Is NATO Sidelining Turkiye? “Turkish Question” Risks Weakening Atlantic Alliance’s South-eastern Flank By Uriel Araujo Erdogan demands unconditional NATO defence trade access and bids to host the 2026 summit. Amid ever persistent tensions over Turkiye’s S-400 purchase and exclusion from F-35… Read More ›
India-Pakistan Conflict Escalates, Entangled In Middle Eastern And Caucasian Geopolitical Rivalries By Uriel Araujo The India-Pakistan conflict, intensified by the 2025 Pahalgam attack and Operation Sindoor, draws Middle Eastern powers like Israel and Turkiye, alongside Azerbaijan, into a complex web of… Read More ›
Is “Balkanization” Back In The Cards For Syria? By Andrew Korybko The situation remains very combustible and could easily explode at the slightest spark. Russia and the US rarely agree on much, but their top diplomats just sounded the alarm about… Read More ›
Russia-Ukraine: The Ball’s In Trump’s Court After The Latest Istanbul Talks By Andrew Korybko The mixed signals that he sent on Friday suggest that he hasn’t made up his mind about what to do. The first bilateral Russian-Ukrainian talks in over… Read More ›
Pan-Turkism Was Dealt A Blow After Central Asia Threw Northern Cyprus Under The Bus By Andrew Korybko Some in Russia are breathing a sigh of relief that Pan-Turkism isn’t taken as seriously by the Central Asian countries as they thought and… Read More ›
Navigating The Aegean: Greek-Turkish Rivalry And NATO’s Growing Fractures By Uriel Araujo Ongoing Greece-Turkiye disputes over Aegean and Mediterranean claims expose NATO’s internal divisions, as Turkiye’s aggressive “Blue Homeland” doctrine and neo-Ottoman ambitions clash with Greece’s defensive militarization, undermining the alliance’s… Read More ›
The Trans-Caspian Corridor: A Geopolitical Gamble In The Shadow Of NATO By Uriel Araujo The Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (Middle Corridor) emerges as a vital trade link between Europe and Asia, backed by a €12 billion EU investment and praised by… Read More ›
CSTO Under Siege: How the West and Turkiye are Rewriting Eurasia’s Security Map By Uriel Araujo Turkiye and the West are exploiting Armenia’s frustrations with the CSTO to promote the concept of a “Turan Army,” aiming to bring NATO closer to… Read More ›
Can Israel And Turkiye Manage Their Escalating Rivalry In Syria? By Andrew Korybko The “deconfliction mechanism” that they’re reportedly discussing would likely be insufficient for resolving their security dilemma and might thus only delay what could be an inevitable clash. Israel… Read More ›
Turkiye’s Black Sea Power Play: Will Erdogan’s Naval Ambitions Spark Clash With Russia? By Uriel Araujo Turkiye’s growing naval presence in the Black Sea, leveraging the Montreux Convention to limit Russia’s fleet while expanding operations in strategic areas, signals Erdogan’s ambition… Read More ›
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