The Iranian regime, knowing it can't attack Western powers who have expressed support for recent protests across the Islamic Republic, has decided to attack Iran's Kurdish minority in response. Iran's decision to target Kurds is... 
The US designation of a Turkish-based money laundering network run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force hit the close associates of Turkish intelligence chief Hakan Fidan, a pro-Iranian Islamist figure. The... 
Burak Bekdil reviews the myriad ways Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has "overtly challeng[ed]" NATO and "steered Turkey further away from Western interests, in favor of his Eurasian adventurism, in just a couple of months." 
The head of the counterintelligence department in Turkey's spy agency MIT has maintained close ties to a Turkish charity known as the logistics supplier for al-Qaeda groups worldwide and has long harbored anti-Semitic views, a... 
Iran held a military parade on Thursday and unveiled what it claimed to be a new ballistic missile. The missile is a medium-range ballistic rocket capable of traveling around 1,400km, according to Iranian media. Images of the... 
Could growing intra-Palestinian violence in the West Bank be a prelude to an uprising against the Palestinian Authority? From Seth J. Frantzman.
Tarek Fatah: "It is time for Canadian feminists ... to step forward and march with the Iranian women burning their male-imposed hijabs." 
Burak Bekdil: "Erdoğan's peace with Israel is not peace. It is a tactical move to flash to Washington: I am being a good boy, give me the F-16s, do not sanction me."
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