As we approach the end of the first year of what has been called the Arab Spring… Continue reading
A terrorist cell was recently exposed in Bahrain, which according to the Bahraini and… Continue reading
Wherever one looks, Turkey’s “zero problems with neighbors” policy is fading… Continue reading
The inability of the Baath regime in Damascus to bring the situation in the country under control has compelled Turkey to… Continue reading
For years the West has tried various tactics against Iran… Continue reading
Syrian Vice FM Miqdad flatly denying any Syrian role in the supply of weapons to Hizballah… Continue reading
The Islamists in Seidnaya responsible for the riots were part of a cadre of inmates sent to Iraq sometime after 2003 to fight with the insurgency… Continue reading
Syrian FM Muallim separately briefed Arab and European ambassadors on… Continue reading
The armies of Syria’s seven neighbors were already scrambling into position on standby on its borders for acts of… Continue reading
Clinton requested the US embassy in Berlin to inform the government of Germany about… Continue reading
Turkish-Israeli bilateral relations remain strained… Continue reading
The Turkish government has now responded with one of its largest counterinsurgency operations in years… Continue reading
Two of Syria’s most important minorities, the Alawites and the Druzes, fear that… Continue reading
Cyprus, an island near Turkey and Syria of roughly 1.3 million inhabitants, finds itself on the cusp of momentous change… Continue reading
I realized that there was a totally different and far more revealing way of approaching this issue… Continue reading
War tensions between Turkey, NATO and Syria shot up again with the announcement from Ankara that… Continue reading
The rapprochement between Turkey and Israel during the 1990s was primarily driven by Turkey’s secular elite… Continue reading
Tensions are not only mounting between Israel and Turkey since the release of the UN Palmer report… Continue reading
Since much of what I write about regional politics seems pessimistic… Continue reading
The turmoil in Syria threatens to deprive Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party of one of its most significant foreign policy achievements… Continue reading
Those who gave the order to murder our citizens, while hiding in Gaza, are no longer among the living… Continue reading
Israel’s concept of national security has always been based on two interrelated factors… Continue reading
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