Day by day, the American-Iranian confrontation over the case of the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya 1 (formerly Grace 1) in the Mediterranean is evolving into a geopolitical crisis that is spreading to greater geographical latitudes and longitudes, following its movement towards the Eastern Mediterranean and involving the EU and Russia. The crisis is […]
Turkey’s exclusion from the F-35 fighter jet program was due to Ankara’s purchase of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missiles. The Turkish Foreign Ministry countered that: “This unilateral measure goes against the spirit of the alliance and is not based on legitimate reasons (…). The exclusion of Turkey, one of the partners in the F-35 program, is unjust.” The American […]
The upcoming elections will inevitably occupy the party headquarters and monopolize the news. However, the prospect of forming a stable government does not only concern the party headquarters. It primarily concerns the country itself. Let us not forget that the threat of Turkey, a country that is prone to revisionism, remains. The Turkish Defense Minister warned that Ankara […]
What has been happening in recent weeks and especially in the last twenty-four hours around the Chinese communications giant, Huawei, is truly a highly critical conflict that is a stark example of how the game is now played on the international chessboard. It may not be played in the traditional way of arming, but it is just as tough […]
Seventeen years have passed since the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, when 19 hijackers hijacked four passenger jets and crashed three of them into the same number of iconic buildings. It was the first time the United States had been attacked by a foreign country on its continental soil. The deadly terrorist attack killed nearly […]
Summary: Although the recent and newfound rapport between Trump and the EU is a welcome respite from the current rot in the transatlantic relationship, it is unlikely to be a long-lasting feature as fundamental issues still divide Washington and Brussels. The remarkably cordial tone between President Trump and EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker during [...]
Capping an accumulation of mutual grievances, US sanctions on Turkey over its refusal to release an American evangelical pastor suspected of involvement in the July 2016 coup attempt are accelerating the deterioration of Turkey's economy and threatening bilateral security cooperation and NATO cohesion. Relations between Turkey and the United States – two NATO allies and […]
Flags of Turkey and the US via Wikipedia, BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 938, September 3, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The present Turkish-American diplomatic crisis is fundamentally different from other such crises in 1964 or 1975. Turkish public sentiment in the 1960s and 1970s was largely pro-American (and anti-Soviet). Today, 79% of Turks have an unfavorable opinion [...]
Prelude… The noise surrounding the tension in US-Turkish relations still doesn’t seem to be calming down, and as everything indicates, the Washington-Erdogan conflict will last a long time and the series will have many episodes. In the midst of this chaos came the positive development of the release of the two Greek soldiers by Erdogan, […]
ANDREW PHILIP HUNTER: Well, good morning, everyone, and thank you very much for joining us for today's event on the US arms transfer policy. We're very excited to have Ambassador Tina Kaidanow with us to give us some remarks on that and a really stellar panel after that. And I'm going to begin, as we […]
