Iraq’s PMF in Trump’s Game with IranTrump set dissolution of Iraq’s PMF as a precondition for talks with Iran, but the fact is that this voluntary force is deep-rooted in Iraq.
Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
neo-Ottomanism, Ankara invested massively in Libya. A Bloomberg news agency’s report claimed that Turkish companies active in Libya agreed with the GNA to invest $18 billion in Libyan projects.
When the Haftar-led forces, calling themselves Libyan National Army (LNA), claimed that only ...
neo-Ottomanism, post-Kemalism, peripheralism, and Anatolic Islamism. But without any doubt, the central point in the Turkish foreign policy was the “strategic depth” theory raised by Ahmet Davutoglu, the former prime minister, foreign minister, and member of the AKP. Essentially, Davouto ...
neo-Ottomanism in Turkish foreign policy which is based on the “strategic depth” doctrine of Erdogan's old ally and current rival Ahmet Davutoglu has pitted Turkey against other regional and international powers over the past decade in a wide range of crises and cases, particularly i ...
neo-Ottomanism and made North Africa and Caucasus a scene for his influence and power play and show, Ankara accepted any help to expand its range of influence in return for political and economic privileges. One example is the Israeli military equipment of Azerbaijan, a Turkish ally, in the war agai ...
neo-Ottomanism, seeks to restore the frontiers of the Ottoman Empire.
According to the national covenant adopted by the Ottoman Empire in 1920, in Iraq about 6 current provinces of Duhok, Erbil, Halabja, Sulaymaniyah, Mosul and Kirkuk, in Syria parts of Aleppo, Idlib, Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor pr ...
neo-Ottomanism. The competitors have come up with the notion that if they get in the race alone, they would have a slim chance of success to take down Erdogan and, thus, they formed the “six-party table” in February last year, an alliance aimed at uniting their ranks and positions and ta ...
neo-Ottomanism, from a variety of aspects can bear important messages to the regional and international actors, as well as Erdogan's internal allies and opponents.
Fidan, Turkey's man in the shadow
Fidan, who is called by many as Turkey's security a ...
neo-Ottomanism, the Turks are interested to create regional convergence and align with themselves various communities and sects with their policies. Turkey seeks to have different cultural, economic and literary symbols as well as prominent people in different regions in order to realize the neo-Ott ...
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Many believe that Turkey has ambitious goals by directly supporting armed rebel groups in northern Syria and advancing these groups towards Damascus and the fall of al-Assad's government.
Alexander Swarantez, a professor of political science in Russia, enumerated the Turkish aim ...
While Turkey’s policy revolves around restoration of past regional dominance, Iran’s policy is pro-liberation and anti-imperialist. Alwaght- While the Syrian developments with takeover of power by the rebel groups benefited a number of regional and international players rather than the Syrian people ...