Isranet Daily Briefing
Monday, January 27th 2025 / Monday, January 27th 2025
Turkey’s Vision Transforms Post-Assad Syria: Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, JISS, Jan. 14, 2025 Turkey’s New Threat to Israel: Yoni Ben Menachem, Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Jan. 15, 2025 How Turkey Leverages Itself Between East, Western Worlds to Maximize Geopolitical Clout: Loqman Radpey, Jerusalem Post, Jan. 19, 2025 How Turkey Is Seizing […]
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Analysis
Monday, January 27th 2025
Shahram Sabzevari World Crunch, Jan. 23, 2025 “The Zangezur corridor is a symbol of close and fruitful collaborations between Turkey and Azerbaijan.” Discreet at first, Turkey is now open in its backing for Syria’s new ruler, Ahmad al-Sharaa, the Islamist rebel whose forces toppled the Iran-backed Bashar al-Assad. Indeed, Assad’s fall is affecting ties between the Islamic […]
Loqman Radpey Jerusalem Post, Jan. 19, 2025 “Turkey’s partnership with Qatar in financing Islamic movements reveals a coordinated strategy to dominant Sunni Muslim communities globally, especially after the weakening of Iran’s “axis of resistance.”” Turkey’s bold foreign policy moves in recent years reflect a determined effort to redefine its regional and global role. From its […]
Yoni Ben Menachem Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Jan. 15, 2025 “Western intelligence sources suggest Erdogan harbors ambitions of reviving the Ottoman Empire, seeking to position himself as a modern-day sultan or caliph overseeing Sunni forces in the Middle East, including Jerusalem, which was once part of the Ottoman Empire.” Rising Turkish Influence […]
Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak JISS, Jan. 14, 2025 “Turkish ambitions in Syria appear to extend beyond the territorial.” The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime – brought about by Syrian opposition forces with Turkey’s backing – has created an unprecedented opportunity for Ankara to redefine its role as a regional power in line with its […]
Friday, January 24th 2025
Itamar Eichner Ynet News, Jan. 22, 2025 “Don’t you see the devastation behind you? What victory is this? Do you never look at the balance sheet?” Members of Hamas‘ political bureau met with Turkish intelligence officials on October 7, 2023, the same day Hamas launched a devastating attack on Israel, killing over 1,200 people, Turkish […]
Outside Source
Thursday, December 12th 2024
By David Bensoussan The author is a professor of science at the University of Quebec. For 54 years, the Assad dictatorship, led by father and son, ruled Syria with an iron fist, even resorting to chemical weapons against their own population. Since the onset of the civil war in 2011, the country has splintered into […]
Wednesday, November 20th 2024
Levent Kenez Nordic Monitor, Nov. 19, 2024 “I am in a war. I do not have the luxury of showing my feelings.” Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, during a November 15 interview broadcast on A Haber, a government-aligned television channel run by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s family, stated that he is “in a war” and […]
Nadav Shragai Israel Hayom, Nov. 14, 2024 “Erdogan’s congratulations to President-elect Donald Trump on his victory should remind the American president of Turkey’s deceptive overtures to Israel just two years ago.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan‘s support for Hamas and hostility toward Israel have reached a critical point, with Turkey providing sanctuary to Hamas operatives while […]
Sinan Ciddi Washington Examiner, Nov. 16, 2024 “Erdogan’s championing of Hamas is entrenched. Turkey is the only country inside the NATO alliance and, certainly, the only U.S. ally that openly embraces Hamas as a group of “resistance fighters.”” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan feels he has reason to be optimistic. He was bracing for the election of Vice President Kamala […]
Michael Rubin Middle East Forum, Nov. 4, 2024 “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took a formidable military and sought to remake it in his own image.” A video circulating on Telegram and other social media suggests North Korean Special Forces dispatched to fight Ukraine on Russia’s behalf have seen their first combat. The video purports to interview the single North Korean […]
Monday, June 17th 2024
Noa Lazimi JNS, June 9, 2024 “What can be more ironic than Erdoğan pretending to show concern for the welfare of Gazans in early October 2023, while at the same time striking about 140 civilian targets in northern Syria, including bombing hospitals?” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seizes every opportunity to criticize the IDF’s […]
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