve Ukraine Crisis
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg thanked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a telephone conversation on February 7, 2022, for his efforts toward finding a solution to the Russia-Ukraine crisis. To that end, Erdoğan had recently traveled to Ukraine to engage in discussions with his counterparts. According to the online report provided by the Turkish newspaper,…
The Dragon is Slain 