Burç Eruygur is a North African Studies Research Assistant. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in International Studies and a Master's Degree in International Relations from Leiden University. He specifically focuses on Egypt, and he also has knowledge on the region of Russia and Eurasia stemming from his Bachelor's studies.
On June 14, on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Brussels, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and US President Joe Biden held their first bilateral meeting since the inauguration of the latter back in January. The meeting has been long-awaited considering the escalating tensions between the two NATO allies in recent months, which have been fueled by the issue of Turkey’s acquisition of Russian S-400s and, more recently, Biden’s
On 23 March, Israel underwent its fourth legislative snap election in the past two years, where none of the factions present achieved in obtaining a majority to acquire power. According to a final vote count released on Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing allies captured a total of 52 seats in the Knesset, and the opposing coalition led by Yesh Atid-Telem’s Yair Lapid managed to obtain 57 seats,
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On June 14, on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Brussels, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and US President Joe Biden held their first bilateral meeting since the inauguration of the
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On 23 March, Israel underwent its fourth legislative snap election in the past two years, where none of the factions present achieved in obtaining a majority to acquire power. According to a
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On 15 March, in a rare visit by Lebanon’s Shia political party and militant group Hezbollah, the group’s parliamentary leader Mohammed Raad traveled to the Russian capital Moscow to meet with Russian
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With the recent diplomatic tensions between the US and Saudi Arabia, many anticipated that serious repercussions would be imposed on the oil-rich country by Washington. Since the election of the new US
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On the weekend, Egyptian President Abdel Fettah El-Sisi and the Head of the Sudanese Transitional Council (STC) Abdel Fettah Al-Burhan called for the enhancement of trilateral, regional, and international efforts to reach
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In late-February, reports and images from several sources showed the transportation of mobile short-range AN/TWQ-1 Avenger air defense missile systems at a highway from Iraq to Syria. While this news did not
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On 23 February, Iran’s Envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Kazem Gharibabadi announced that it ended the implementation of the Additional Protocol set by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which envisions
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Within the context of his tour in the Caucasus region, Iranian Prime Minister Javad Zarif met with Turkish Prime Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on 29 January in Istanbul. The meeting came after Zarif
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