Tag: Turkey

The Tatlidil Forum was established in 2011 by prime minister David Cameron and Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to “facilitate and strengthen relations” between the two countries. Tatlidil means “sweet talk” in Turkish.  Since it launched, the annual off-the-record two-day conference, which takes place alternatively in Turkey and Britain, has been attended by a wide […]

Turkey is using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to seek a green light for a new invasion of autonomous, Kurdish-led regions of Syria.  Such an invasion would not only bring further death and displacement to the Kurds, but destabilise the region and deepen the gulf between Nato and Russia, Kurdish politicians have told Declassified. Ankara has […]

Britain has quietly resumed arms exports to its NATO ally Turkey, whose brutal operation in Syria targets the UK’s key Kurdish allies fighting Islamic State (ISIS). Turkish-backed militias are complicit in human rights abuses and include former members of ISIS