The Turkish and Russian presidents are going to held a meeting in the city of Sochi on August 5. This will be their second meeting in a short time, after having gathered in the Astana Summit in Tehran recently. Following that summit, Türkiye’s president Erdoğan had stated that Russian president Putin “had a number of interesting proposals”. Both countries are ...

“Relations with Israel should never exceed the official level and every move made by Israel should be reciprocated. Türkiye should leave the balance policy because this policy brings us to a deadlock. (…) Türkiye must immediately withdraw from NATO’s military wing, if not its political one.” Israel and Russia are at odds over missile strikes in the Syrian theater. Russia, ...

By Vitaly Naumkin Scientific Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of Oriental Sciences The main purpose of US President Joe Biden’s first visit to West Asia was his final destination, Saudi Arabia. After completing two visits, to Israel and the West Bank, he arrived in Saudi Arabia. Although the visit was a step towards a return to ...

1. Hunger as part of the rules-based international order From the US Secretary of State to the German Foreign Minister, from the British magazine of Economist to the even the Pope, all Western leaders have turned into spokespeople of the world’s hungry. No day goes by without one or several of them warning of global famine. When Western politicians decry ...

By Michael Roberts * The major economies are moving closer to recession, if they are not already there; and yet inflation rates continue to rise (for now).  The latest surveys of business activity, called Purchasing Managers Indexes (PMIs), show that both the Euro area and the US are now in contraction territory (i.e. any level below 50).  The composite PMIs ...

The Communist Party of China (CPC) has organized the World Symposium for Marxist Political Parties on July 28, 2022. The forum was hosted by the International Department of the CPC Central Committee. More than 300 representatives from over 100 Marxist political parties, left-wing political parties and political organizations in 70-plus countries attended online. Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary ...

The public agenda in Türkiye has been busy with three main topics last week. The Turkish-Russian-Ukrainian joint grain corridor plan, which was agreed upon for the Black Sea on the initiatives from Türkiye, was the top subject on the agenda. Secondly the terror attacks on Turkish diplomatic missions in Iraq have caused an outrage among the Turkish public. And another ...

By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein * If we were to use modern terms, we would have to say that this July 26 and 27 have been commemorated as what could be considered the most important Summit meeting in the history of Latin America: the one that gathered General José de San Martín, the Liberator of the South and our Liberator and ...

Adnan Akfirat is Representative to China and Member of International Relations Bureau of the Vatan Party of Turkey. He is also the Chairman of Turkish-Chinese Business Development and Friendship Association (Turk-Cin Is Der) and visiting researcher of Shanghai University Turkish Studies Center and Shihezi University Silk Road Research Center. Akfirat has been living in Shanghai since 2011. Born in 1957 ...

Mexico’s energy reforms keep on fueling tensions with the country’s northern neighbor, the United States. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador presented the latest public episode in his daily press conference on July 28, when he questioned the free trade agreement between Mexico, United States and Canada, the USMCA. USMCA was signed in 2018 as a follow-up on the infamous ...

Dr. Mehmet Perinçek, Faculty Member of Moscow State University, made an assessment to Sputnik on the European Police Agency Europol’s announcement that it had detected arms smuggling cases from Ukraine to European countries, posing the risk of weapons falling into the hands of criminal and terrorist groups. Reminding that Ukranian border and customs officials were already worldwide infamous for bribery ...

Since Russia’s military operation in Ukraine launched on February 24, militarization in Europe has accelerated. Two countries are leading the way: Germany and France. French President Emmanuel Macron’s declaration on June 13 that France and Europe have entered a state of “war economy” can be seen as the naming of this process. Macron’s plan of a ‘self-sufficient’ and ‘powerful’ military ...