Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said NATO needs to take seriously Turkey's expansionist ambitions and President ...

The Ottoman Empire, founded in 1299 ... In a speech in Ankara on August 30, Erdogan said, in part: As some historians have said, we are not a society that has an army—we are a nation that ...

In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” A Catholic Albanian, a Greek Orthodox, or a Jew who converted to Islam would become a Turk, which meant accepting Islam. At the time, the word ...

Greek Defense Minister Dendias is sounding the alarm that Turkish President Erdogan's aggression actions in the Middle East, ...

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But there the similarity ends. Ataturk was, at most, an agnostic who felt that Islam, as practiced in the Ottoman Empire, was an enemy of progress; Erdogan is a devout Muslim who often waxes ...

Since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, Turkey has taken a clear stance against the Assad regime, supporting opposition and rebel forces. Following the fall of the Alawite regime and the rise of ...

Erdogan to shut down the major US Incirlik ... officially recognize the alleged mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire a century ago as "genocide". The nonbinding legislation had already ...

As the Ottoman Empire, Turkey gained the epithet of 'Sick ... The success was not smooth, mainly because of Gulen/Erdogan friction. In a February 2023 Hizmet meeting in California, involving ...

The unloved reptile and the slithery behavior often ascribed to it could be a fitting metaphor for Turkey lately — starting with President Erdogan’s rolling out the welcome mat for a Hamas delegation ...