President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, could gain the most from the downfall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria. Not only would it boost his influence in the region, but it would also enable him to pursue ambitious plans for creating a major gas hub.

Netanyahu and Erdoğan vie for power in the Middle East as Israel and Türkiye move to exploit the vacuum left by Assad’s fall “Among us leaders, there are only two left. Now, it’s me and

“There are currently only two leaders left in the world -- there is me and there is Vladimir Putin,” Erdogan said recently, reflecting the respect for the Kremlin leader. Putin, in ...

Xi Jinping and Donald Trump might dispute the Turkish president’s global rankings. At a regional level, however, Erdoğan has a good claim to be one of two strongman leaders that are reshaping the Middle East. His hated rival, Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, is the other.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, speaking on Kossuth radio, has expressed the opinion that Ukraine could still change its decision regarding the "Christmas ceasefire". Source: European Pravda, citing Magyar Nemzet Details: Speaking about his "peacekeeping mission",

The rapid downfall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad has touched off a new round of delicate geopolitical maneuvering between Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan. With the dust ...

In 1952, a very secular Turkey joined NATO amid concerns that the Soviet Union be problematic. Membership in NATO provided Turkey with a hedge against invasion. Then, when the Soviet Union fell, Neo-Ottomanism began to rise.

The idea that Bashar Assad’s fall represents the birth of applied neo-Ottomanism sounds odd, but that’s what is happening.

More than 25,000 Syrians have left Turkey for Syria in the past two weeks, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya told the state news agency Anadolu on Tuesday. Turkey has taken in more refugees from war-torn Syria than any other country.

Failure abroad always sends shock waves home. Khamenei, who has so far never failed to crush all those aligned against him, is now likely obsessed with how his foreign mistakes may embolden his enemies, both foreign and domestic.

In September 2015, Russia intervened militarily in Syria’s civil war, propping up Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship as it teetered on