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Turkey’s neo-Ottoman ambitions: Erdogan, Hamas, and threats to Israel - opinion

Last week, we learned from US Vice President JD Vance that the Trump Administration considers Turkey eligible to receive F-35 fighter jets. It is reviewing how Turkey can legally get the fighter jets

|ByYISRAEL MEDAD
Syria's newly appointed president for a transitional phase Ahmed al-Shaara meets with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, February 4, 2025.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan gesture as they pose for a photo, at a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza war, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025.

Turkey's Erdogan is waging war on the West and Israel - NATO must not ignore it - opinion

It is time to confront Erdogan about his much-too-close alignment with Russia, China, and Iran; his military occupation of northern Cyprus and northern Syria; and the war he wages against Israel.

|ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
The restored western face of the Parthenon, Greece, July 2, 2026.

After 200 years in ruin: Greece unveils complete restoration of Parthenon's western pediment

The external scaffolding hiding the Parthenon’s western face was removed in early June following the completion of the monument’s back wall.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Members of the Armenian community in Jaffa perform a pray during a memorial service held to mark the 106th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, at the Armenian Church of Saint Nicholas, in Jaffa, April 24, 2021.

Israel officially recognizes Armenian Genocide after decades of diplomatic friction - analysis

Israel’s recognition of the genocide has been decades in the making. It's been a strange aspect of Israel’s history that, for many years, the Armenian genocide was downplayed in official circles.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

Armenia PM steps down to clear way for early elections

He said on his Facebook page he was returning power received from citizens to them, so they could decide the future of the government through free and fair elections.

APRIL 25, 2021ByREUTERS
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan speaks during his address to the nation in Yerevan, Armenia November 12, 2020. Armenian Prime Minister Press Service/Tigran Mehrabyan/PAN Photo via REUTERS

Galilee Gold: A noble novel inspired by a Bedouin sheikh

Many echoes in Pam’s beautifully crafted novel, arouse the reader’s interest.

APRIL 22, 2021ByPESSY KRAUSZ
An artistic representation of Daher el-Omar, by Ziad Daher Zedani

Galilee Gold: A noble novel inspired by a Bedouin sheikh

Many echoes in Pam’s beautifully crafted novel, arouse the reader’s interest.

APRIL 22, 2021ByPESSY KRAUSZ
An artistic representation of Daher el-Omar, by Ziad Daher Zedani

Erdogan: 'Jerusalem is our city, a city from us'

Erdogan referred to the Ottoman Empire's rule over Jerusalem, which lasted four centuries (1517-1917), to justify his claim.

OCTOBER 3, 2020ByTOBIAS SIEGAL
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Kinneret College to commemorate 102 years since the battle of Tzemach

The results of the battle had the potential to shift the power balance in the Middle Eastern theater during World War I.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020ByDANIEL NISINMAN
A monument marking the legacy of the Australian Cavalry in the Kinnert Campus

Turkey has no interest in peace in the Eastern Med

Turkey's misguided vision of Pan-Islamism brings with it a culturally dominant form of political Islam and militant Jihadism

AUGUST 31, 2020ByEDY COHEN
A man gestures as people wait for the beginning of Friday prayers outside Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, for the first time after it was once again declared a mosque after 86 years, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 24, 2020

Erdoğan believes he is restoring Turkey to greatness. Is he?

The Erdoğan vision is to recreate the period of Turkish and Ottoman greatness.

AUGUST 31, 2020ByMICAH HALPERN
DEMONSTRATORS PROTEST a visit of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Brussels, March 2020.

Turkey to inform UNESCO on Hagia Sophia after converting it back to mosque

The site was inscribed onto UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1985 under Historic Areas of Istanbul, along with other points of significance in the city.

JULY 13, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan originally proposed re-titling Hagia Sophia as a mosque instead of a museum in March, and last month proposed restoring mosque status to the 6th-century landmark.

Greek PM chides Turkey for genocide against Christians

The Prime Minister blasted Ankara for its current foreign policy that, he said, is ignoring international law on the high seas.

DECEMBER 8, 2019ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Bosnian Jews, Muslims recall lesson in tolerance as extremism rises globally

Bosnia's Jews and Muslims on Thursday marked the bicentenary of the rescue of a dozen Jews from an Ottoman-era governor's jail.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019ByREUTERS
Synagogue in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo