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Checking the YPG’s ascendance in Syria could bring the PKK back to the negotiating table, ultimately making Turkey more amenable to Kurdish enclaves across the border.

While much of the world is focused on the Strait of Hormuz, tensions are also mounting rapidly in the East Mediterranean.

If the PKK is confirmed as the perpetrator, Ankara will almost surely launch retaliation in Iraq or Syria, and Washington will have little choice but to stand aside.

The president, a former Istanbul mayor, has a rival in the current one.

Four experts discuss the opposition's landslide victory and its implications for Turkish politics generally and President Erdogan's future specifically.

The truth is that Ankara feels threatened by Moscow, but security concerns, mistrust of the West, and an inability to secure American missiles left Erdogan searching for an alternative.

Although massive state resources have been mobilized against Imamoglu, the opposition candidate has taken up the mantle of the underdog who could challenge the status quo nationally, just as Erdogan himself did two decades ago.

The Kurdish-led force cannot hold the northeast on its own, and withdrawing coalition support would bolster Assad and Moscow’s interests.

يشكّل خط الأنابيب بين العراق وتركيا ملكية مشتركة بين الدولتين ويخضع للاتفاقيات الدولية. ومن وجهة نظر أنقرة، تسمح هذه الاتفاقيات لـ «إقليم كردستان العراق» بالوصول إلى خط الأنابيب مباشرةً، لكنّ بغداد ترى الأمور بطريقة مختلفة وقد رفعت دعوى على تركيا أمام "غرفة التجارة الدولية". وبينما تُشرف هيئة التحكيم في هذه