Erdogan’s offer to mediate between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders reflects Ankara’s growing fears over the conundrums it could find itself in should war materialize.
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Heysem Topalca, a fugitive whose name was implicated in some of the most controversial chapters of Ankara’s Syria policy due to his alleged role in the Turkish intelligence operations in Syria, has died, taking all his secrets to the grave.
Veiled Counter-Balancing: The Peacekeeping ‘Arrangement’ Between Turkey and Russia in Karabakh
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 17 Issue: 181
Baku military parade, December 10 (Source: Getty Images)
In the wake of Azerbaijan’s successful offensive against the dug-in Armenian forces in Karabakh and surrounding Azerbaijani districts, the defense ministers of Turkey and Russia, General (ret.) Hulusi Akar and General Sergei Shoigu, respectively, met on November 11 and penned a memorandum of understanding to broker the ceasefire process in the war-torn region. According to the deal, Ankara and Moscow have, in principle, agreed to establish a joint peace-monitoring headquarters. The Russian foreign policy community has been extremely uneasy to see the Turkish Armed Forces suddenly operating in the South Caucasus, once considered Moscow’s undisputed hinterland (Milliyet, December 3).
What pushes Turkey and Iran to ride out the storm of poem?
Sinem Cengiz
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There is sometimes a tendency among analysts to overstate the significance of relationships between countries and their contribution to respective national interests when the reality is seemingly different. On the contrary, there is also a tendency to exaggerate the tensions between countries. In particular, Turkey’s foreign relations are read through these angles, which in fact leads to a misreading of the reality beneath the surface.
Last week, a diplomatic spat happened between Ankara and Tehran due to a poem issue, and then within a few days, things got back on track. When reading Turkish-Iranian relations, which is one of the most complicated and fragile ones in the region, it is always crucial to check what’s actually the status of the relationship both, above and the below the surface.