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TUNIS/RIYADH – After Saudi activists, led by officials and princes of the Saudi royal family, launched a large-scale media campaign to boycott Turkish products, Tunisian activists have followed suit. A number of Tunisian activists, on Saturday, made calls on social media, to also boycott Turkish goods and products. The activist…

ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reporting by Sardar Hadid for North Press Agency) – The European Union declared on Friday its intention to study the imposition of sanctions against Turkey at the end of this year. These sanctions are due to Turkey’s unilateral provocations and resumption of gas exploration in eastern Mediterranean. The declaration…

@theEUpost (October 1, 2020) – “Nepotism could be Turkish President Erdogan’s weak point and should be further explored for leverage,” said Abdullah Bozkurt, a Turkish exiled journalist and founder of The Nordic Monitor, during a webinar on Turkey’s military posturing in the East Mediterranean organized by the ECPM, the only…

RIYADH / SINOP, Turkey — Activists in Saudi Arabia, led by officials and princes of the Saudi royal family, have launched a campaign to boycott Turkish products in response to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s reckless and provocative remarks in which he insulted Arab states in general and the Arab…

This article was originally published by The Conversation on 14 October 2020 under a Creative Commons license. The original can be found here. By Mehmet Bastug, Lakehead University and Davut Akca, University of Saskatchewan Turkey’s long arm and espionage activities against dissidents living in exile in Canada has become a…

ANKARA / NORTH AND EAST SYRIA — During a tense joint press conference on Tuesday, the Swedish and Turkish foreign ministers exchanged not-so-subtle barbs. In a response to Swedish Foreign Minister Anne Linde’s recent calls for Turkey to withdraw from the territory it occupies in Syria, which have seen systemic and…

This blog post was published under a Creative Commons license on 13 October 2020 by The Council on Foreign Relations. The original can be found here. By Amy Austin Holmes international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. One year ago,…

The views expressed in this op-ed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of SyriacPress. By Aydin Gabriel The two parties took up arms and headed to the front to militarily solve a problem that could not be solved for decades in the Caucasus. The…

ANKARA — The latest opinion poll conducted by Themis in Turkey has recorded a decline in the popularity of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his Justice and Development Party (AKP), as well public opinion about the presidential system the country adopted in 2018 at Erdoğan’s behest. The survey consisted of…

ANKARA – In an article on Sunday, Tamara Qiblawi, writing for CNN, argued the foreign policy of the Turkey under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is close to reaching a dead-end road as a result of the continuing deterioration of the Turkish economy and international isolation. Qiblawi pointed out that Erdoğan’s…