Open Dialogue Research Journal
In a sharp escalation of rhetoric, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has accused Israel of attempting to position Turkey as a “new enemy” following Iran, amid increasingly tense exchanges between officials from both countries. Fidan emphasized that ending Israel’s occupation of Lebanese territory and ensuring the protection of civilians are urgent priorities […]
The growing Israeli-Turkish rivalry might soon expand to Jordan. Turkiye, Syria, and Jordan signed a trilateral MoU in early April on transport cooperation that followed their meeting more than half a year prior last September where they first committed to reviving the Hejaz Railway. This late-Ottoman project connected Istanbul with Medina and Mecca but […]
The Caspian Sea has long ceased to be merely a vast inland body of water rich in hydrocarbon resources. It has become an arena where energy interests, border delimitation issues, and growing military ambitions of the littoral states intersect. Against this backdrop, the announcement by the Turkmen company Şanly Mekan […]
With the prospect of war involving Iran, Western analysts have rediscovered the South Caucasus, now rebranded as a “strategic bridge” linking Europe to Asia. The narrative is simple enough: as instability engulfs the Middle East and relations with Russia remain frozen, Europe can bypass both by investing in a so-called Middle Corridor […]
A growing confrontation is unfolding between governments around the world and major American technology platforms – one that goes far beyond regulation and touches the core of how speech is controlled in the digital age. Recent developments in Europe, Asia, and Latin America suggest that this is no longer a […]
The Druze seem to be fine with this since they’d prefer being Israel’s junior partner over the risk of being slaughtered by their non-Druze “compatriots” like what happened to the Alawites last spring. Israel announced on Friday that it bombed Syrian military positions “in response to the events yesterday, in which Druze […]
If Turkiye launches a military intervention in Iran along the lines of its earlier ones in Iraq and Syria to stop what it considers to be Kurdish terrorists, then its Azerbaijani ally might make a move on what it considers to be “South Azerbaijan”, and then the Gulf Arabs and […]
After Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government came to power in Armenia in 2018 as a result of the “velvet revolution”, the course of maintaining close relations with Moscow in the general context of Yerevan’s “multi-vector maneuvering” generally remained for several more years. However, after a heavy military defeat from Azerbaijan […]
Armenia might have to accept the return of the ~200,000 Azeris who fled during the chaotic Soviet collapse (and the descendants), grant them equal language rights, teach in schools that they consider Armenia to be “Western Azerbaijan”, and possibly agree to a Schengen-like deal with Azerbaijan. Vice President JD Vance’s […]
The timing amidst continued US-mediated talks between Russia and Ukraine suggests that the US expects this ramped-up pressure to raise the chances of coercing concessions from Russia. Vice President JD Vance’s trips to Armenia and Azerbaijan were aimed at advancing several interconnected strategic goals. The most immediate was making progress on implementing the “Trump […]
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