US Declares War on Turkish Tourism Economy

Steven Sahiounie On February 3, the Turkish interior minister, Suleyman Soylu, blasted the US Ambassador to Turkey, Jeffry L. Flake, saying, “Take your dirty hands off of Turkey.” The outrage was prompted after Washington and eight European countries issued travel warnings over possible terror attacks in Turkey. The US and its western allies have attempted to…

The Kurdish Issue in Turkish-American Relations

Alexandr Svaranc The topic of this article, of course, is very complex, profound and ambiguous, which requires more fundamental case studies. The author does not claim to have comprehensive coverage of this issue but will nevertheless try to outline the main features of Turkish-American relations taking into account the Kurdish issue. The Kurdish issue remains…

A US Tool against Iran: Kurdish Militancy on the Iran-Iraq Border

The Cradle’s Iraq Correspondent US and Israeli-backed armed Kurdish separatists on the Iraqi border have participated in every incident of Iranian domestic strife, from 2009 to 2022. After hours of traveling around the Iraqi border between the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) and Iran, you will come to a single conclusion: “This is a one-sided…

Turkey Determined to Complete 30 km Security Strip Along Syrian Border

Al Mayadeen Turkey will be completing the security strip along its southern border, which is 30 kilometers deep into Syrian territory. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said that Turkey will be completing the security strip along its southern border, which is 30 kilometers deep into Syrian territory. Erdogan, speaking at a meeting in…

Iran, Iraq Unites against Separatist Groups

TEHRAN TIMES– The new f traveled to Iran on Tuesday and held talks in which the issue of Kurdish separatist groups based in Iraqi Kurdistan apparently featured high among other issues. In Tehran, al-Sudani held several high-level meetings, including a remarkable one with Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei. The Iraqi prime…

Differences on Syria Between Russia, Turkey Can Be Resolved Through Dialogue: Kremlin

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – There are disagreements between Russia and Turkey on Syria, but all of them can be resolved through dialogue as the two countries enjoy a high level of relations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday. “There are disagreements with Turkey on Syria,” Peskov told the Moscow.Kremlin.Putin TV program, adding that “the level…

Turkey Vows to Expand Effort to End ‘Terrorist’ Threat Beyond its Borders

The Cradle The Turkish ministry of defense claims to have killed 471 Kurdish militants in 271 separate attacks in Syria and Iraq since the start of the operation The Turkish Minister of Defense, Hulusi Akar, visited the Turkish troops on the border with Iraq on 27 November to inspect the ongoing operations as part of the country’s…

Turkey Attacks Base Housing US Troops in Syria

The Cradle Ankara has blamed the 13 November bomb attack in the heart of Istanbul on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) On 22 November, a military base occupied by US troops and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) came under a Turkish drone attack, according to Press TV. According to a Kurdish spokesman, two militants were…

Turkey Launches Operation Claw-Sword against SDF, PKK, YPG

Al Mayadeen Reports that Turkey has carried out several raids on the armed opposition faction Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) sites in Raqqa and the two countrysides of Hasakah and Aleppo in Syria, as well as Sulaymaniyah and Erbil in Iraq. Turkey has launched Operation Claw-Sword with air raids targeting the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG)…

Istanbul Terror Attack May Prompt Turkish Invasion and Deportations

Steven Sahiounie As President Assad has said before, be careful when you feed a monster because it can later turn to bite you. On November 13, a blast ripped through Istiklal street, a busy pedestrian area in the Beyoglu neighborhood of Istanbul.  The explosion killed six people and wounded 81 at about 4:30 pm local time. Among…

How Erdogan Benefits from Istanbul Attack

The blast that killed at least six people and injured 81 others in Istanbul on Sunday is undeniably a terrorist attack. However, the cowardly attack on a civilian population in a touristic quarter of Istanbul did not pass without political and security exploitation by Erdogan who is preparing for the Presidential elections scheduled to take…

Turkey Launches Bombing Campaign on the PKK in Northern Iraq

The Cradle Baghdad has condemned the ongoing violations of its territory by Ankara’s forces The Turkish army launched a bombing campaign against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq on 17 April, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said in a statement a day later. Turkish drones, warplanes, and artillery units attacked PKK camps and ammunition depots,…