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Stories under this heading cover Türkiye as well as the Levant – a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia, consisting of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Palestine.
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Ten people were killed when Israel attacked an aid centre in Gaza
30 June 2025
According to the news channel Al Jazeera and the Palestinian news agency Wafa, at least ten Palestinians who were desperately seeking aid from a controversial and heavily criticised United States–backed organisation have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza over the last 48 hours, according to the besieged enclave’s Government Media Office.
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Opinion: Armenia caught in a peculiar transit trap
15 February 2018
"The South Caucasus is facing an infrastructure development boom. However, Armenia is in stark isolation, with no major project passing through the country.", writes Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed
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Intensive diplomatic contacts between Turkey and the United States expected next week
9 February 2018
American and Turkish officials and diplomats on both sides are trying to defuse a crisis in the relations between the two NATO allies.
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Monday Commentary: Turkey’s excursion into Syria is costly both in human terms, as well as politically
6 February 2018
President Erdogan is learning the hard way the lesson that it is easy to get into a messy situation such as Syria, it is much more difficult to get out, writes Dennis Sammut
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Turkey eyes more exports to eurozone countries as trade deficit soars
3 February 2018
In 2017, more than half of Turkish exports, which totaled USD 157.1 billion, went to the 28 EU countries.
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Updated: Istanbul court orders the release of Amnesty International's Turkish Chair. He was later rearrested
1 February 2018
The Turkish government had accused the group of "aiding armed terrorist organizations" through civil society actions in Turkey.
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Opinion: Armenia, the Turkish threat, and the Russian antidote
31 January 2018
The Afrin events are being used to assert the notion that without Russian military guarantees, and a Russian military base deployed in Armenia, Yerevan will be under a constant threat from a potential Turkish offensive, says Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed
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Turkey launches military operation across the Syrian border
21 January 2018
Early reports suggest that the Kurdish militias are using a tactic of melting into the civilian population rather than defending military positions, complicating the Turkish operation
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Ankara summons the Russian and Iranian Ambassadors over Syria
10 January 2018
The Turkish Foreign Ministry told the Russian and Iranian envoys that ongoing Syrian government operations against moderate opposition groups violate a three-way agreement that aims to de-escalate tension in Idlib.
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Russia, Turkey and Iran stick together, for now
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Russia, Turkey and Iran stick together, for now
8 January 2018
2017 saw an unprecedented level of co-operation between Russia, Turkey and Iran in their dealings with regional challenges and outside pressures, but the relationship is more tactical than strategic, and there are plenty of issues ahead that will put it to the test, writes Dennis Sammut in this commentary for commonspace.eu