... 1964, which established the unchallenged legitimacy of the Nicosia administration; Nikita Khruschev’s effective warnings against Ankara’s threatened invasion in summer 1964; proven Soviet willingness to provide Cyprus military hardware to cope with Turkey’s bellicosity; diachronic denunciation of all proposals to partition the Island-state; persistent calls for an international conference on settling the Cyprus problem according to international law; unqualified condemnation of the 1983 unilateral ...
... has actually stopped all political and financial support for the Muslim Brotherhood’s affiliates. The Qataris did continue to back the Syrian rebels, but without any political framework: in fact, they financed some groups politically affiliated with Turkey or Jordan. The Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, now deprived of Qatar’s aid, lost its role as the leader of the opposition. By early 2015, the organization had to disband its military unit, the Shields of the Revolution Council. Moreover,...
... the one hand, a united front of three nations, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain, supported by Egypt and Jordan outside the Council, and Qatar, Kuwait and Oman, on the other hand, with Qatar standing somewhat apart from the others with the support of Turkey outside of Council, and recently to a certain extent Iran and Iraq. Oman and Kuwait are being prudent and are loathe to sour relations with either side. It is important to note that Oman opposed the Saudi initiative to unite the GCC armed forces ...
... example of how to develop sound interstate cooperation with the countries of the continent from scratch within a short period of time
One can hardly fail to notice Ankara’s opening policy to Africa, despite its relative novelty, primarily due to Turkey’s increased activity in this area. The statistics speaks for itself. The President of Turkey R. Erdoğan has become an absolute record-breaker among leaders of non-African states by the number of visits on the African continent, Sub-Saharan African ...
... of GCC and Israel
It is not just the US policy which India has to contend with it is the alliance between GCC countries and Israel. While Saudi Arabia has remained at loggerheads with Israel, recently both are part of the Anti-Iran alliance. Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia along with its GCC partners countries demanded at the Munich Security Conference, that Tehran is punished for propping up the Syrian government, developing ballistic missiles and funding separatists in Yemen. Saudi Foreign Minister ...
Russia-Turkey relations are having controversial trends, still there is an opportunity to find common points of contact
Anticipating the new tourist season, Turkey is facing a number of new issues that Ankara will have to solve.
Firstly, the Turkish economy ...
On March 13, RIAC hosted a roundtable on Russia–Turkey relations
On March 13, RIAC hosted a roundtable on Russia–Turkey relations. The event was opened by Hüseyin Diriöz, the Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Turkish Republic to Russia. RIAC editing team had a chance to ask ...
Following up the negotiations with Vladimir Putin on March 10, 2017, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a statement that Russia and Turkey had finalized the normalization process in the framework of their meeting in Moscow
Following up the negotiations with Vladimir Putin on March 10, 2017, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a statement that Russia and Turkey had finalized the normalization ...
... state (the USSR) into a protracted confrontation between Armenia and Azerbaijan with the prospects for resolution being unclear
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. Russia (the successor to the USSR) has expressed an interest in settling this confrontation, as have neighbouring Turkey and Iran, and a number of external actors, namely the United States and the European Union.
In May 1994, when
the Open-Ended Ceasefire Agreement
came into force, it marked the next stage of the conflict, which could be defined as “a dynamic ...
... cooperation of Russia with Egypt, Israel, new partners in the Gulf, such as Bahrain, some progress in relations with Qatar, cooperation with Saudi Arabia in the energy sector, particularly in oil production, and, of course, the normalization of relations with Turkey, including the beginning of cooperation between Moscow and Ankara on the Syrian crisis, which is completely new and unexpected trend. In fact, by the end of the year, Turkey has replaced the United States as a Russian partner on the Syrian crisis ...
