Turkey: Return of the “Blue Homeland” exercise after 3 years
The exercise is used by Turkey as a tool of military diplomacy to question the rights of neighboring countries, mainly Greece & Cyprus, as they derive from the international law
Syria: Large-scale operation in the Alawite districts of Homs city
The targets of the operation are "war criminals and persons involved in crimes, who refused to surrender their weapons"
Turkey: Inflation misses the Central Bank’s target for the end of 2024
Annual consumer price growth slowed to 45.2% in December from 47.1% in the previous month