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Turkey in search for new fighter jet...
Security issues imply ensuring a sufficient level of protection of vital objects and interests of the state. Among them, a special place is occupied by military security, i.e. constant strengthening of defence capability and equipping the army with the necessary arsenal of armaments and combat equipment to repel external threats and to solve military tasks specified by the military doctrine and the state leadership. Turkey, being a member of the NATO bloc, solves the tasks related to the renewal of the armament and combat equipment fleet in two ways…
The US Persists in Its Attempts to Reset Its Relationship with Turkey
Despite a solid list of differences and contradictions between Washington and Ankara (involving some regional issues related to the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the South Caucasus, anti-Russian sanctions, relations with Russia and China, Armenian, Cypriot, Kurdish and Palestinian issues, etc.), Turkey still remains an important NATO member and a military-political ally of the United States. The dynamics of regional events in the Middle East, associated with the ongoing military conflict between Hamas and Israel, have again revealed some contradictions between the United States and Turkey…
Turkey steps up diplomacy in the Mediterranean
As a country at the crossroads of three continents (Asia, Africa and Europe), Turkey remains a key regional player and has a fairly active diplomatic policy. Of course, not all of Ankara’s foreign policy doctrines declared over the past 10-15 years have delighted its neighbours. In particular, when it comes to neo-Ottomanism and Turkey’s intention to restore its former influence in the post-Ottoman space, almost most (if not all) of its geographical neighbours that were formerly part of the Ottoman state are concerned about Ankara’s desire to do so. At the same time…
