Turkey and Britain: from enemies to allies, 1914–1939doi:info:doi/10.1080/00263206.2018.1462166MacArthur-Seal, Daniel-JosephMiddle Eastern Studies
“I had some prejudices against the Kurds,” she says, “but I realised I had to overcome them.” Now she is working alongside her former enemies and persecutors, promoting an ideology diametrically opposed to ISIS with its subjugation of women and violent intolerance of minorities. “Isn’t ...
More recently, the alleged “coup” in Turkey has been laid at the feet of Gulen as President Recip Tayyip Erdogen continues his purge of Gulen followers. The interesting thing is that while the Turkish Delegation in America won’t criticize the Turkish government, they remain in full allegianc...
By the Treaty of Sèvres (1920; see Sèvres, Treaty of) the victorious Allies reduced the once mighty empire to a small state comprising the northern half of the Anatolian peninsula and the narrow neutralized and Allied-occupied Zone of the Straits. Sultan Muhammad VI accepted the treaty, but...
Admittedly part of the resulting impasse was due to the fatal lack of consistent policy by Turkey's western allies. On 21 August 2013 the Assad regime used chemical weapons in a horrific attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, reportedly killing over 1,000 people. A year earlier, on 20 ...
Soviet ties to Syria go back to the 1970s when the USSR was Syria’s main economic partner and one of its strongest political and military allies. Hafez al-Assad’s long-term vice-president from 1984-2005, Abdel Halim Khaddam, said in an interview from exile in Paris: “You have to un...
And here are USA’s formerly three key allies in Turkey, agreeing on the future road plan for Syrian peace, a plan first proposed by Russia and Putin, and then agreed upon between Erdogan and Putin. But Trump isn’t invited… As we see, UK/Theresa May aren’t invited either. ...
Their immediate challenge is securing al-Bab, an Islamic State-held city northeast of Aleppo which Kurdish-led fighters are racing to take, and which lies close to the front lines of Assad’s allies. Turkish-backed forces have made rapid gains since August, but largely through less heavily po...
Antalya and the first night on the boat We arrived in Antalya about 6:00 A.M. The bus station is huge and modern. No tour representative was there to meet us, although we were told that someone would be. We took a taxi to our hotel. He went through so many narrow allies with incr...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump punched back Friday at criticism that his Syria withdrawal is damaging U.S. credibility, betraying Kurdish allies and opening the door for a possible resurgence of the Islamic State.