By Mehmet Enes Beşer On 18 October 2026, Indonesia will extend mandatory halal certification to imported food and drink, cosmetics, supplements, chemical products and several other categories. The deadline will turn BPJPH’s recognition of foreign certifiers from a specialist concern into a market-access question for exporters. At the same time, Malaysia’s Halal Industry Master Plan 2030 explicitly seeks global leadership, ...
At a meeting in Mexico, 260 delegates representing 101 political parties from around the world unanimously adopted a declaration opposing the Mecca Alliance. The declaration, initiated by Vatan Party representative at the meeting, Mehmet Perinçek, and jointly proposed by 11 parties, stated: “The Seminar calls on the Turkish Parliament not to become an instrument of American and Israeli plans, on ...
By Erkin Feyyaz Eşli The United States deployed F-35 fighter jets to India for the Tarang Shakti 2026 exercises, despite the aircraft also being slated for delivery to Türkiye. Notably, both India and Türkiye operate Russian-made S-400 air defense systems. This significant factor did not become an obstacle for the U.S. This case once again demonstrates Washington’s excessive bias towards ...
Vatan Party Chairman Dr Doğu Perinçek commented on the Makkah Agreement submitted to the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (GNAT) during his appearance on Ulusal Kanal’s Çıkış Yolu program. Analyzing the 16-article agreement signed between Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, Perinçek stated that the document had been written in invisible ink in accordance with the interests of Israel and the ...
Türkiye had another quite busy agenda last week. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan signaled that Türkiye could become involved in the ongoing war in Yemen under the framework of the Mecca Agreement. Another topic on the agenda was a FETÖ investigation on the producers and screenwriters of the popular television series Valley of the Wolves (Kurtlar Vadisi). Another investigation into alleged ...
Türkiye’s Africa policy has in recent years evolved into a multidimensional process that needs to be assessed not only in terms of the expansion of economic and diplomatic relations, but also within the framework of changing geopolitical priorities. One of the most noteworthy examples of this transformation is that Türkiye’s policies towards Somalia in East Africa and Libya in North ...
The future of the S-400 air defense systems Türkiye purchased from Russia in 2019 has once again come onto the agenda. Security sources from Türkiye say that the possibility of selling the systems to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates is being discussed, and that the issue was raised during the latest meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President ...
As always, Türkiye had a busy agenda last week. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit held in Bishkek. Following the detention of the opposition mayor of Üsküdar, a centrally located district of Istanbul, the municipality passed into the hands of the ruling party after a controversial election. Another important development of the week was the reopening ...
In recent days, two mutually reinforcing developments have taken place in Türkiye regarding the government’s new political orientation: the Mecca Agreement signed between Türkiye, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, and the Framework Law passed by Parliament. The Mecca Agreement: a step in line with the US’ new strategy There are several indications that the government has abandoned the carefully calibrated “policy ...
By Ali Alsaç It would be incomplete to view the marine national parks declared by Türkiye in the Eastern Mediterranean and the northern Aegean merely as an environmental measure. This decision is part of a much broader process reflecting the stage Türkiye has reached in recent years in terms of state capacity, its understanding of security, and its foreign-policy orientation. ...