Tag: Turkey

(Saudi Arabia/Turkey) Saudi Arabia wants to buy Turkey’s armed drones: Erdogan (Al Jazeera)

Turkey’s president also voices displeasure at Riyadh’s joint air exercises with its longstanding rival Greece. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/16/saudi-arabia-willing-to-buy-turkeys-armed-drones-erdogan

(Greece/Turkey) Greece, Turkey resume preliminary talks on Mediterranean dispute (Al Jazeera)

NATO allies at odds over competing claims over to continental shelves, maritime rights, and air space in the Mediterranean. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/16/greece-turkey-resume-preliminary-talks-on-mediterranean-dispute

(Turkey/UAE) Useful enemies: How the Turkey-UAE rivalry is remaking the Middle East (ECFR)

Asli Aydıntaşbaş, Cinzia Bianco Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are engaged in a decade-long feud that is reshuffling the geopolitical order in the Middle...

(Turkey) Turkey plans to deploy attack drones from its amphibious assault ship (Defense News)

Tayfun Ozberk The Turkish government hopes to transform its landing helicopter dock Anadolu into a carrier ship for attack drones, and has already begun tests...

(Turkey) Turkey Signals Sweeping Regional Ambitions (BESA Center)

James M. Dorsey A nationalist Turkish television station with close ties to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has dug up a 12-year-old map that projects Turkey’s...

(Turkey/Gara Affair) The Gara Affair: How Not to Rescue Hostages (BESA Center)

Burak Bekdil Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan needed a military success story, and the rescue of 13 hostages held by the PKK in northern Iraq...

(Turkey/Greece/USA) To manage tensions between Turkey and Greece, the US should look to history (Atlantic Council)

Grady Wilson The long-running dispute between the United States’ NATO allies—Turkey and Greece—in the Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean heated up over the past year. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/turkeysource/to-manage-tensions-between-turkey-and-greece-the-us-should-look-to-history/

(Armenia/Azerbaijan/Turkey) Azerbaijan, Turkey Watching Armenia’s Political Crisis (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vladimir Socor Viewed from Baku and Ankara, the political conflict in Armenia pits military and civilian nationalists unreconciled to defeat in the Second Karabakh War...

(Turkey) Turkey’s Baykar begins designing AI-powered combat drone (Defense News)

Burak Ege Bekdil A Turkish drone maker has begun the conceptual design phase of what it hopes will become the country’s first combat drone. https://www.c4isrnet.com/artificial-intelligence/2021/03/01/turkeys-baykar-begins-designing-ai-powered-combat-drone/

(Russia/Iran/Turkey/Caspian Region) Moscow Expanding Ties With Iran to Counter Growing Turkish Influence Around Caspian (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble Moscow is alarmed by the expansion of Turkish influence in the Caspian region, most immediately by Turkey’s enthusiasm for trans-Caspian natural gas pipelines,...

(Turkey) Erdoğan’s Turkey Cannot Modernize Via Constitutional Reform (BESA Center)

Burak Bekdil Turks have been seeking to modernize their democratic culture for a century and a half. Recently, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged to reform...

(Turkey/USA/F-35) Turkey has hired an international law firm to help it win back its spot in the US-led F-35 fighter jet program, state media...

Turkey has hired an international law firm to help it win back its spot in the US-led F-35 fighter jet program, state media reported...

(Turkey/Free Speech) Turkey: Student Protesters at Risk of Prosecution (HRW)

Turkish authorities have placed hundreds of student protesters under possible criminal investigation, Human Rights Watch said today. The students were arrested during weeks of protests...

(Turkey/Critical Technologies) Turkey hopes new engine deal will power future TF-X fighter jet (Defense News)

Burak Ege Bekdil Turkey’s procurement agency has commissioned a local company to develop critical technologies for an engine that the government hopes will power its...

(Turkey/Syria) Who benefits from attacks on Turkish forces in Idlib? (Al Monitor)

Khaled al-Khateb Repeated attacks on Turkish posts and soldiers in Idlib are obstructing Turkish efforts to reopen the M4 international highway and cement the cease-fire,...

(Turkey/PKK/USA) Blinken walks back State Department ambiguity over Turkish hostages killed in Iraq (Al Monitor)

Amberin Zaman After an earlier statement suggesting Washington didn't necessarily buy Ankara's narrative on the killings, the State Department today said that "PKK terrorists bear...