Turkish Airlines, Turkey’s national carrier, announced Thursday that it is launching a new route connecting Tel Aviv with Izmir, which will begin operating on May 29, on a four-flights-per-week basis, Globes reported. With a total population of nearly four million people, Izmir – often called the “Pearl of the Aegean”...

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Why are American professors of Middle East studies attending an Istanbul conference chaired by former Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) board member Sami Al-Arian, who pled guilty to conspiring to provide services to PIJ – a U.S.-designated terrorist organization – while teaching at the University of South Florida? And why, as...

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In an exclusive press briefing hosted by The Israel Project in Washington, D.C. on Monday, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said “Israel will not tolerate an Iranian presence in Syria. Period.” If diplomatic negotiations fail to resolve the crisis, Lapid insisted, Israel “will take any measures necessary.” Lapid – one...

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Turkey is turning into a new Pakistan, “a perpetually failing state whose military leadership has tolerated and advanced a vision of political Islam deeply hostile to U.S. and Western interests”, Eli Lake warned in a column published by Bloomberg on Friday. After the Trump administration warned in January that American...

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Following the arrests of an Israeli-Arab and a Turkish citizen, the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal intelligence agency accused Turkish authorities of turning a “blind eye” to the efforts of Hamas to raise money and arrange terror attacks, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Shin Bet’s investigation found that Cemil Tekeli,...

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An Iranian blogger, whose extradition was sought by Iran because she wrote for an Israeli publication, arrived in Israel from Turkey on Thursday. Appearing with editor-in-chief David Horovitz at The Times of Israel’s Jerusalem office, the publication she wrote for, Neda Amin told reporters, “I am safe now,” because no...

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An Iranian journalist facing the death penalty in her home country has been granted asylum in Israel, where she is expected to arrive shortly. Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotoveli said on Monday that Neda Amin would be arriving in Israel “in the coming days,” though her initial plans to come to...

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Israel’s Shin Bet security agency announced Thursday that it had broken up a Hamas money laundering ring. The ring, which was established early last year, was an attempt to evade Israeli sanctions barring the terrorist group from moving money freely, The Times of Israel reported. Under the scheme, two members of...

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The United States government has formally announced that it’s going to arm Kurdish militias in Syria in a bid to capture the city of Raqqa from ISIS, the “capital” of the Islamic State’s “caliphate.” It’s about time. The YPG, or Kurdish Protection Units, is the largest faction in the Syrian...

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Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected charges that it described as “baseless slander,” made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that it was Judaizing Jerusalem in a “racist and discriminatory” way, in a statement released Tuesday. Erdogan had vowed that his government would work with the Palestinian Authority to end...

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