The German newspaper DIE Welt has revealed a delicate issue concerning the probable supply of Russian gas to EU countries through a Turkish company that supplies Bulgaria thanks to a 13-year contract, even though the EU has declared that it wants to be totally independent from Moscow gas starting from 2027.
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(by Andrea Pinto) Turkey signed a new agreement with Libya a few days ago for the exploitation of gas and oil fields under concession that expels Italy and other international players from Libyan resources. After the 2019 agreement signed by Erdogan and the then president of the Libyan presidential council al Serraj, Turkey and [...]
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Russia and Ukraine produce only a third of the world's wheat and barley, but most of this is sold to African countries, which import 40% of their needs from them, while Rwanda, Tanzania and Senegal reach 60%. , Egypt at 80%. The grain freeze cost Kiev 11% of [...]
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(by Paolo Giordani) Almost 100 days after the beginning of what Moscow calls a "special military operation" (the post-Soviet version of the British understatement almost always has ironic implications), the hypothesis of a ceasefire in Ukraine and the start of "serious" negotiations still appears remote, for various reasons. The first and most evident is that not only [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson announced that the country will ask to join NATO at the same time that Finland formalizes the acts of accession, probably next Sunday. Andersson specified that this is "a historic change in our security policy, we are entering a new era: the [...]
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The Turkish intelligence organization MIT, after almost a year of investigations, stalking, environmental surveys and the involvement of 200 agents, managed to have 7 people arrested on October 15th on charges of spying for the Israeli Mossad services . The goal of the secret partnership was to spy on Palestinian students residing in Turkey. Friday […]
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Yesterday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to his political supporters: “I have given orders to our Foreign Minister to do what must be done: these 10 ambassadors must be declared persona non grata, they must leave immediately. They will now know and understand Turkey. In fact, 10 countries have signed a public petition asking [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) NATO changes its skin, from a purely defensive alliance, under the dictates of art. 5, to a more modern, cooperative and reactive version that directs its attention towards crises, on a global level, capable of destabilizing the peace and security of the allied countries. The Secretary General of NATO, Jean Stoltenberg, in the press conference [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The game played on the chessboard between Italy and Turkey marked a new move by Istambul, a kind of checkmate. Today the entire Libyan government that has just taken office will go to Turkey. President Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah will lead a delegation of 13 ministers, including the Army Chief of Staff [...]
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New heavy sentences in Turkey for the failed coup attempt in 2016. An Ankara court handed down 121 life sentences in one of the failed coup trials in 2016. The military accused of the armed actions of the night between the 15th was sentenced and on July 16 at the General Command of the Gendarmerie [...]
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The young cooperator, drilling, Libya and Turkey are the common denominator. Now Rome will have to return the favor to Erdogan, and the real favor is the drilling and al-Serraj (by Michele Marseille) In this last week, Turkey once again takes the balance on several fronts. Analyzing the fundamentals, it is visible how Ankara [...]
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Apparently Recep Tayyip Erdogan has not kept the promises made at the Berlin Conference. A Turkish frigate Tcg Gaziantep was seen off Libya yesterday. Ankara said it is used to rescue migrants at sea, while for the men of General Khalifa Haftar they claim that the ship transported [...]
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The British newspaper "The Guardian" quoted the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as confirming that about 2000 rebels would be transferred to Libya from the Syrian city of Idlib to reinforce Fayez al-Serraj's troops. The New York Times, on the other hand, reported the news that the forces belonging to the Tripoli Protection Force have [...]
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The Libyan Address website revealed that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was ready for a new step in Libya and the Eastern Mediterranean. Erdogan addressed the remarks to the Turkish soldiers through a telephone call with the Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, who was visiting the soldiers in the Turkish city of [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Turkish Parliament will meet in extraordinary session on Thursday 2 January at 14, when in Italy it will be 12, to anticipate the vote on President Erdogan's AKP motion authorizing the sending of troops to Libya in support of the government of national accord of Fayez al-Sarraj against the offensive of the militias of [...]
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Italy lost Libya in 2011 when Gaddafi was overthrown by force at the hands of Sarkozy's France. France has never digested our relevance, our privileged lane in Libya. The final push for Italy is the signing, on November 27, of the Turkish-Libyan treaty on the jurisdictional areas of the Mediterranean of [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Libyan interior minister Fathi Bashagha said his government will send Turkey an official request for military support to fight mercenaries alongside Khalifa Haftar. Erdogan replied that on the 7th the Turkish parliament (certainly of the majority) will approve the sending of troops to support Tripoli. On the 8th [...]
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The news is reported by all Libyan newspapers, from the Libyan Observer to the Libyan Address. Surprisingly, Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj flew to Turkey to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the early afternoon. The main issue addressed was the agreement to send Turkish troops to help the Tripoli government. Only [...]
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On 3-4 December the celebrations in London of the 70th anniversary of NATO and tensions between the leaders of the 29 member states do not subside. US President Donald Trump no longer wants to "subsidize" Europe. Trump wants EU countries to spend at least 2024% of GDP on defense by 2 (Italy is [...]
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We are close to the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of NATO and the tensions between the leaders of the 29 member states who will meet in London on 3-4 December are not abating. US President Donald Trump no longer wants to "subsidize" Europe. He wants it to spend at least 2014 per cent of GDP by 2 on [...]
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It is always difficult to justify a war, which brings death to military and civilians. Innocent men, women and children who will bear the signs of conflict throughout their lives, giving rise to feelings of hatred and resentment that will be handed down for generations and which will most likely cause other wars. There is no answer to justify a conflict. [...]
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Dutch police arrested Tanis Gokmen, the Turkish citizen suspected of being the perpetrator of the shooting that took place today in Utrecht, the Netherlands, which left three dead and at least five injured. This was reported by the Dutch police in a note on his Twitter profile. At the moment the motive for the gesture is not yet clear and whether [...]
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Sara Sanders, spokeswoman for the White House, announced that, after the withdrawal is completed in the spring, the United States will leave about 200 soldiers in Syria "as a small group for peacekeeping operations", without specifying where these troops will be stationed, what they will be actually their task and how long they will remain, limiting themselves to talking about [...]
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, in an article published by the Russian newspaper "Kommersant", returned to talk about the recent controversy with US President Donald Trump, who in recent days threatened to "economically devastate" Turkey in the event that the latter "attacks the Kurds" in northern Syria. "Turkey is not looking for [...]
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The distance confrontation between Donald Trump and Recep Tayyp Erdogan is getting harder. In fact, the Turkish president, ignoring the suggestions of Tusiad, the Turkish Confindustria, which invited him to lower the tone of the clash with Washington and to raise interest rates to curb the devaluation of the lira, signed the [...]
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Erdogan is not afraid of the threat of US sanctions in the event of the non-release of the American pastor Andrew Brunson. Brunson was accused of supporting a group close to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that allegedly fomented the failed military coup of 2016. The pastor, who denied the allegations, risks up to […]
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After the lifting of the two-year state of emergency imposed for the failed coup, the government of Ankara today is about to vote on a new law on security that gives the authorities broad anti-terrorism powers, after having concluded the approval of the individual articles yesterday of the provision. The new law gives more to local governors, [...]
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The figures are not yet official and define you, however Erdogan celebrates the victory by rejecting allegations of fraud. There were 350 European officials who checked the regularity of the elections and above all of the ballot. An Italian activist, during the agitated phases of the vote, was arrested for terrorism. A victory, however, which grants Erdogan superpowers [...]
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Turkey is preparing to cast the vote for the presidential and parliamentary elections which for many observers would be at high risk due to a series of considerations. They could consolidate the power of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan or limit his broad political ambitions. Erdogan, in a controversial referendum last year, approved a new [...]
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The main competitor in the next elections in June in Turkey, the Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas, who is still in prison for political reasons, shakes Erdogan's thoughts a lot. He will not be able to carry out a proper electoral campaign and yet, his candidacy is destined to shake up the campaign for the early presidential elections on June 24 [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The apparent American lack of interest in the Middle East has for some time been favoring new processes of strategic influence of new / old international players. Syria is an area that in this regard is demonstrating how the triumvirate Russia, Turkey, Iran is doing good and bad weather in a perspective that is anything but pacifying, to the detriment, above all, of the civilian population [...]
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According to reports from the Turkish and Kurdish media, the Turkish army's offensive against the Syrian town Tal Rifaat began today. The military operation was announced by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last Sunday who had indicated Tal Rifaaf as the next target of the "Olive Branch" operation launched on January 20 against Kurdish fighters in the nearby area [...]
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The strong reaction of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan comes to the concern expressed by the European Union about Syrian events. Erdogan responding to the EU, which 48 hours after the fall of the Kurdish city of Afrin in northern Syria, expressed "concern" about what is happening in the area following the victory of the Turkish army and the Arab allies of the Army [ ...]
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Redur Khalil, spokesman for the People's Defense Units (YPG), called the hope expressed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to conquer the Kurdish enclave Afrin by tonight "a daydream". Khalil went on to say that “The city has hundreds of thousands of inhabitants and fighters will prevent the Turkish army and its [...]
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Turkish President Erdogan said he would further increase trade between Turkey and Algeria, which currently amounts to $ 3,5 billion (€ 2,86 billion). "The cooperation between our two countries will probably bring these exchanges to 5 billion dollars in the short term", said the Turkish president, opening a forum [...]
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Emmanuel Macron, speaking with "le Figaro", warns Turkey of the risks of an "invasion" which would constitute a "real problem" because "it would not see Syrian sovereignty respected and announces that he will call his Turkish counterpart, Tayyip Recep Erdogan, which seems determined to widen its offensive to eradicate the positions of the Kurds in the north [...]
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The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced on Saturday the start of operations by the Ankara army and the allied Syrian militias (FSA) in Afrin and, subsequently, in Manbij, against the positions of the Ypg, party militias of the Democratic Union (Pyd), a Syrian Kurdish formation that is part of the opposition to the government of Damascus. The operation, called "Olive Branch", [...]
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As reported by the Turkish news agency Anadolu, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during his opening speech at the summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) convened today in Ankara, defined by Israel as an "occupying and terrorist" state . The summit aims to give a coordinated and univocal response to the [...]
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According to what declared today by Mevlut Cavusoglu, head of diplomacy, Turkey expects US President Donald Trump "to keep his word" on the suspension of weapons in Syria to the Syrian Kurdish militias of the Ypg, the People's Defense Unit considered by Ankara as "terrorists". Cavusoglu in a televised statement, speaking from [...]
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According to Nova, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reiterated today, on the occasion of the press conference held in Tehran with his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rohani, his opposition to the referendum held on 25 September last in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan , announcing that "major countermeasures" will be taken against Erbil. "We do not recognize the [...]
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Putin will meet Erdogan in Ankara on September 28, focus on Syria and S-400 It is learned from Agenzia Nova that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will meet his Turkish counterpart, Erdogan, next Thursday. Erdogan announced this in a speech at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York, adding that before the meeting in Ankara he will have a telephone conversation [...]
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The closed-door meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Emir of Qatar Emir Tamit bin Hamad al Thani lasted two and a half hours, which took place in the presidential palace in Ankara. According to sources from the presidential administration, the talks focused on the crisis in relations between the Gulf countries, on the situation in Syria and [...]
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Moscow and Ankara have reached an agreement on the supply of Russian-made S-400 anti-missile aircraft to Turkey. The contract has already been signed and a first payment has already been made, as anticipated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The delivery of these devices to Turkey satisfies the geopolitical interests of the Federation [...]
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged the Israeli government on Monday to end its "occupation attempts" of Palestine that jeopardize the possibility of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Speaking at a press conference in Ankara after talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud [...]
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A decree issued in Turkey as part of the state of emergency in the country has transferred control of the secret services (MIT) from the premier to the president. Premier Binali Yildirim confirmed to the Anadolu news agency that starting from now "the president (Recep Tayyp Erdogan, ed.) Will have the secret services", following the constitutional reform approved in [...]
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Erdogan still fears small pockets of traitors within his army and has decided to change all military leaders, except the Chief of Staff Hulusi Akar. A reshuffle that was not entirely unexpected in the context of the purges initiated in the army after the attempted coup of July 15, 2016, but which nevertheless reserved some important surprises. Indicating that the [...]
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Tana De Zulueta, Head of the Vienna OSCE responded to ANSA on the "democratic" elections in Turkey. "An" extremely unequal "dispute with an" overwhelming preponderance in the media of the "yes" parties ", an" unprecedented "number of arrested journalists but also of opposition figures, such as the country's third party, the pro-Kurd Hdp, practically halved. And then it [...]
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