Turkey’s recent policies in Syria are emblematic of the way a middle power can exert influence in its region, sometimes outmaneuvering seemingly stronger players. Throughout Syria’s civil war, which ...

President Donald Trump has visited the main U.S. military base in the Middle East as he uses his four-day visit to Gulf ...

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has been locked in bloody conflict with Turkey for more than four ...

On a macro level, Hassan said, “Erdogan’s ambitions are deeply rooted in a neo-Ottoman Empire vision that seeks to reassert Ankara ... in the Middle East, said a stronger Syria-Turkey alliance ...

In recent years, Ankara was able to push the PKK from Turkey into northern Iraq ... of prisoners convicted of non-violent offenses. Middle East Eye delivers independent and unrivalled coverage ...

When Israel and Iran struck each other last year in a series of escalatory steps involving air attacks and cruise missiles, every country in the region raised its alarm levels. Ankara encouraged ...

Israel, in northern Syria, has been bombing militias affiliated with the government of Turkey. According to Turkish media sources, Ankara’s ... bring peace to the Middle East as a whole ...

In other parts of the Middle East violence ... the Turkish city of Istanbul for peace talks with a Russian delegation. Zelenskyy told a news conference in the Turkish capital Ankara that the ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin stayed away from peace talks in Turkey, prompting criticism from Western officials that the ...