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The Retreat from Afghanistan and Turkey’s Victory Day
August 30, 2021 Many military and intelligence experts predicted that the withdrawal from Afghanistan would not be an easy operation. With chaotic evacuations and the devastating twin bomb attacks of last Thursday, they proved right. Through the withdrawal Washington not … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Ataturk, Biden, fighting extremism, ISIS, ISIS-K, Kabul airport, NATO, Taliban, Turkey, Turkish foreign policy, US
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Coming to Grips with Taliban’s Comeback
August 23, 2021 On February 19, 2021, in his first address to the global audience at the 2021 Virtual Munich Security Conference President Biden said, “I speak today as President of the United States at the very start of my … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Biden, Kabul airport, Kabul evacuation, Middle East, Taliban, Turkey, Turkish foreign policy, US
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Turkey’s New Refugee Challenge
August 4, 2021 In my last post, dated August 2, I said that the increasing number of Afghans crossing into Turkey from Iran leads one to question whether the Kabul subcontract is just about the airport or more. Later in … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Blinken, Kabul airport, P-2 program, Taliban, Turkey, Turkey Afghanistan, Turkish foreign policy, US Afghanistan, US Turkey
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The Kabul Subcontract
August 2, 2021 Whether Turkish troops would stay at Kabul airport beyond withdrawal has become another controversial topic of our foreign and security policy. In my last post I asked the following questions: • Would Turkish troops fight the Taliban … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Kabul airport, Taliban, Turkey, Turkish foreign policy, US
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Turkey’s Dance with the Taliban
July 26, 2021 Turkey’s “offer” to remain at the Kabul airport beyond US and other nations’ withdrawal from Afghanistan has become another controversial foreign policy topic. Like the rest of our foreign and security policy issues, this too has immediately … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Kabul airport, Pakistan, Taliban, Turkey, Turkey West, Turkish foreign policy
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Afghanistan Withdrawal (2)
July 13, 2021 On July 8, 2021, President Biden delivered remarks on the drawdown of US forces in Afghanistan and took some questions. With the words “Afghanistan” and “failure” now glued to one another, and reports from Kabul reflecting nothing … Continue reading
The Biden-Erdogan Summit (2)
June 16, 2021 In an earlier post, in addressing West’s Turkey conundrum I said: “On the one hand, most Western governments now regard JDP’s Ankara only a “nominal ally” if not an adversary, but they cannot turn their back on … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Biden Erdogan, Kabul airport, Turkey US, Turkish foreign policy
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Afghanistan Withdrawal
June 10, 2021 An open-ended US/NATO military engagement in Afghanistan was never an option. The aim was achieving optimal conditions for withdrawal. On April 14, President Biden announced that US troops as well as forces deployed by America’s NATO Allies … Continue reading
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