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[OPINION] Erdoğan’s personal troubles complicate Turkey-US ties

by Abdullah Bozkurt The number one concern for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan while meeting with visiting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Feb. 15...

[OPINION] Erdoğan saves jihadist network: the Vasat terror group in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt One of the most devastating impacts the Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has inflicted on the national security of Turkey is...

[OPINION] Turkey raising a new army against NATO

Abdullah Bozkurt Against the backdrop of a dangerously expansionist and aggressive mood in Turkey with nationalist euphoria and religious zealotry reaching a new peak, the...

[OPINION] Hamid Abdullah Al-Ahmar: Erdoğan’s errand boy in the Arab world

by Abdullah Bozkurt Sheikh Hamid Abdullah Al-Ahmar, an Arab politician and millionaire businessman whose family led the Muslim Brotherhood network in Yemen, has been tapped...

[OPINION] The case of Turkish journalist İbrahim Karayeğen under torture and abuse

Abdullah Bozkurt Among all the 250 journalists who are currently languishing behind bars in Turkey under abusive conditions in which torture and ill-treatment are widely...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s creeping radical Islamist projects in Macedonia

by Abdullah Bozkurt Macedonia has been targeted by a hostile Islamist agenda discreetly pursued by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has...

[OPINION] Erdoğan has ruined the lives of 1 million people in Turkey

by Abdullah Bozkurt The criminal investigations, prosecutions and trials in politically motivated cases on trumped-up terrorism and coup plotting charges have ruined the lives of...

Erdoğan overlooks challenges to Turkish military capability

Abdullah Bozkurt The anti-Western euphoria in the current Turkish government, which has gone well beyond posturing and definitely moved into a new phase with actual...

[OPINION] Erdoğan is eroding Turkey’s credibility in the world

by Abdullah Bozkurt The flip-flopping and dizzying speed of Turkey’s foreign policy that has been conducted according to the whims and emotions of one man,...

[OPINION] Turkey tries to undermine the Council of Europe

by Abdullah Bozkurt The regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which has locked up almost 600 lawyers, was apparently irritated when the Parliamentary Assembly...

[OPINION] Turkey’s Erdoğan continues to fuel war in Libya

Abdullah Bozkurt With yet another Libyan-bound ship carrying explosives from Turkey seized by the Greek coast guard on Jan. 10, 2018, the Islamist government of...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s personal war game in Syria using the Turkish military

by Abdullah Bozkurt US military planners in the Department of Defense long ago made a calculated decision to not trust the regime of Turkish President...

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