Aidan Aslin is a British national who fought as a mercenary at the side of the YPG/PKK in the north of Syria in 2015 and 2016. Upon his return to the United Kingdom, he was detained, but released afterwards and went back to Syria. He expressed himself in support for a so-called Kurdish autonomous region in Syria and called Western ...
The public agenda of Türkiye has been busy with three main topics last week. First was the telephone conversation between the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Second was the summit held in Istanbul between military delegations of Russia, Türkiye and Ukraine and UN representatives, on a possible grain corridor. Third was the trilateral meeting ...
By Lee Jaesung * On July 8, two gunshots resounded in the streets, shocking the world. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at the age of 67, was shot dead during a campaign for support. There are still many unresolved doubts around him, but one thing that everyone can agree on is that an important giant of Japanese diplomacy of ...
Reporting from Cairo, Egypt It can be said that the most important stop for US President Joe Biden’s tour to the Middle East is his visit to Saudi Arabia, during which he met Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, his Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and a number of Arab leaders. The visit coincides with increasing pressures on the Democratic Party ...
Many distinguished intellectuals, activists, working people, trade unionists and politicians from all five continents have just pointed out, by signing an appeal to world public opinion, the enormous nuclear, ecological, social and economic dangers for all humanity provoked by the conflict in Ukraine and the unleashed Cold War. The appeal, drafted by the Initiative for the revival of the Bandung ...
By Dr. Basem Naim Head of Department of Politics and Foreign Relations – Gaza, the Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas US President Joe Biden is visiting the region, beginning with a visit to occupied Palestine, where he will meet with the Zionist leadership, and then conclude with a courtesy meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem. He will then ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * First the pandemic first and later the war in Ukraine have caused the world to enter into an accelerated dynamic of transformation and reconstruction. The avalanche of events, happenings and conflicts in which positions of different actors are taking place, aims to verify that we are in a moment of extreme mutation of the international ...
By Ata Atun Prof. Dr. (Civ. Eng), Assoc. Prof. Dr. (Int. Rel.), Dean of Cyprus Science University, Politicial Advisor to the President of the State of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus U.S. President Joe Biden remarked while attending the NATO Leaders’ Summit in Madrid, “We need to update the F-16 aircraft while also selling them to Türkiye. Not doing this ...
By Orçun Göktürk The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which was presented by Chinese President Xi Jinping during his trip to Kazakhstan in 2013, was the first target of Brahma Challaney’s “Debt Trap Diplomacy” black propaganda in 2017[1]. Since then, Western countries have adhered to the phrase and begun focusing on the leading BRI in the newly reorganised international system. ...
By Michael Roberts * Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida comfortably won last October’s general election for the lower house of the Diet for the ruling Liberal Democrats (albeit with a slightly reduced majority). And he is headed for victory in this Sunday’s upper house election, likely to extend the number of seats it holds to 60 out of 125 contested. So ...