At the 41 st Istanbul Film Festival, there was such a rich variety of cinematic fare the critic doesn’t know where to start.
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After a two-year hiatus because of Covid, the Istanbul Film Festival is back, reports Sayed Abdel-Meguid from Istanbul
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Sayed Abdel-Meguid discusses Turkey in the light of the Ukrainian crisis and the sanctions to be imposed on Russia.
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The repercussions of the war in Ukraine are being felt the world over, not least in the already troubled Middle East
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The Turkish TV series The Club has been revisiting the country’s cosmopolitan past while exposing some old wounds.
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The Turkish president is expected to visit Saudi Arabia next month as part of Ankara’s efforts to mend relations with regional leaders.
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Talks are taking place between Turkey and Armenia that could lead to the normalisation of relations between the two countries
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The Council of Europe’s warning to Turkey over human rights violations is part of complex calculations regarding the relations between Europe and Turkey.
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Sayed Abdel-Meguid sums up the internal political situation in Turkey
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Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party has been playing on hostility to Syrian refugees as a way of directing attention away from its own shortcomings,
writes Sayed Abdel-Meguid
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Presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey are still 19 months away, writes Sayed Abdel-Meguid, but politicians and political parties are already gearing up for what observers have described as a watershed event
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Sayed Abdel-Meguid illuminates the regional situation surrounding Turkish-Syrian relations
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Ankara “fully supports the interim coalition government of Syria, who are the representatives of the Syrian people,” the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu declared a couple of weeks ago, but what might that be? Cavusoglu was, in fact, referring to a newly formed coalition among a handful of Syrian opposition figures from some Turkish backed militant factions that control only a very small portion of Syrian territory.
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Al-Ahram Weekly looks at Erdogan’s unfolding game of nations
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Taking stock of the Kabul bombing from the Turkish viewpoint
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Taking stock of rising tensions over Syrian refugees in Turkey
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Is Turkey courting Israel?
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Al Ahram Weekly assesses Erdogan’s latest venture in Afghanistan
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Turkey’s foreign policy continues its wayward course under Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s direction to the confusion of friends and sceptics alike
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Sayed Abdel-Meguid follows through US-Turkish relations
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