When this plan was thwarted by the Turks, the theater of war shifted to the Crimea, the peninsula that sits at the northern part of the Black Sea. The Russo-Turkish War and the subsequent Crimean War ...

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From the bloody Russo-Turkish wars ... in its response to the war in Ukraine, where Turkey has leveraged its strategic position to challenge Russia, assert its independence, and redefine its ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a telephone conversation with US counterpart Donald Trump on Sunday 16 March, ...

Israel’s first War of Independence, 1948-49, lasted 20 months ... It should be recalled, however, that in 2012 he founded the al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda affiliate. That fact does not bother Turkish ...