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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Turkey: Anti-Semitism was widespread in 2020

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“The Holocaust story is exaggerated,” “Israel does not get enough of blood and wealth,” “Jews kidnapped Christian children and performed rituals with their blood,” “Jews has sent coronavirus to Turkey to exterminate Turks” … Those...
Hamas supporters attend a rally prior to the Student Council elections at Birzeit University, on the outskirts of Ramallah on May 6, 2014. Photo by Issam Rimawi/Flash90.

IDF, Shin Bet bust Hamas funding network at Birzeit University

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Five students at Birzeit University near Ramallah have been arrested for their role in a Hamas money transfer scheme in a joint operation of the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security agency operation,...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Source: Turkish Presidency via Twitter.

Will Turkish President Erdoğan send troops to Azerbaijan?

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The latest round of fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh region continues to send ricochets across the Middle East. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday submitted a motion to parliament—a week after Russian President Vladimir...
Protesters in Turkey demonstrate against the Trump administration's “Peace to Prosperity” conference and Mideast peace plan in Bahrain, July 2019. Credit: TRT Arabic, Turkey.

Arabs states draw closer to Israel to counter non-Arab powers Turkey and Iran

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The decision by three Arab states to make peace with Israel can be credited both to efforts by the Trump administration and the recognition by these Sunni states that their security would improve against...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Source: Turkish Presidency via Twitter.

‘Turkey stands and will continue to stand with our dear friend and brother, Azerbaijan’

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a recent speech that Turkey stands with “brotherly country” Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenia and expressed his hope that the fighting would continue until Nagorno-Karabagh was “liberated.” In an...
Israeli-British journalist Jonathan Spyer speaking at the India Foundation think tank on Sept. 21, 2017. Credit: Wikipedia.

US rescinds entry ban of Israeli-British journalist

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The United States has lifted the entry ban it had placed on Jonathan Spyer, announced the Israeli-British journalist on social media. “Expiration Date: 2030. Thanks and love to all those who helped,” in a Facebook post featuring...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Source: Turkish Presidency via Twitter.

Editor-in-chief of Turkish AKP mouthpiece: ‘Turkey is a global power—now it’s time for Azerbaijan...

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In his Oct. 2 column titled “Turkey Is A Global Power. Now It’s Time For Azerbaijan To Rise. Iran Backing Armenia! What’s Tehran Afraid Of?” in Turkey’s AKP mouthpiece Yeni Şafak daily, the paper’s editor-in-chief İbrahim...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addressing the opening of the country's parliament on Oct. 1, 2020. Source: Erdoğan via Twitter.

America doesn’t have to choose between appeasing Turkey or Iran

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Does it matter that Turkey appears to think that it can relitigate the outcome of World War I? That’s the question observers were forced to confront last week when its president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
Jonathan Spyer speaking at a Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies lecture in March 2019. Source: Screenshot.

Lift the US ban on journalist Jonathan Spyer

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There is no role in journalism that is more mentally and physically punishing than that of a war correspondent. Reporters and writers who cover wars are, in my experience, a special breed. Insofar as generalizations...
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What’s behind the Ankara-Tehran partnership?

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In a video conference on Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pledged to target Kurdish forces in joint military operations. Both countries agreed that the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK)...