Turkey

The ongoing U.S.-Turkey tensions, the result of political and economic disputes, have recently escalated further following Turkey's refusal to free the detained American pastor Andrew Brunson. Brunson is accused of being a spy who attempted to overthrow the government in the 2016...

Andrey Kortunov, the director general of the Russian International Affairs Council, surveyed Russia-Turkey relations in an article that he posted on the RIAC website titled "Russia–Turkey Relations Need a Stronger Foundation". In this piece he argued that those of his compatriots...

On August 1, 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control placed sanctions on Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu and Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül. This was done to pressure Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government to release fro...

The following is an update on Turkey-Russia relations: (Source: Kremlin.ru) Erdogan Proposes Co-Production Of S-500 With Russia The US Senate has recently passed the 2019 defense bill, in which Turkey is excluded from the F-35 jets supply program. Meanwhile, Turkey has...

The following report is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information, click here. In late May 2018, Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS, formerly known as Jabhat Al-Nusra and Jabhat Fath Al-Sham), headed by Abu M...

On May 18, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan participated, along with other senior politicians, in a pro-Palestinian rally in Istanbul. At the rally, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said: "The administration of Israel, which emulates Hitler and Mussolini, has once aga...

Under Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his party, the AKP, antisemitism in Turkey has increased. In early 2005, Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was the fourth best-selling book in the country, selling 50,000 copies.[1] It is now available not only in bookstores but at venues ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan asked, in response to a manifesto published by prominent French personalities calling for the removal of antisemitic and anti-Christian sentiment from the Quran: "Have they ever read the Torah? Have they ever read the Book of Psalms? If they...

İbrahim Özdabak is a Turkish cartoonist whose personal website includes cartoons dating back to 2005 covering many subjects relevant to Turkish society and politics.[1] Many of his cartoons have antisemitic themes, depicting Jews as blood-soaked butchers, vultures circling ov...

In an article laced with invective, and titled "You Have No Shame, Do you? Soon, You Will Raise U.S./Israel Flags In Mecca/Medina… Jerusalem Is A Common Homeland For Us All!", the editor-in-chief of AKP mouthpiece Yeni Safak, Ibrahim Karagul accused UAE Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed ...

Hasan Öztürk the editorial writer for the ruling AKP's mouthpiece Yeni Safak wrote an article, titled "We Are Neither Pro-Russia, Nor Pro-NATO; We Are Turkish, Thank God," discussing Ankara's relations with the West and with Russia. The Turkish editorialist opined that punishi...

Yeni Safak, the mouthpiece for Turkey's ruling Adalet ve Kalkimna Partisi (Justice and Development Party) criticized AKP's own leader, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for his policies in Syria and his government's support for the U.S.-Great Britain- France airstrike in Sy...

Introduction On December 12, 2017, ahead of the summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul,  the Turkish daily Yeni Şafak, which is close to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ruling AKP party, published an article  titled "A Call for Urg...

Turkish political commentator Hüseyin Güneş said that Turkey's military operation in Syria constituted war against America, not just against several thousand terrorists. "If we defeat it in the region, this will spell the beginning of the end for America," he said, adding that Tu...

Introduction On December 2, 2017, the Syrian opposition website Zamanalwsl.net published the findings of a study on foreign forces' military airbases in Syria, including information on their location, what countries they belong to, what they are used for, and what their capabi...

The Russian military affairs expert Aleksandr Goltz argues that Russian President Vladimir Putin, having failed to secure a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the APEC summit in Vietnam, "desperately needed some visible proof that he was still a global leader".[1] T...

The November 2017 summit of the Russian, Iranian and Turkish presidents in Sochi is a contemporary Yalta Conference, but one in which Washington was relegated to the role of an extra while Moscow enjoyed top billing. That is how the Russian pro-Kremlin researchers and commentator...

Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Cartoon Of The Week Russia, Iran and Turkey make order in Syr...

On November 20, 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Sochi. Two days later, on November 22, Putin met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi, for а tripartite meeting, reaffirming t...

On November 1, 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Iran, in connection with the trilateral meeting of the Russian, Iranian, and Azerbaijanian leaders. During the visit, Putin met with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. According to media reports, Khamenei stressed th...

The Turkish television drama series Payitaht: Abdülhamid (roughly, "Sultan Abdulhamid")  began airing on February 24, 2017, on the Turkish state-owned TRT 1 television channel. The series comprised 17 episodes; the final episode aired June 23. According to the TRT 1 web...