Author: Altan Eren

 At about 1am on February 24 last year, Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, received a troubling phone call. After spending months building up a more than 100,000-strong invasion force on the border with Ukraine, Vladimir Putin had given the go-ahead to invade. The decision caught Lavrov completely by surprise. Just days earlier, the Russian president had polled his security council for their opinions on recognising two separatist statelets in the Donbas, an industrial border region in Ukraine, at an excruciatingly awkward televised session — but had left them none the wiser about his true intentions. Keeping Lavrov in the…

The American Business Forum in Türkiye, AmCham Türkiye/ABFT, has awarded the Turkish and U.S. companies that have contributed to the development of Türkiye-U.S. bilateral trade with their business activity. AmCham Türkiye, which represents 120 U.S. companies with annual investments of more than $60 billion in the Turkish economy, has created employment for 100,000 people since 2004 within the framework of its members’ commercial activities, said forum chair Tankut Turnaoğlu at “I AmChamPion” awards ceremony held in Istanbul on Dec. 12. Attending the event with a video message, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay pointed out that the relations between the U.S. and Türkiye have improved in every field.…