U.S. officials have confirmed to the Daily Beast the details of a Washington Post report revealing that Turkey last year deliberately burned roughly 10 Israeli spies who were working in Iran on the country’s nuclear program. The Daily Beast quotes former Israeli Mossad chief Danny Yatom describing the move as...

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Turkish diplomats scrambled for a second day to contain the fallout from a Washington Post bombshell published late Wednesday night, as journalists published more details surrounding allegations that top Turkish officials – including the country’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and its intelligence chief Hakan Fidan – deliberately burned 10...

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Turkish officials, including the country’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and its intelligence chief Hakan Fidan, deliberately burned “up to 10 Iranians who had been meeting inside Turkey with their [Israeli] Mossad case officers” by alerting Iran of their existence, according to an expose published late last night by the...

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An annual European Union (EU) report dedicated to to assessing Turkey’s progress in ascending to the bloc has evaluated Turkey in light of the mass anti-government protests that rocked the country last May and June. The government of Recep Tayyip Erdo has violently cracked down on demonstrators, suppressed coverage of...

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Deepening instability along Turkey’s border with Syria has analysts concerned that U.S. troops – who are in the theater to protect Turkish airspace from Syrian forces – are likely to be either directly targeted or caught in crossfires. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had for the better part of a...

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The government of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan recently doubled down on its intention to go through with a deal that would see Ankara complete a $3.4 billion missile deal with China, despite very explicit expressions of disappointment from NATO and U.S. officials all the way up to NATO Secretary-General Anders...

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There is an open debate among Turkey observers whether what is often rebuked as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s majoritarianism – which, in harsher critiques, is characterized as authoritarianism – can be untangled from his very public campaign to erode secularism in Turkish political life. The international community had...

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A series of announcements and moves out of Turkey – ranging from skepticism expressed by the country’s Turkish President Abdullah Gul to new developments in an anti-Israel show trial – have observers worrying that Ankara is backsliding on U.S.-driven efforts to achieve diplomatic rapprochement between Israel and Turkey. Israeli-Turkish relations...

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan met yesterday with top officials drawn from what Hamas describes as its political and military operations. A Hamas statement confirmed the attendance of among others Khaled Mashaal and Ankara-based Saleh al-Arouri. The two are respectively the terror group’s political bureau head and the founder of...

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Analysts have worried for months that the decline in Turkey’s regional and global position will heighten the frequency and intensity of diatribes by the country’s Islamist prime minister Recep Erdogan. In September Erodgan lambasted Jews for orchestrating the overthrow of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked president Mohammed Morsi, after Ankara had sought...

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