After years of interruption of diplomatic relations and even more, armed conflict, the governments of Türkiye and Syria have started direct communication. Defense Ministers and heads of intelligence of both countries met in Moscow under Russian mediation – an act that constituted a major turn in West Asian politics. We spoke on this change of policy with retired Lieutenant General ...

Following Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, a debate lived up again on the role of force and violence in history – especially concerning the history of Russia itself. United Woeld International author has given a lengthy interview to Emrah Maraşo, editor-in-chief of Turkish monthly magazine Bilim ve Ütopya (Science and Utopia). The interview was published first in Turkish. UWI ...

Reporting from Brazil Lula da Silva decided to make his first official international visit, since he assumed the presidency of Brazil for the third time, to Argentina, thus affirming the strategic relationship between the two largest economies of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). The visit took place within the framework of the VII Summit of Heads of State and Government ...

The Azerbaijan site caliber.az featured expert opinions on the former US National Security Advisor John Bolton’s published article on Türkiye-NATO relations. We present the evaluations of United World International author Mehmet Perinçek and associate professor at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES) at Uppsala University (Sweden), Greg Simons, translated from Russian, to our readers. ——————————————— Last week, former ...

The history of international relations in Latin America is the history of the unresolved contradiction between the Monroist and Bolivarian thoughts. The first gave rise to the Pan-American idea based on the hegemony of the United States over the region, where the rest of the countries have a subordinate and submissive position. The Bolivarian thought originated as a need to ...

The German government has decided to send 14 Leopard tanks to Ukraine and permit the re-export of others from other countries. On January 25, the German parliament debated on the issue on demand of the oppositional fractions of the CDU/CSU. The parliament debated the issue as an extraordinary item on agenda upon demand from the oppositional CDU/CSU. The main opposition ...

The public agenda was quite intense in Türkiye last week. The meeting between the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and his American counterpart Antony Blinken was at the top of the public agenda. Another topic was the rising tensions with Sweden, which was about the protests against the President Erdoğan, and then with the disrespectful attack on the Muslim holy ...

By Michael Roberts * This week, the jamboree of the rich global elite of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has started again after the COVID interregnum. Top political and business leaders have flown in on their private jets to discuss climate change and global warming, as well as the impending global economic slump, the cost of living crisis and the Ukraine ...

By Gökhan Dağtekin It has long been a matter of dispute whether Germany would allow the delivery of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. The German government’s authorization is required for Ukraine to receive the Leopard 2 tanks that Germany has in its inventory or that Germany has previously exported to other European countries. Avoiding Russia-NATO war There was enormous pressure ...

The 53rd meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), also known as the Davos Summit, was held on January 16-20. With the slogan “Cooperation in a Fragmented World”, more than 2,700 people attended the Forum from 30 countries, including 50 heads of state or government, as well as representatives of international organizations and the business world. The forum mainly addressed ...

In Sweden, a person named Rasmus Paludan burned the Holy Quran in front of the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm under police surveillance. The Swedish government described the incident as a manifestation of freedom of expression. The goal: Clash of civilizations In many parts of the Middle East, especially in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has set houses, shops and churches belonging ...

By Orçun Göktürk * In August 2021, in the days when the American troops withdrew from Afghanistan desperately and the 20-year occupation ended with the victory of the Afghan people, Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s largest arms importing countries, was signing a military cooperation agreement with the Russian Federation in Moscow. The moment when Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Defense Minister ...