The cost of an incorrect strategy is heavy. Time is short. By Özgür Bursalı, Secretary General of the Vatan Party (Türkiye) At the AK Party Parliamentary Group Meeting held on January 21, 2026, our President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated: “What matters is not fragmentation into small statelets, but uniting and building strength together. Turks, Kurds, and Arabs, as in history, ...
The threat it responds to and the possible first steps ahead. As debates intensify over the future of the global system and NATO, middle powers are pursuing regional alliances. One example is the ongoing talks between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan regarding a potential new defense alliance. Details from our correspondent Yunus Soner in Istanbul. For Türkiye, the latest actions ...
The first formal review of the agreement is due on July 1, 2026. By Daniel Rosas, from Mexico City / Mexico Despite Donald Trump’s constant attacks and threats to cancel it, there is optimism that the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) will remain in place. This is due to the advantages it has brought to the three countries, which have become ...
Pride and Distance By Mehmet Enes Beşer China’s rise as a world power has unleashed a diaspora spirit of pride throughout ethnic Chinese groups around the world. It can be sensed in Malaysia, which possesses one of Southeast Asia’s largest and most politically powerful Chinese communities, to be precise. China’s economic rise, global economic power, and growing diplomatic assertiveness are ...
Posted by by Latif Bolat 6 Min Read January 28, 2026 These days, the streets of Minneapolis look like a scene straight out of a Clint Eastwood western shot in the deserts of Arizona. Strange-looking, masked ICE agents, who seem to take themselves to all-powerful town sheriffs, are stopping people in the streets, in their homes, and inside shops. Anyone ...
Main political events in Türkiye in the last week. Last week’s agenda in Türkiye was busy, as usual. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech assessing rising global tensions and Türkiye’s position in it. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan issued a pointed warning over developments in Iran. And the official minutes from a meeting between jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and ...
A formulation attempt When you look at the Mercator map head-on, Greenland appears to sit at the edge of the world, in a remote and marginal location. But take a look instead at Richard Edes Harrison’s maps “The Divided World” (published in 1941) and “One World One War” (published in 1942). According to Cornell University Library’s Digital Collections, published in ...
Steel, Circuits, and Strategy. By Mehmet Enes Beşer China’s rise as a world power has been most visibly articulated in terms of economic growth and technological development. But behind the waves of ports, highways, and 5G is a second power quietly remaking the contours of geopolitics: the military-industrial complex. No longer just an inland base of national defense, China’s state-connected ...
The Republic of Türkiye cannot participate in any structure where another head of state holds final authority. By Serdar Üsküplü, Vice Chairman of the Vatan Party (Türkiye) The entity announced by US President Donald Trump under the guise of a “Peace Council” is an attempt to legitimize American aggression by co-opting other states. It is a move designed to mask ...
Russia, the Ukraine War and the Trump Factor. By Yıldıran Acar, Political Scientist In recent years, the Arctic has become an increasingly visible subject in international politics. Climate change, emerging sea routes and the region’s natural resource potential have enhanced its strategic significance. As a result, the policies of Arctic coastal states have become more explicit and more contested. In ...
If the United States, under Trump, returns to fossil fuel nationalism, it is up to others—Europe, China, ASEAN, and the Global South—to continue the energy transition momentum. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Donald Trump’s unapologetic enthusiasm for fossil fuels is not just a rejection of climate science—it is an intent to remake world energy geopolitics in America’s image. Under the guise ...
A view from Pakistan. By Dure Akram, from Lahore / Pakistan Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed A Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement in September 2025 that treats aggression against one as aggression against both. Türkiye is now in advanced talks to join, with Pakistan’s defense production minister confirming a draft trilateral text is already “in the pipeline.” In light of these ...