A new Gaza: Turkey’s border policy in northern Syria
Source:European Council on Foreign Relations Date:29May2020
The title doesn’t do justice to this comprehensive account of Turkey’s involvement in Syria, and its real and imaginery reasons. Turkey now controls a long stretch of Syrian territory
Israeli military says Iran is slowly pulling out of Syria
Source:Yahoo News Date:23May2020
If true, this would be very good news for Turkey’s objectives in Syria The Israeli military described the withdrawal as “a backward movement from various locations to other locations
Coronavirus in Syria: Bashar al-Assad warns of catastrophe if cases jump
Source:Irish Times Date:06May2020
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has warned that the war-ravaged country could face catastrophe if coronavirus cases exceed the capabilities of the debilitated healthcare system. Arguing
LAST MINUTE: Disaster in Afrin
Source:Yahoo News Date:28Apr2020
A fuel tanker exploded Tuesday in an attack on a northern Syrian town controlled by Turkish-backed opposition fighters, killing at least 40 civilians, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said. The ministry
Turkey’s S-400 delay is about more than just the economy and COVID-19
Source:al Monitor Date:25Apr2020
Yet Turkey’s desperate need for hard currency to salvage its pandemic-hit economy is not the only factor at play. The delay is driven by at least three other factors: namely, Ankara’s shifting
Russia is about to face its biggest test yet in Syria
Source:The Independent Date:16Apr2020
Robert Fisk explains how Syria’s economic woes will test Putin’s resources, bringing in the Turkish angle, too. Turkey’s real problem, of which the Russians are acutely aware,
Coronavirus ‘disaster in the making’ in war-torn Syria
Source:Japan Times Date:13Apr2020
This news is of crucial importance to Turkey’s corona outbreak. A new wave of infections from Idlib could lethally prolong the epidemic. Experts accuse Damascus of minimizing its
How To Make Turkey Great Again – OpEd
Source:Eurasian Review Date:09Apr2020
An op-ed piece by a former diplomat which is suprrisnigly symphatheitc to Turkey. It addresses all the topics that distances the country from the Wst, clogging the domestic dynamics for
US-Turkish Relations Could Warm; Turkey Should Pledge No Russian Arms
Source:Breaking Defense Date:09Apr2020
This guy must know what he is talking about: Charles Wald, former deputy commander of U.S. European Command, is a distinguished fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of
Exclusive – Idlib Truce and Fear of Coronavirus Spreading in Syria’s Quagmire
Source:Asharq al Awsat Date:04Apr2020
The regime, Idlib factions and the autonomous Kurdish administration, have imposed curfews in areas under their control and suspended fighting as a preventive measure against the coronavirus.