Turkey, unlike its NATO allies, is increasing its defense spending. Currently, Turkey spends 1.8 percent of its GDP on defense, versus an average of 1.6 percent for all NATO members. France, Britain, Poland, Bulgaria and Greece all spend between 2-2.6 percent.
Turkey has to spend more for several reasons, one of them being they still have [...]
Israeli and Greek leaders have been increasing diplomatic overtures with one another in an attempt to throw Turkey off balance. With this cooperation, Israel wants to distract Turkey from its attempts to become a Middle Eastern power, while a weakened Athens wants to show Ankara it has options for maintaining the balance of power in [...]
By John Stanton
Turkey is vital to United States’ national security interests. No country in the region deserves America’s cooperation—at all levels–more than Turkey’s current government. And no country is more ignorant of Turkish politics, culture and geographic importance than America. As former ambassador James Holmes, Executive Director of the American Turkish Council stated, “There is [...]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited some interesting spots over the July 4 weekend. Her itinerary included Poland and Ukraine, both intriguing choices in light of the recent Obama-Medvedev talks in Washington. But she also traveled to a region that has not been on the American radar screen much in the last two years [...]
Throughout the history of Greece, its geography has been both a blessing and a curse, a blessing because it allowed Greece to dominate the “known Western world” for a good portion of Europe’s ancient history due to a combination of sea access and rugged topography. In the ancient era, these were perfect conditions for a [...]
Summary
For Turkey, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an important role in its ongoing campaign against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party on both sides of the Turkish-Iraqi border — a campaign that is intensifying following the deaths of 11 Turkish soldiers at a border outpost. Yet recent tensions between Turkey and Israel may result in the withdrawal [...]
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