Tag: Near and Middle East
Turkey: the West must learn to live with Erdogan and support civil society
The vote as the last means of expression. Without a free press, without the possibility of demonstrating, despite thousands of political opponents in prison, the Turks were more than 85%…
Putin, NATO, United States: Erdogan re-elected, his geopolitical plans
A very bad coup organizer, this Joe Biden… On the eve of the elections, Recep Tayyip Erdogan had warned his supporters about his American counterpart, who was seeking, according to…
Türkiye: Erdogan re-elected president
It’s go again. After already two decades at the head of Turkey, outgoing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the second round of the presidential election, this Sunday, May 28. He…
Turkey: “In the short term, Putin absolutely needs Erdogan to be re-elected”
Turkey is preparing for an unprecedented second round on Sunday May 28 to elect its president. For this new face-to-face, Recep Tayyip Erdogan leaves after the first round with a…
Presidential election in Turkey: these figures reveal an economy on the verge of crisis
It doesn’t matter who the candidate is, as long as the economy holds. The atmosphere in the trading rooms in Turkey could be summed up as follows in recent weeks,…
Türkiye: facing the unstoppable Erdogan, the great depression of the opposition
Recep Tayyip Erdogan could hardly have dreamed of better: the polls announced him beaten, but here he is the big winner of the first round of the presidential election on…
Arab League Summit: Bashar al-Assad, a return to the fore that challenges
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad took part in his first Arab League summit in more than a decade on Friday (May 19), marking his return to the Arab diplomatic scene after…
Presidential election in Turkey: between Erdogan and Kiliçdaroglu, a second round is looming
Not quite a win, but certainly not a loss. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Islamo-conservative autocrat at the head of the country for twenty years, said he was convinced, in the middle…
Israel-Gaza: what we know about the return to calm after five days of war
After five days of clashes by interposed rocket fire, calm has returned between the Gaza Strip and Israel. A few more rockets were fired in the quarter of an hour…
Iran: who are the four French nationals who are still detained?
A real relief for France. The French Benjamin Brière and the Franco-Irish Bernard Phelan, imprisoned in Iran, were released this Friday, May 12. “They will be in Paris tonight where…