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Turkey capable of handling threats on multiple fronts

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Turkey has been upgrading its status in international politics and has recently achieved a higher …
  • U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attends a news conference at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2020. (AFP Photo)
    Opinion

    With the U.S. elections five weeks away, the fight over the presidency keeps getting nastier. This is not your average disagreement between Republicans and Democrats. Even labels like globalist and patriot have long been overused. Nowadays, President Donald Trump’s critics claim that he will destroy American democracy if he gets four more years. If Joe Biden wins, others say, China will own the United States.
  • People walk toward the headquarters of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) as Gülenist coup plotters invade in the building during the night of the July 15 coup attempt, in the capital Ankara, Turkey, July 15, 2016. (AA Photo)
    Opinion

    Taking advantage of an unstable political system and toxic civilian-military relations, FETÖ infiltrated the Turkish military and exploited what it could
  • Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks to the media after talks with then-Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım in Ankara, Turkey, Aug. 24, 2016. (AP Photo)
    Opinion

    Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s plan to remove Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from power went down in the history of Turkish-U.S. relations. The fact that he made that statement some eight months ago does not make the situation any less grave. After all, those controversial words were not uttered by an inexperienced presidential candidate with no idea about foreign policy. Biden, who was President Barack Obama’s vice president, unveiled a thought-out and clear policy on Turkey.

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  • President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks during a rally against the FETÖ-led coup attempt, Istanbul, July 15, 2019. (AA Photo)

    The Gülenist Terror Group's (FETÖ) July 15 coup attempt in 2016 was one of the darkest moments in Turkish political history. It was a traumatic event for the Turkish bureaucracy and military.

  • AK Party deputy chair for foreign affairs Cevdet Yilmaz

    'What they have done in Turkey they are doing in all countries in which they operate,' says Cevdet Yilmaz

  • Hagia Sophia Mosque

    Today marks the fourth anniversary of the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey. This is a time to remember how the people foiled the Gülenist Terror Group's (FETÖ) conspiracy to overthrow the country’s democratically elected government.

  • 15 July 2016 Turkish Coup D'état Attempt

    The July 15 coup attempt was one of the most significant turning points in Turkey's contemporary history. Unlike previous coups and indeed, coup attempts, the Gülenist Terrorist Group (FETÖ), who shrouded themselves in the garb of a civic movement for decades, was the main actor behind the initiative. The putschists killed 250 people and wounded more than 2,000. Many governmental buildings, including Parliament and the Presidency, were also hit.

  • Terror in Türkiye

    The Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) opponents suffer from a common condition: failing to understand the nature of power, no matter how hard they try. They cannot grasp the practice of seizing and preserving political power with an eye on internal and external factors. For a long time, I attributed that shortcoming to the opposition’s prolonged lack of proximity to power. I imagined that they simply had no experience with the difficulty of striking a healthy balance between the development and implementation of policy and the generation of legitimacy needed to maintain one’s power. I was obviously aware that their commitment to neo-nationalist, Kemalist and leftists ideologies effectively blinded them, perpetuating their weakness.