Mike Pompeo in Greece amid tensions with Turkey over gas reserves Crisis triggered by discovery of gas reserves in Mediterranean has upset uneasy relationship between geopolitical rivals Greek warships take part in a military exercise in the eastern Mediterranean sea in August. Against a backdrop of rising tensions with Ankara, Athens has announced it […]
Celebration for the 2500 years from the Battle of Salamis On 20 September 2020 organized by the World Hellenic Diaspora: a project of the Hellenic Cultural Center of the Southwest and its Member Organizations and the General Secretariat for Public Diplomacy and Greeks Abroad of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Athens, Greece Remarks by Mr. Dimitris N. Iliopoulos, Ambassador ret., […]
Abbas welcomes Hagia Sophia move July 27, 2020 at 12:35 pm People visit the Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia) on 17 July 2020. [Şebnem Coşkun – Anadolu Agency] July 27, 2020 at 12:35 pm Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday to express his pleasure that Hagia Sophia has been […]
Turkey revisits secret Suga navy plot to provoke Greece, raising specter of clashes August 19, 2020 Abdullah Bozkurt Turkish navy special operations forces team SAT is seen in a military excersize during a port visit to Malta in July 2020. Abdullah Bozkurt Turkey appears to have doubled back to a previously exposed secret plot called […]
The destruction of civilization, the other side of the Conqueror and conquest Ioannis Mpaltzois 30 Ιουλίου 2020 461 There are more mosques in Turkey than there are schools. To the existing 84,684 mosques, one more was added. Hagia Sophia became the 84,685th mosque in Turkey. In Istanbul, the number of mosques rose from 3,269 […]
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Prof. Taner Akçam ARTS & CULTURE INTERNATIONALOPINION CULTURE HAGIA SOPHIA Turkey’s Test of Civilization JULY 16, 2020 by The Armenian Mirror-Spectator By Prof. Taner Akçam Basically, the whole Hagia Sophia affair can be summed up with the phrases “improper” or “a shame.” But I think that the audience whom I am addressing do not possesses […]
Turkey’s Demographics Defy Erdoğan’s Designs By Burak Bekdil BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,636, July 10, 2020 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Only 12% of Turks say they trust Islamic clerics, and more and more young Turks are unhappy at religious school. As high a proportion as 60.5% of pro-Erdoğan youths say they would rather live in Switzerland […]
This report examines Russia’s military and diplomatic campaign in Syria, the largest and most significant Russian out-of-area operation since the end of the Cold War. Russia’s experience in Syria will significantly shape its military thinking, influence promotion and personnel decisions, impact research and development for its arms industry, and expand its influence in the Middle East and beyond for the foreseeable future.
BESA-By Irina Tsukerman: Turkey Is Building a Geopolitical Alliance Between Sunni and Shiite Islamists Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, photo via Office of the President of Russia BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,528, April 14, 2020 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The recent news about the involvement of Iranian diplomats in the murder of an Iranian dissident in […]