Recep Tayyip Erdogan

By Levent Kenez STOCKHOLM (Nordic Monitor) — The Turkish firm Baykar, a defense contractor owned by the son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Selçuk Bayraktar, signed a preliminary agreement[...]

By Berge Jololian Negotiating peace between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey has officially entered the realm of farce. Add Russia’s Putin and Belarus’s Lukashenko to the mix, and you have the[...]

By Dr. Loqman Radpey Turkey’s bold foreign policy moves in recent years reflect a determined effort to redefine its regional and global role. From its military interventions in Syria to[...]

As Armenia enters 2025, it is clear that the year will present significant geopolitical challenges for the country. Armenia’s security, political stability, and economic development will continue to be shaped[...]

WASHINGTON (Middle East Forum Observer) — On December 22, 2024, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rallied a crowd of his Islamist supporters in Mardin, not far from the Syrian border.[...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday, October 22, that Turkey had violated the right to a fair trial of 10 judges and prosecutors. The court found[...]

ISTANBUL (Stockholm Center for Freedom) — A journalist in western Turkey was detained and subsequently fired from her job after she expressed condolences for Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen during a live[...]

The Middle East has always been one of the hottest regions in the entire world, but recent direct tensions between Iran and Israel have made the region even more tense.[...]

Just over a century ago, Turkey and the Soviet Union signed the Treaty of Moscow. The agreement fixed the border and formalized relations between the two countries. Shortly after, the[...]

By Levent Kenez STOCKHOLM (Nordic Monitor) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan drew Baku’s ire with his statements about Turkey’s role in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War, which concluded with Azerbaijan’s[...]