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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa (L) shake hands as they hold a joint press conference after their meeting at Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkiye on February 4, 2025.

Collision course: Are Israel and Turkey headed for confrontation?

By JONATHAN SPYER

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to the media at NATO’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington last year. Turkey under Erdogan is no longer a NATO ally in spirit; it is a rogue state pursuing an expansionist, Islamist agenda that threatens stability, states the writer.

Erdogan's Turkey is the nerve centre of a broader Islamist resurgence

A digital bilboard displays a picture of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and a slogan which reads, "The nation is standing up for its will", on the day Imamoglu was jailed as part of a corruption investigation, in Istanbul, Turkey, March 23, 2025.

Six year legal fight: how Istanbul's mayor became Erdogan's prime target

ACTIVISTS PLACE a banner reading ‘For Democracy in Syria, defend Rojava’ on top of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, December 16, 2024. The civil institutions in northeastern Syria encompass the semi-autonomous Rojava region and include oil and gas fields, border crossings, and airports, the writer says.

How can there be a brighter future for Syria’s Kurds?

By NEVILLE TELLER

20 June 2024, North Rhine-Westphalia, Duesseldorf: Ekrem Imamoglu, Mayor of Istanbul, stands in front of a Turkish flag at a reception in the city hall.

Istanbul mayor Imamoglu denies terrorism charges, court document shows

By REUTERS

20 June 2024, North Rhine-Westphalia, Duesseldorf: Ekrem Imamoglu, Mayor of Istanbul, stands in front of a Turkish flag at a reception in the city hall.

Turkey detains Erdogan's main rival on array of charges

By REUTERS

A demonstrator holds a picture of jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan during a rally in Diyarbakir, Turkey, February 27, 2025.

What does call for disarmament of Kurdish militants in Turkey mean for Middle East?

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Julani, in Damascus on December 23, 2024.

Syria's Sharaa to discuss defense pact with Turkey's Erdogan, sources say

By REUTERS

Leader the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu, accompanied by Canan Kaftancioglu, chair of the party's Istanbul branch, and Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, addresses their supporters in Istanbul, Turkey May 12, 2022.

Turkey's opposition faces barrage of arrests, investigations

By REUTERS

Members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) walk back to their outpost near Erbil, Kurdistan region of Iraq on Saturday, June 10, 2023. The KDPI, a leftist Kurdish group of Iran that has been running an armed struggle against the Islamic Republic's regime in Iran from exile for decades

Kurdish military official to ‘Post’: 'We did not acquire drones from Iran'

An illustrative image of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Erdogan says Turkey can 'crush' all terrorists in Syria

By REUTERS

Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane TC-JVV taxies to take-off in Riga International Airport

Despite tensions, Turkish Airlines holds onto Tel Aviv flight slots

By Stav Livne/Globes/TNS

US President-elect Donald Trump, during his first presidential term, and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pose for a group photo at a NATO summit in Britain, in 2019.

Why Erdogan’s Turkey undermines US and NATO security interests

By ERIC R MANDEL

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks after a signing ceremony in Ankara, Turkey September 4, 2024.

Muslim countries will not answer Erdogan's call for unity, Turkish expert predicts

By Peled Arbeli

TURKEY’S PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan sounds like, and acts like, an enemy of Israel. It is overdue that he be properly recognized as one.

Turkey, Iraq sign accord on military, security, counter-terrorism cooperation

By REUTERS

Recep Tayyip Erdogan (seated) attends a meeting of the heads of state of the North Atlantic Council, Indo-Pacifc Partners, and the European Union at the 2024 NATO Summit in Washington, DC, last month.

Erdogan's rule crushes freedom, incites unnecessary escalation

By AMOTZ ASA-EL

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Ozgur Ozel, with a poster of modern Turkey's founder Ataturk in the background, speaks during a rally in Istanbul, Turkey, May 18, 2024.

'Bombs fired at sleeping Jews': Turkish opposition leader condemns Hamas, Oct. 7

By MAARIV ONLINE , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis pose after a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, May 13, 2024.

Lacking warmth, Turkey and Greece meet as show for the West

By DEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE