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Assad threatens to destroy Tel Aviv if attacked by Turkey or NATO

War tensions between Turkey, NATO and Syria shot up again with the announcement from Ankara that… Continue reading

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Erdogan headed for significant Win as Turks cast Votes

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is expected to return to office for a third consecutive term as Turks began voting… Continue reading

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Turkey’s Election: Last Exit Before Toll

Because Turkey’s election Sunday is of such huge importance, not only for Turkey but for the region as a whole, Western interests, Israel, and… Continue reading

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Turkey ditches Assad, calls off participation in Gaza flotilla

Syrian President Bashar Assad’s Arab and Muslimsupport is melting fast. Debkafile’s intelligence sources report that his second most… Continue reading

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Nuclear and Gas Pipeline Woes Trouble Russian-Turkish Energy Partnership

The nuclear disaster in Japan has further complicated the complex energy relationship between Turkey and Russia… Continue reading

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Arab revolts and Turkey’s new ‘old Kemalists’

The Arab revolts of 2011 awakened interest in the Turkish model, exemplifying an Islamist-rooted party building a liberal democracy… Continue reading

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Turkey and the Middle Eastern Revolts: Democracy or Islamism?

Turkey’s leaders have embraced the popular revolts in Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Abdullah Gül publicly urging Egyptian… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Turkey Used as Base to Transport Terrorism Suspects

Turkey allowed the US to use its airbase at Incirlik in southern Turkey as part of the “extraordinary rendition” programme to take suspected terrorists to Guantánamo Bay… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: US-Turkey Relations Improve

The tone of the relationship has been improving since PM Erdogan’s visit to Washington last June, but Iraq continues to dominate our agenda… Continue reading

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Turkey’s Government: Cheer Egypt’s Demonstrations, Suppress Those at Home

Labor unions marched to protest the reduction of workers’ rights in Ankara. The government declared the demonstration illegal, gassed demonstrators, and police attacked… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks Scandal Deprives Turkey’s Ruling Party of its Cherished American Cover

U.S. power still matters in Turkey, and the revelation that the AKP does not enjoy universal American support is unwelcome news for the ruling party. The perception that it enjoyed full U.S. support was instrumental in the… Continue reading

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Chinese Warplanes In Turkey and Iran

The arrival of a new Middle East player startled Washington and Jerusalem: debkafile’s military sources disclose that when Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan met Syrian president Bashar Assad in Damascus Monday, Oct. 11, they talked less about the Kurdish question and more about… Continue reading

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Turkey in Cyprus vs. Israel in Gaza

Ankara’s recent condemnation of Jerusalem is hypocritical. Turkish policy toward Israel, historically warm and only a decade ago approaching full alliance, has cooled since Islamists… Continue reading

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The AKP’s Hamas Policy: How Turkey Turned

Why are the Turks turning anti-Western? Why are Turks viewing themselves in contrast to the West – meaning the United States across the world – Israel in the Middle East and Europe within… Continue reading

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Israel Suspects Turkey is Betraying its Military Secrets to Iran

Ankara distanced itself further from the West last week by signing a pact with Iran for the exchange of intelligence in real time in their offensives against… Continue reading

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British Prime Minister David Cameron and Western Suicide in Turkey

British Prime Minister David Cameron’s July 27 speech in Turkey will not live on in history. But it should, as an example of the decline of Western diplomacy, of suicide by Political Correctness… Continue reading

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The IHH Violence Against the IDF Was Similar as the Violence Against the Egyptian Security Forces

A comparison of the IHH violence directed against the IDF during the Mavi Marmara flotilla and the violence employed by the Lifeline 3 activists against the Egyptian security forces shows many similarities… Continue reading

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Israel Won’t Apologize For Defending Its Citizens

Israel will never apologize for defending its citizens. Of course, we regret the loss of life, but it was not the Israeli side that initiated the violence… Continue reading

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An Open Letter to Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“You have accomplished in eight years what no other contemporary Turkish politician could achieve. You have successfully entered the final stages in your efforts to transform Atatürk’s Turkey into an Arab-style Islamist dictatorship… Continue reading

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Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan More Determined Than Ever to Provoke a Showdown With Israel

If Israelis in high official places were still slow to get the message of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s implacable anti-Israel campaign, they only had to listen… Continue reading

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Retired Turkish Ambassadors Statement: Erdogan is Caught Up in Neo-Ottomanism

Retired ambassadors hit back at Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s criticisms of Foreign Ministry diplomats, saying no diplomat deserves to be the target of such uninformed speech… Continue reading

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German Left-Wing Activists in a Boat with Turkish Islamists and Right-Wing Extremists

All of a sudden members of the Bundestag [German parliament] from “Die Linke” [German left-wing] appear on a ship that had taken course towards Gaza. They said they wanted to… Continue reading

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The Violent Intentions of the IHH Operatives On Board the Mavi Marmara

The violence employed against the IDF on board the ship was not spontaneous but rather a premeditated operation. The operation was organized beforehand by IHH and implemented by a hard core of… Continue reading

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Erdogan’s Turkey, Islamism and the Ottoman Empire

Under the Islamist Erdogan government, Turkey can no longer be considered an ally of Israel or the West… Continue reading

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Iran’s Gaza-bound ships ready for clash with Israel

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad assured Turkish leaders that the vessels due to enter the disputed waters within days will not shrink from a head-on clash with Israel’s Navy and Air Force exclusion forces… Continue reading