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Erdoğan hails ‘new page in history’ as Kurdish militants begin disarmament
ANKARA (Realist English). Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared the beginning of a new era as militants from the outlawed...
Cairo urges U.S. to block Turkey-Libya maritime deal amid rising Eastern Mediterranean tensions
CAIRO (Realist English). Egypt has asked the United States to intervene and prevent Libya’s eastern parliament from ratifying a controversial...
Turkey and Qatar reshape Syria’s future as Trump pivots away from US intervention
DAMASCUS (Realist English). Turkey and Qatar have become pivotal players in President Donald Trump’s redefined Middle East, taking the lead...
Greece seeks Egypt’s help to block possible Libya-Turkey maritime deal
ATHENS (Realist English). Greece is expected to urge Egypt to intervene diplomatically in a bid to dissuade eastern Libya, controlled...
Turkey finds new route to pay for Russian gas as U.S. sanctions waiver expires
ANKARA (Realist English). Turkey has secured a workaround to continue paying for its multi-billion-dollar natural gas imports from Russia, following...
Eduard Polatov: The genocide of the Greeks in Turkey is one of the dark pages in the history of the Turkish people
YEREVAN (Realist English). 32 years have passed since the Phoenix Greek Society of Armenia, renamed to the Patrida organization, appealed...
Baku objects to the historical Silk Road: Kılıçdaroğlu offended the Baku regime
BAKU (Realist English). The Baku regime was outraged by the statement of the Turkish presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu "Neither the...
Erdoğan and his party may lose power for the first time since 2002
ANKARA (Realist English). On the eve of the elections, Turkish society remains deeply divided, even when it comes to such...
Erdogan’s rule is under real threat
ANKARA (Realist English). There are less than 10 days left before the presidential elections in Turkey. There, for the first...
China and U.S. hold 2025 maritime safety talks in Hawaii amid efforts to manage military risks
HONOLULU (Realist English). China and the United States convened the second working-group meeting and the 2025 annual session under the...
CBO cuts $1 trillion from Trump’s projected tariff revenues
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The Congressional Budget Office has sharply reduced its forecast for tariff revenues, cutting an estimated $1 trillion...
Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign from Congress after rift with Trump
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the most polarizing figures in US politics, announced on Friday that...
Putin says Russia ready for peace talks but awaits U.S.-Ukraine clarity on Trump’s proposal
MOSCOW (Realist English). President Vladimir Putin convened a video-link meeting of Russia’s Security Council on Friday, bringing together senior officials...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
Putin, Trump and Zelensky: is a trilateral meeting necessary?
MOSCOW (Realist English). Although more than a week has passed since the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S....
Russia’s elite: from Soviet nomenklatura to state corporations
MOSCOW (Realist English). The specificity of the Russian elite is defined by the nature of its origins: it grew out...
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