Since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, Turkey has taken a clear stance against the Assad regime, supporting opposition and rebel forces. Following the fall of the Alawite regime and the rise of ...
In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” A Catholic Albanian, a Greek Orthodox, or a Jew who converted to Islam ...
But there the similarity ends. Ataturk was, at most, an agnostic who felt that Islam, as practiced in the Ottoman Empire, was an enemy of progress; Erdogan is a devout Muslim who often waxes ...
The unloved reptile and the slithery behavior often ascribed to it could be a fitting metaphor for Turkey lately — starting with President Erdogan’s rolling out the welcome mat for a Hamas delegation ...
Erdogan could order Islamist militias to deploy along the Israeli border with Syria, creating a highly combustible reality ...
Jerusalem does not belong to Turkey. Aspirations to re-create a neo-Ottoman colonial empire are nothing more than a dystopian nightmare. Here is why. Opinion.
Erdogan to shut down the major US Incirlik ... officially recognize the alleged mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire a century ago as "genocide". The nonbinding legislation had already ...
Their differing ambitions—the revival of the Ottoman Empire versus the restoration of the Umayyad Caliphate—place them on a potential collision course. Whether this tension will escalate into ...
Turkish troops are occupying parts of Syria and Cyprus as Erdogan continues to seek influence and leadership in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire. And to the retrospective, expansionist ...
According to The Jerusalem Post, the Nagel Committee claims that Turkey, under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is trying to revive the power once held by the Ottoman Empire. This move is ...
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Albania Thursday ... he tries to boost ties with a region once ruled by the Ottoman empire. Erdogan will inaugurate the Great Mosque of Tirana ...
The statement was carefully crafted to say the deportations, massacres and death marches took place in the Ottoman Empire ... Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is yet to address the ...