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On August 9, 2016, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Russia and met with his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to discuss restoring the relations between the two countries. RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov comments on the current situation in bilateral relations and the ...
The failed “military coup” in Turkey last month is still replete with discrepancies, insinuations and outright lies. Disinformation and recriminations continue to swirl like an impenetrable black hole, blotting out cogent questions over the innumerable bloopers in this poorly-scripted ...
Turkey’s foreign policy in recent years has limited its room for manoeuvre in the international arena. The course of former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu – "zero problems with our neighbours” – that had underpinned the policy ...
Igor Ivanov, former Russian foreign minister, says the military coup in Turkey underlines the need for cooperation between Russia and Turkey.
Turkey’s foreign policy has been on the rise this past month. Riding the wave of de-escalation in the Russia–Turkey dialogue, relations between Ankara and Tel Aviv are also being resumed after an almost six-year break. One should not forget ...
... apology itself can be interpreted differently (it is addressed to the families of the deceased pilots and in Turkish, sounds somewhat like “Alright, guys, we made a mistake, no hard feelings, OK?”), there is no doubt that the President of Turkey intended his letter to be taken as an apology. Judging by the reaction from the Kremlin, and given the fact that the Press Secretary for the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov, is fluent in Turkish, it would seem that the text of the apology has ...
On May 17, 2016 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a meeting of its Director General Andrey Kortunov with Umit Yardim, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Turkey to the Russian Federation. The meeting was attended by RIAC Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov, RIAC Program Manager Lyudmila Filippova and Second Secretary of the Turkish Embassy Fatih Topaloglu. The RIAC Director General and the Turkish ...
... Rotational Force which is dispatched at the Mihail Kogălniceanu airbase, and provides the US with a naval support facility in Deveselu. This NATO flotilla would primarily rely on NATO Black Sea members naval capabilities (i.e. Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey), but would not be restricted to them, with prospects to join already offered to Ukraine and Georgia, while some Western navies would be contributing as well (in particular the US, Italian and German).[1] Taking into account that all Black Sea ...
... been a forum in which partners can participate on an equal footing in their national capacity. If that had been the case, the Council would have had to discuss the incident within the framework of its own format, i.e. with the participation of Russia, Turkey and other member countries of the RNC. This did not happen, however, and the question why did not arise. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle Igor Ivanov: How Can We Ensure National Security in the 21st Century? The principle of dialogue on an equal footing ...
... okay with the erosion of democratic values and a deeply undemocratic military occupation of the West Bank as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict stifles Israel’s left and drives its people further to the right. The assault on democratic norms in Turkey by its government is far worse. Still worse in that region, the Arab Spring has, in general, become a massive tragedy. Archive Additionally, democracy by no means appears stable or secure overall in either Sub-Saharan Africa or in Latin America....
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