An increase in Turkish military deployments near the Turkish-Syrian border has raised fears of an extensive conflict east of the Euphrates. A significant deployment of heavy weapons has taken place near the strategic northern border town of Tal Abyad, controlled by the…

The consequences of Turkey’s military invasion of Cyprus in 1974 constitute, to this day, a sore point in the contemporary history of the island and of the western world: The military occupation, the forcible division, the violation of human rights, the massive…