Leonid M. Issaev | 26 January 2017
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, relations between Egypt and Russia underwent a period of "stagnation" characterized by a weak level of interaction, as well as the decay of the old relations and forms of cooperation.
Dimitar Bechev | 18 January 2017 | TR
With Donald Trump on the brink of being sworn in as the new president, relations between U.S. and Russia are also on the verge of rapprochement. The incoming administration, which sees Moscow as an ally in the fight against the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) in Syria,
Galip Dalay | 23 August 2016 | AR
On August 20, a suicide bomber, reportedly aged between 12 and 14, carried out a deadly attack at a wedding party in the southeast city of Gaziantep in Turkey. The Islamic State of Iraq and the [...]
Dimitar Bechev | 09 August 2016 | AR
Russia and Turkey find themselves in the same boat, so it's only rational for them to de-escalate tensions.Are Russia and Turkey about to mend ties and put behind them the spat over the downed SU-24 [...]
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 27 July 2016
Executive Summary On July 15th a group of soldiers inside the Turkish military—ordinarily an expert executioner of military coups d’état through the usual the chain of command—carried out the seventh coup attempt in Turkey’s checkered [...]
Mesut Ozcan | 18 July 2016
The fall of Mosul to ISIL in June 2014 shocked Iraq and the world. After the fall of this city, ISIL continued its advance for some months.
Zeynep Koc | 17 July 2016 | AR
The night of the 15th of July has become a historical moment for Turkey. Turkish citizens, threatened by a group of Gulenist soldiers’ attempts to siege power via a coup, answered the call of President [...]
Mohammad Affan | 05 July 2016 | AR | TR
Different patterns of military hegemony and different strategies adopted by elected governments in resistance to this hegemony may be the main factors that explain the different outcomes between the successful military coup in Egypt 2013 and the failed coup attempt in Turkey 2016.
Galip Dalay | 03 July 2016 | AR | TR
Since the July 15, 2016 coup, Turkey has been living in what might be termed ‘momentous times’. Since then the country has been struggling to deal with the aftershocks of the failed coup
Basheer Nafi | 02 June 2016 | TR
Fears over political Islam’s general current shouldn't shake the pillars of a political movement with such a long history of struggle and sacrifice A number of leaders and cadres from the Tunisian Ennahda movement came [...]
