Russia’s 37-month wider war on Ukraine drove Sweden to join NATO last year following a prolonged application period ...

Since the early 2000s, Turkey has relied on a foreign policy approach that emphasised cooperation instead of competition.

Hundreds have been arrested in Turkey during protests after the arrest of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main rival ...

Sweden provisionally aims to raise defence spending to 3.5% of GDP by 2030, a bigger and faster ramp-up than previously ...

In 2019 already, Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu ermerged as the most dangerous rival for Turkey’s president turned autocrat, ...

Sweden’s prime minister says his government wants to ramp up defense spending to a target of 3.5% of the Nordic ...

The country’s strongman, President Erdogan, is ruthlessly cracking down on dissent just as Turkey’s influence in the Middle ...

There are very few parts of society in Turkey where people can critique the ruling party without the chance they will be ...

Erdogan has consistently used Turkey’s NATO membership to undermine the alliance. Turkey held up Finland and Sweden’s bid to join NATO for nearly two years. Erdogan undermined Washington’s ...

The more robust military ambitions come just over a year after Sweden formally joined the NATO alliance, ending decades-long neutrality, largely out of concerns about an increasingly assertive Russia.