An influential political operative who was recently elected chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) provincial organization in Istanbul was under surveillance for his links to a terrorist group, confidential... 
Tehran viewed the Russian-Turkish-brokered cease-fire of November 10, 2020, which ended the 45-day war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, with very mixed feelings. On the face of it... 
The 2013 launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China's 21st-century grand revival of the ancient Silk Road connecting the Far East and Europe, has transformed the Middle East's geopolitical role in Beijing's outlook from... 
In a landmark visit to Tehran in January 2016, Chinese president Xi Jinping and Iranian president Hassan Rouhani signed a "comprehensive strategic partnership" that expanded bilateral ties and trade to US$600 billion over ten... 
Following a millennium of almost uninterrupted hostility toward Islam and Muslims,[1] Christian hostility toward both declined. In a series of major shifts, European imperialism and secularism overcame the age-old fears of... 
When Lothrop Stoddard (1883-1950) is still recalled, it is as a prominent racist who had a major but malign influence on the budding field of international relations, who acted as theoretician for the Ku Klux Klan, and who... 
Constitutions only matter in countries that have rule of law. From Burak Bekdil. 
Turkish diplomats continue to gather intelligence on critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Germany, Switzerland and Greece despite repeated warnings from the host countries that Turkey stop spying on their residents...
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