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President Joe Biden: Stop the Second Armenian Genocide
After besieging and starving 120,000 Armenians of the South Caucasus Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) since December 2022, Azerbaijan launched a…
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Why have there been clashes over control of Nagorno-Karabakh?
Whether this leads to a lasting peace is not yet clear. Armenia and Azerbaijan have already fought two wars over…
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Putin-Erdogan Meeting Shows Turkey Unfit to Mediate Between Russia and Ukraine (Part Two)
*Read Part One. The Kremlin offered Turkey several major, highly attractive business projects at the bilateral summit in Sochi on…
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Putin-Erdogan Meeting Shows Turkey Unfit to Mediate Between Russia and Ukraine (Part One)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sternly rebuffed his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyp Erdogan’s ambitions to play peacemaker in the Russo-Ukrainian…
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Erdogan: Putin’s partner inside NATO?
It is also the NATO member most strategically located, sharing extended land borders with Syria, with hostile Kurdish militias, notably…
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Russia And Turkey Should Pay Reparations For Their Crimes
Moving forward to the present, the international community’s unwillingness to demand reparations from Russia and Turkey, two of the most…
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Turkey must act: Safeguarding freedom of navigation in the Black Sea
Russia suspended its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative on July 17 and revoked the guarantees of safe navigation,…
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Azerbaijan: Opposition Leader Arrested
(Berlin, July 25, 2023) – Azerbaijani authorities have arrested a prominent opposition leader and scholar, Gubad Ibadoghlu, on spurious criminal charges, Human…
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Pauline Bax Speaks to the House Foreign Affairs about the Role of Wagner in Russia
It is an honour to speak at this hearing. Pauline Bax ICG I am deputy director for the Africa Program…
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Turkey and Europe: A Great Irony of History
‘Until a decade ago, European democracies such as Sweden and the Netherlands, set norms that helped reform Turkey into a…
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The UN Security Council between Rifts and Reform
But the obstacles are many. Richard Gowan ICG A more modest vision of what the body should be and what…
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What if Russia Is Winning America’s Proxy War in Ukraine?
Washington is a world apart. Doug Bandow The American Conservative A war the United States supposedly isn’t waging hangs over…
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The future of U.S.-Turkey relations
Despite President Joe Biden’s declared democracy promotion agenda, relations between America and Turkey will likely remain stable and may even…
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Sanctioned Russian Bank to Begin Money Transfers to Turkey
Moscow and Ankara are poised to deepen their financial relationship by facilitating the flow of Russian money into the Turkish…
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Torture used by Russian forces in Ukraine may be state policy: UN
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Alice Jill Edwards said widespread use of torture by Russian forces appears deliberate. Al Jazeera…
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Putin’s man in Nato is becoming dangerous
It’s an issue that has already begun to paralyse European security, leaving Stockholm vulnerable and playing directly into the bloodied…
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