German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited China on November 4 and met with President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Kuchiang. “Reducing one-sided dependencies”, “regulating economic relations on the basis of reciprocity”, “free and fair trade” were among the topics that came to the fore during Scholz’s visit accompanied by a delegation of Germany’s leading companies. His government partners in the ...
Hosted by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the Ninth Summit of the Organization of Turkic States was held in Samarkand on November 11. During the Summit, The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) has been admitted to the Organization of Turkic States as an observer member increasing the number of participant states in the Organization to ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * In a surprising statement made during a press conference on Monday the 7th, the spokesman for the United States Department of State, Ned Price, said that the crisis in Ukraine “has to end through dialogue and diplomacy”. Price continued straighforward: “There will be no decisive victory on the battlefield.” Without wanting to draw conclusions a ...
The victory of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as ‘Lula’, in Brazil keeps on fueling hopes, disillusions, debates and questions in Latin America and worldwide. What does it mean for the country’s foreign and domestic politics? How will Lula govern, given he is facing a conservative majority in the parliament? How will Jair Bolsonaro, who already had contested ...
At a time when the Cyprus issue is heating up, Greece has turned into an American military base and Athens has become Washington’s weapon waiting to be triggered, we are publishing the 1955 Central Committee resolutions of the Communist Party of Greece on the situation in the country and the Cyprus issue. The Communist Party of Greece was founded in ...
On November 7, the Republic of Algeria has officially and formally applied for membership in the BRICS, the organization comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune already had participated in the BRICS summit in June. He was the first speaker on the summit held online, calling for “a new economic order where parity and ...
Second part of Şafak Erdem’s interview with Latif Bolat on the US Midterm elections and fundamental contradiction with the US. Do you think the US election will have an impact on the war in Ukraine? What kind of changes might occur? There are reports in the press that even Biden has sent intermediaries to Zelensky, telling him to seek a ...
Türkiye had an intense agenda last week. The 99th anniversary of the proclamation of the Turkish Republic, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, was celebrated with joy all over the country. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced a new political program under the name of the ‘Century of Türkiye’. The first domestically produced electric car from Türkiye, named TOGG ...
We continue our attempts to catch Latin American perceptions of the Ukraine crisis and the “global transition to a new order”. The quote actually belongs to Hugo Moldiz. A former Minister of Interior in the Evo Morales’ government, Moldiz is today a member of the Guevarist Movement, Army of National Liberation, an expert on international politics and author from Bolivia. ...
Interview by Şafak Erdem The United States is going to elections. A great part of the Senate and the entire House of Representatives will be elected. These so-called midterm elections also provide an indication of tendencies towards the presidential elections in 2024. Which topics dominated the electoral campaigns? How are the Americans viewing the presented arguments? What kind of reshuffling ...