Erdogan
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Biden and Erdogan are trapped in a double fantasy*
Why Washington and Ankara don’t get each other at all—and need each other anyway.
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Turkey is ready to normalize ties with France: Cavusoglu
Turkey is ready to normalize relations with France despite continued bilateral tensions over several issues, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Thursday, January 7.
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Turkey-West relations unlikely to improve under Biden: analyst
Without significant policy and behavioral changes from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey is likely to encounter further punitive measures from the West under the Biden administration, wrote Sinan Ciddi, associate professor of national security studies at Marine Corps University in Virginia.
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Turkey will drag out Demirtas case, former judge says
Talip Aydın, former head of department for human rights at the Turkish Ministry of Justice, said Turkey plans to drag out for years the case of imprisoned Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas. Aydin believes Turkey’s best institutional relations are with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is sure that there will be no serious consequences for his refusal to release Demirtas.
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My child is not a terrorist: Selahattin Demirtas's mother to Erdogan
Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas's mother Sadiye Demirtas has criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for deeming his son a “terrorist,” saying the renowned politician is held as a “hostage” in the prison.
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Turkey weighs attack on Syrian Kurdish town/ Sultan Al-Ultananj
Turkey has mobilized more forces in the vicinity of the town of Ain Issa in northern Syria, while the Free Syrian Army, an ally of Ankara, intensified its presence in that area amid an agreement between the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and Russia to ward off Turkey and its allies from the town.
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Is Turkey on course of foreign policy shift with pan-Turkist flavor? / Metin Gurcan
Ankara appears to be mulling a US-friendly foreign policy revision to counter Iran and Russia in the Caucasus and Black Sea regions, but such a shift will not be without geopolitical risks elsewhere.
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Turkey's Erdogan vows democratic and economic reforms in 2021
Turkey will introduce democratic and economic reforms in 2021, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, Reuters reported. He pledged 2021 would be “the year of democratic and economic reforms”.
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Ankara-Moscow talks will decide possible Turkey capture of Ain Issa
A Kurdish affairs analyst believes the possible Turkey attack on Ain Issa, a Kurdish city in northern Syria, and taking its control depends on negotiations between Ankara and Moscow.
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PKK remains thorn in side of Turkish-Iraqi relations / Fehim Tastekin
The Iraqi government needs Turkey to counterbalance Iran and help alleviate Baghdad's economic problems, but the Kurdish issue, which has long strained bilateral ties, might further snag progress in economic and strategic projects.
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Joe Biden would likely pressure Turkey to negotiate with PKK and Syrian Kurdish forces: analyst
It is possible that new US President Joe Biden will interact with Turkey and the Syrian Kurds and he would likely will ask Turkey to negotiate with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as well as the Syrian Kurdish-Arab forces known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)," Anthony Avice Du Buisson told KurdPress in an interview.
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Joe Biden government can mediate between Kurds and Turkey: representative
The head of the office of the Syrian Democratic Council in the United States, requested the continued presence of the United States in Syria and announced the possibility of mediation by the newly-elected President Joe Biden government to resolve the Syrian Kurdish dispute with Ankara.
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Al-Kadhimi and Erdogan discuss strengthening economic cooperation
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara where they discussed strengthening economic co-operation between the two countries.
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Iraqi PM arrives in Turkey in first official visit since taking office
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi arrived in Turkey's capital Ankara on Thursday, December 17, for meetings with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkish officials, NRT reported.
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Turkey's AKP is governed by system of slavery: founding member
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is like a tribe set upon a system of enslavement, whose members fear their leader, preventing them from expressing their thoughts, founding AKP member Kemal Albayrak said on Monday.
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Joe Biden won't stay silent over possible Turkey attack on Syrian Kurds: analyst
A Middle East analyst at Oxford University believes that if Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacks the Syrian Kurds again, Biden's verbal support for the Kurds will become a reality.
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Turkey using Syrians to ethnically cleanse Syrian border regions from Kurds - scholar
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is using predominantly Sunni Syrian refugees and rebel fighters to dilute ethnic populations at home and abroad in his favor, said Michael Rubin in a column for the National Interest on Monday.
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Donald Trump committed worst crime against Syrian Kurds: daily
US President Donald Trump was the cause of Turkey's attack on the Syrian Kurds in 2019 and 2018, which led to their ethnic cleansing by Turkey, the Independent daily wrote in an article.
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Analyst says possible EU sanctions on Turkey is ‘too little, too late’
European Union sanctions may be “too little, too late” to change Turkey’s direction, political analyst Salem Al Ketbi said in an article.
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"Erdogan says there is no Kurdish question in Turkey, calls Demirtas a "terrorist;
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared in a fiery speech on Wednesday, November 25 that there was "no Kurdish question in this country", and called on the judiciary to investigate those seeking the release of Kurdish political leader Selahattin Demirtas from prison, calling him a "terrorist".
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Arinc resigns from Turkey presidential council
Former Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc has resigned from the High Advisory Council of the Presidency amid a row with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over two high-profile prisoners, T24 news site reported on Tuesday.
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Erdogan blasts ex-deputy PM Arinc for condemning jailing of Kavala, Demirtas
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday slammed Presidential High Advisory Board member and former deputy prime minister Bulent Arinc over his remarks criticizing the jailing of philanthropist Osman Kavala and Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas.
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Turkish Kurds, foreigners like Syrian refugees - report
Dr. Yassin Duman, a member of the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University, warned that Turkish Kurds are being treated as a foreign social mass as much as Syrian refugees in the country.
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Will Erdogan's yo-yo game with the EU succeed in deluding the West again? / Yavuz Baydar
He is back at it again. Full of his customary surprises at each and every turn, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan displayed a sharp swing on Saturday, refreshing his long-lost love for his favorite punching bag, the EU.
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Erdogan says Turkey will not give up deep-rooted ties with Iran and Russia
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described Turkey's relations with Iran and Russia as deep-rooted and unavoidable and said Ankara would not give up the ties.
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Is Russia’s naval base in Sudan a signal to Turkey ... and Biden? / Anton Mardasov
Moscow is set to create a strategic foothold in Africa along vital shipping routes.
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Turkish parliament approves deployment of troops to Azerbaijan
Turkey’s parliament granted the government permission to deploy peacekeepers to ally Azerbaijan to monitor a cease-fire deal between the country and Armenia aiming to end the conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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Turkey prepares to send troops to Azerbaijan
Turkey’s presidency submitted a motion to parliament on Monday, November 16, to allow the government to deploy troops to Azerbaijan, state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
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Joe Biden is likely to be more pro-Kurds than Trump: academic
It is likely that the new-elect US President, Joe Biden, will be more pro-Kurdish than Donald Trump," Dr. Fabrice Balanche told the KurdPress.
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Image draws attention to length of Erdogan's stay in power
An image circulating on Turkish social media and messaging apps has drawn attention to the length of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s time in office in comparison to his U.S. counterparts.