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A luxury Boeing 747 given to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a gift by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. (MEMRI)

Emir of Qatar gives Turkish president $400 million luxury jet

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Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani gave Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a Boeing 747 worth some $400 million, Turkey’s Show TV reported last month. According to the Sept. 14 report, the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Source: Kremlin.

Erdoğan, Putin reach ‘historic agreement’ on Syria ‘buffer zone’

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on Tuesday that Turkey and Russia had reached a “historic” agreement that would remove all Syrian Kurdish fighters from the Syria-Turkey border region. The announcement came following six...
Israelis protest against Turkey's incursion into northern Syria, outside the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv on July 08, 2010. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash 90.

Kurds withdraw from Syria-Turkey border region amid tentative ceasefire

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The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has withdrawn from a 75-mile area between the border towns of Ras al-Ayn and Tal Abyad in compliance with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, and will move back 19 miles...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the U.N. Security Council on the Iranian threat, Dec. 12, 2018,. Source: Screenshot.

Pompeo: Trump ‘fully prepared’ to use military action against Turkey

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Although the administration prefers “peace to war,” U.S. President Donald Trump is “fully prepared” to authorize military action against Turkey, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday. In an interview with CNBC’s Wilfred...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo by Ron Przysucha.

Netanyahu meets with Pompeo amid Israeli concerns about situation in northern Syria

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday amid Israeli concerns over the withdrawal of U.S. forces from northern Syria. “Netanyahu and I had a productive meeting on...
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at a press conference in Ankara after reaching a five-day ceasefire over Turkey's incursion in northern Syria. Source: Screenshot.

Turkey agrees to temporary ceasefire in Syria

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Turkey agreed on Thursday to a temporary ceasefire in northern Syria, where it has moved its forces in against the Kurds, who are still reeling from what they say is a betrayal by the...
Demonstrators rip a Turkish flag as they attend a protest march from the Turkish embassy to the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv in support of the Syrian Kurds and against Turkey's incursion into Syria, Oct. 15, 2019. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Israelis protest against Turkish invasion of Syria

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Several hundred protesters gathered outside the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv on Tuesday to oppose Turkey’s incursion into northern Syria. The protesters, who represented most of the local political spectrum, shouted slogans against Turkish President...
U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey at the G20 Summit Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.

Trump demands Turkey halt Syria incursion, authorizes new sanctions

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday called on Turkey to immediately halt its offensive in northern Syria and authorized new sanctions against the NATO member state. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the United States...
A convoy of U.S. soldiers in Syria in December 2018. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Developments in northern Syria ‘disturbing for Israel’

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Israel has been closely monitoring Turkey’s brutal offensive against the Kurds in northeast Syria in recent days. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the Turkish invasion on Oct. 10, stating that Israel “warns against the...
Turkey has invaded northern Syria, threatening the Kurdish population following U.S. forces withdrawing from the area earlier this week. Source: Screenshot.

How black and white thinking clouds realpolitik

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Black and white thinking, which divides the world into absolute camps of good and evil, is associated with religious fanaticism from medieval Christianity to the Islamic world. There are now troubling signs that a secular...