If successful, it would boost Turkey’s aspirations to reshape the Middle East and burnish support ... or what it calls “democratic autonomy” — a status that would devolve more powers ...

Turkey has played a critical role in NATO security since its 1952 ascension to the alliance. Now the organization has few ...

Trump’s Middle East trip comes amid a heady few days for Turkey, with news the PKK would disarm and as it is set to host ...

A de-facto ceasefire takes hold in northern Iraq as Ankara details multi-country disarmament plans and Ocalan's future ...

On a macro level, Hassan said, “Erdogan’s ambitions are deeply rooted in a neo-Ottoman Empire vision that seeks to reassert Ankara as a dominant power ... Middle East, said a stronger Syria ...

The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria and the rise of Turkey as a resurgent ... regime has shattered the Middle East status quo. Once a linchpin for Iranian power projection into the Levant ...

WSJ breaks down how it happened—and what comes next for Syria and the Middle East. Illustration: Madeline Marshall DUBAI—Turkey and Israel are the main strategic beneficiaries of the collapse ...

One is that Syria in 2024 may be to Turkey what ... hegemony in the Middle East, and the outbreak of the Arab Spring in 2011 accelerated this process. Iran’s regional power grew in tandem ...

In most capitals across the Middle East, the news of Syrian ... Today, with Assad gone, this balance of power has rapidly shifted in Erdogan’s favor. Not only does Russia’s loss give Turkey freer rein ...

ISTANBUL, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Turkey aims to provide electricity to Syria and strengthen its power infrastructure, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar was quoted on Friday as saying, adding that ...

This move is also strategically significant in the context of the balance of power ... arms sales to Middle Eastern countries to preserve its qualitative military edge. The US-Turkey dispute ...