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China’s growing footprint in Pakistan and Bangladesh, coupled with Turkey’s inroads into Dhaka, could pull India into increasingly tricky diplomatic terrainChina’s debt diplomacy has created a significant strategic challenge for India, as Beijing’s expanding influence over both Pakistan and Bangladesh is reshaping the geopolitical landscape in South Asia. This convergence, recently highlighted by
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated a “new page in history” has turned, after the Kurdish PKK militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in the country began laying down their weapons.
Senior defence officials from China and Turkey publicly commended the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) for its combat performance and operational readiness following a four-day conflict with India in May. These rare, coordinated endorsements came during high-level visits to Air Headquarters in Islamabad, where both Chinese and Turkish delegations praised the PAF’s “decisive” and “battle-proven”
The disarmament of the P.K.K., a group that has battled since the 1980s for Kurdish independence, could end a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people.
India is recalibrating its defence and diplomatic strategy in the Mediterranean and Eurasian regions by offering advanced weapon systems—including the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile and the Akash air defence system—to Greece and Cyprus, both of which have longstanding tensions with Turkey.This move comes as Turkey, traditionally seen as a peripheral irritant, has emerged as a vocal and active
Outsiderness in the Arctic is not a fixed condition but rather a relational and narrated identity for states such as Turkey and France, and institutions like the EU.
The Kurdish militant PKK group’s disarmament process will happen quickly but establishing a Turkish political framework to ensure the switch to democratic politics will be crucial, its jailed founder announced Wednesday.
In the first footage of him to be released publicly in 25 years, Abdullah Ocalan said the P.K.K. insurgency against Turkey would be replaced by politics.
Footage shows animal leaping over wall in Lahore before attack that left victims with face and arm injuriesThe owners of a pet lion that escaped from a farmhouse and injured a woman and her two children in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore have been…
Fire on island being fanned by gale-force winds, with blazes also raging on mainland Greece and in other parts of EuropeA wildfire fanned by gale-force winds has forced the evacuation of about 5,000 people on the Greek island of Crete, authorities and …