Turkey

SRINAGAR: A petition was submitted to the J&K High Court last week by former Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industries (KCCI) president Mubeen Shah, who has been under the scrutiny of Indian security agencies for alleged ties to Pakistan-backed separatist groups. Shah was detained under the Public Safety Act (PSA) following the abrogation of Article […]

The recent events around Nagorno Karabakh need a closer look. My last article in The New Indian did try to provide a brief background and outline, of the recent Azeri-Armenian conflict over this hill region; it also mentioned that Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan – who is a result of an orchestrated colour revolution – is so hopelessly pro-West […]

India needs flexibility in its tightrope walk over an extraordinarily treacherous geopolitical minefield

India’s humanitarian aid to the earthquake-hit country of Syria continued as the seventh C-17 military plane carrying humanitarian relief material under ‘Operation Dost’ reached the West Asian country. With the latest flight, India’s aid to the war-ravaged country increased from six to 23 tonnes. Earlier on February 9, the Syrian Embassy in India had asked […]

India increases its relief to earthquake-affected Syria from 6 to 23 tonnes

Referring to New Delhi as ‘dost’, Turkey’s Ambassador to India Firat Sunel on Tuesday expressed his gratitude to the Indian government for sending relief and humanitarian aid to the quake-hit nation where more than 4,300 people died in the aftermath of a devastating 7.8-magnitude quake that struck an area close to the Syrian border. "Dost" […]

This development comes after POJK President Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhary proposed the setting up of Kashmir Committee to the Turkish parliamentarians.

As the holiday season turns violent in Paris, Kurdish activists blame the Turkish Secret Service for the attack on them

Turkish warplanes carried out air strikes on Kurdish militant bases in northern Syria and northern Iraq on Sunday, destroying 89 targets. As per  Turkey’s defence ministry said this was done in retaliation to last Sunday’s terror attack in Central Istanbul that claimed six lives. The strikes targeted bases of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) […]

Analysts over the world have been watching the recent rise of Turkey with extreme interest. It made a certain kind of sense when experts like Brzezinski or Friedman predicted Turkey’s rise as a regional power. But that kind of sense that builds itself up around forecasts printed on the pages of a book usually gets […]