Turkey sparked outrage after its embassy in Tel Aviv lowered its flag to half-mast in honor of Hamas terrorist Ismail Haniyeh who was killed in Iran earlier this week amid Israel's war in Gaza.

Attempting to provide an historical context, I explain how all of these flags share the red, white and blue colours with the pan-slavic flag created at the Congress of 1848, which was itself ...

Getty Images, Sept. 9, 2022, Flags at half-mast at British Consulate General Associated Press, Sept. 9, 2022, The British flag was lowered at half-mast in Istanbul, Turkey - 09 Sept 2022 ...

Messrs. Oktay and Cavusoglu were planting Turkey’s flag far and wide in a global effort to expand support for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s style of religiously-packaged authoritarian rule ...