Turkey’s presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalı has announced that “Biden’s transition team is eager to develop a good relationship with Ankara.” But in “an unusual snub for a powerful NATO ally,” Biden has (at the time of this writing) flatly ignored Erdogan’s request for a phone call. The Trump administration placed sanctions on Turkey over its […]
Erdogan vows to ’employ his country’s military to secure Turkey’s place in a rebalanced new world order’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is now positioning the Turkish military as the regional backbone of a “rebalanced new world order.” This news comes after Turkey took charge of NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force, which followed Turkey’s confirmation of an arms deal with Russia. Turkey should have been ejected from NATO long ago; […]
Turkey’s Defense Minister: “We are at the same point in Cyprus that we were in 1974…we will do what we did then”
Turkey has occupied northern Cyprus since 1974, ostensibly to protect the Turkish Muslims there from attacks from the Greek Orthodox Christians. Those attacks were not, of course, really happening. And now Turkey’s Defense Minister, Hulusi Akar, has threatened that Turkey may renew its jihad in Cyprus: “We are at the same point in Cyprus that […]
Turkey vows to “fight terrorism until the end”
“Turkish national defense minister on Saturday reiterated that Turkey continues its fight against terrorism.” By this, he does not mean Islamic jihad; he means those groups and people that Turkey deems to be “terrorist,” such as Israel, evangelical Christians, Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units. Unfortunately, many Western counterterror analysts will […]