Erdogan in Kyiv: free trade deal, Bayraktar production agreement, offers to mediate Russia talks
Free-trade deal clinched Ankara and Kyiv signed a number of agreements during the meeting of the two presidents.…
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Daily review: first-ever visit of top EU diplomat to Donbas, Ukraine’s Eurovision song is #3 in contest’s history
Past 24 hours in the war zone Joint Forces Operation report no gunfire or shelling. Between 31 December…
Three-fourths of Ukrainians oppose Minsk accords in current form, poll shows
The accords were supposed to stop the fighting in eastern Ukraine, but several paragraphs of the documents turned…
Daily review: Turkey to maintain course of Bayraktar drone project, international flurry ahead of Putin-Biden call, 30 years of Ukrainian Army
Past 24 hours in the war zone JFO reports Russian-led militants launch 1 attack on Novoselivka, Donetsk Oblast.…
Ukraine reports first strike with Turkish Bayraktar drone
Ukraine's army has for the first time used the Turkish-produced strike drone Bayraktar TB2 against combined Russian-separatist forces…
Ukraine and Turkey in “final stage” of Free Trade Agreement negotiations – Turkish ambassador
On the Free Trade Agreement between Ukraine and Türkiye Mr Ambassador stated that Ukraine and Türkiye are now…
“A friend in need is a friend indeed” – Ambassador of Turkey to Ukraine
In the first part of an interview with KYIV NOT KIEV, His Excellency Ambassador of Türkiye to Ukraine,…
Baku’s success in using Turkish drones raises question: Could Ukraine use them against Russia in Crimea?
The Azerbaijani military’s use of Bayraktar TB2 medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UAV), purchased from Türkiye, played…
Turkey gives Ukraine an official copy of the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The document will be brought to Ukraine by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba. “We…
Ukraine’s geopolitical successes become Russian defeats
In the first half of October, the Ukrainian leadership concluded a series of important international agreements, with significance…
Kyiv and Moscow square off over legal arrangements for the Black Sea
Moscow’s continuing efforts to reduce the Black Sea to the status of a de facto Russian lake (see…
Moscow worried about Ankara’s plans for canal bypassing Bosporus Strait
In early March 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that Ankara would soon call for bids on…
‘Russia can be destroyed from within and Turkey has the confederates there to do it,’ Honchar says
Given Moscow’s attempt to use ethnic Russians in Ukraine against that country, some in Kyiv have suggested the…
Portnikov: The break in Putin’s pipe
According to the organizers of the commissioning ceremony of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline, the participation of Vladimir…
Ukraine has law but not force on its side in Sea of Azov, Polyakov says
Leonid Polyakov, a former Ukrainian defense minister now at the Center for Research on the Army, Conversion and…
What post-election Turkey expects from Ukraine and EU
The President is accorded greater executive powers and, as a consequence, assumes additional responsibilities. Unlike in the former system,…
Putin’s approach to Crimean Tatar leaders like Brezhnev’s toward Soviet refuseniks, Portnikov says
Vladimir Putin’s freeing and then expulsion abroad of Ilmi Umerov and Akhtem Chiygoz, two leaders of the Crimean…
Imprisoned Crimean Tatar leaders Chiygoz and Umerov released by Russia, flown to Turkey
Crimean Tatar leaders Akhtem Chiygoz and Ilmi Umerov, who were sentenced in occupied Crimea in politically motivated trials,…
Ukrainian pilot makes miraculous blind landing of damaged plane in Turkey
Ukrainian pilots who were steering an airplane of the Turkish company Atlasglobal were able to safely land an airplane…
One year after the coup: where do Turkey and the EU stand today?
2016 was a bad year globally and Türkiye had more than its fair share of misfortune, most tragically the…