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  • Turkey’s Treasury, Finance Minister Berat Albayrak Resigns, Citing Health Issues

    Berat Albayrak, the son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, unexpectedly resigned as the country’s economy czar a day after the central bank governor was fired, igniting fresh political turmoil. The lira rallied as investors found relief in the upheaval.

  • For Turkey, the Libyan conflict and the eastern Mediterranean are inextricably linked

    The proxy confrontation playing out in Libya between these foreign powers has intensified a regional competition for resources in the waters of the eastern Mediterranean, where several overlapping claims for maritime jurisdiction by Turkey, Egypt, Greece, and Cyprus have fueled escalating tensions that have elicited mediation efforts by NATO and the European Union (EU).

  • For Turkey, the Libyan conflict and the eastern Mediterranean are inextricably linked

    Turkey’s claims in the eastern Mediterranean infringe on what Egypt, Greece, and Cyprus insist are their own maritime boundaries. In early August, Egypt and Greece signed an agreement designating an exclusive economic zone in the eastern Mediterranean between the two countries in an area containing promising oil and gas reserves. The Greek-Egyptian agreement is intended to nullify Turkey’s own maritime agreement with the GNA and to challenge Turkey’s growing regional ambitions.

  • Narcos Turkey

    The history of organised crime in Turkey dates to the Ottoman period, when it was characterised by the figure to the kabadayı – a villain who would engage in petty crime while adhering to an honour code and occasionally raising mobs at the behest of the political elite. A similar character is known as a louti in Iran, zughurt in Iraq, and baltaigyya in Egypt. The term kabadayı has fallen out of favour since The Godfather was released in Turkey, however, now baba or even reis, meaning ‘head’ or ‘chief’, are preferred.

  • In Syria, Russian jets strike Turkey-backed rebel training camp, rebels say

    Airstrikes on a training camp for Turkish-backed rebels in northwestern Syria killed or injured dozens of fighters Monday, according to a rebel spokesman, who estimated that more than 170 people died or were wounded. The strikes killed 35 fighters from the Sham Legion, a rebel group that falls under the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation, an umbrella organization for rebels in northwestern Syria, a member of the group said. Another 77 were wounded.

  • Trump administration slams NATO ally Turkey for test-firing S-400 air defense system

    The Trump administration on Friday slammed Turkey for taking a new step toward fielding a Russian-made air defense weapon. The U.S. complaint marked a deepening rift that threatens the future of a security relationship that has been central to the NATO military alliance for seven decades.

  • Saudi imports from Turkey rise in August despite informal boycott

    The value of imports from Turkey increased to 833.6 million riyals ($222.28 million) in August from 693.4 million in July, according to the Saudi General Authority for Statistics, making Turkey the ninth biggest exporter to Saudi Arabia. Saudi imports from Turkey were also up month on month in July.

  • Unofficial Saudi boycott costing Turkey billions

    The two countries are at loggerheads over a range of regional issues, from Libya and Syria to Qatar, a key Turkish ally that faces a three-year Saudi-led economic blockade. Wary of rattling foreign investors and amid suspicion that Turkey could lodge a complaint with the World Trade Organization, the Saudi government has sought to distance itself from the boycott.

  • Commentary: Why is Turkey absent from the table despite being in the field?

    “We should be in the field in order to be at the table.” So goes the motto that has underlain Turkey’s foreign interventions in recent years. The policy, which upholds Turkey’s involvement in conflicts beyond its borders to boost its diplomatic say in the region, has achieved partial success in Syria but is failing to bear fruit in Libya and the Caucasus.

  • A year on, Syria Kurds displaced by Turkey long for home

    The five-month-old baby girl of Wadha Sharmoukh has only lived in a tent because Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies captured her family's hometown in northern Syria from Kurdish forces a year ago. She was a born in a dusty camp crowded with Kurdish civilians who fled their towns and villages when Ankara's October 2019 offensive seized a 120-kilometre (70-mile) long strip of land on the Syrian side of its southern border.