Last week, the public agenda in Turkey has been busy with three main topics. The first topic were the 30th of August Victory Day celebrations throughout the country and celebration messages by leaders. The second was the announcement of the continuation of exploratory talks between the Egyptian delegation, headed by the deputy Foreign Minister, and their Turkish counterparts. The third ...
The Fener (Istanbul) Patriarch Bartholomew’s visit to Ukraine (20-24 August) has already caused reactions from the Russian Orthodox Church. As I wrote in my previous articles, tensions between Istanbul and Moscow Patriarchates turned into a serious conflict and resulted in the termination of relations between these two significant churches of the Orthodox world because of the situation in Ukraine. In ...
By Mishelle Muñoz – Mexico City With thanks to Diego Ilinich Matus Taking over the presidency of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador stated in the ceremony in front of the Congress on December 1st, 2018: “Friends, by mandate of the people today we begin the fourth political transformation of Mexico, it may seem pretentious or exaggerated, but today a new ...
By Mehmet Kıvanç The conference of country’s neighboring Iraq has convened in Baghdad on August 28. The conference, which has been in preparation for a long time, has coincided with the days of US defeat in Afghanistan. Countries neighboring Iraq as well as regionally influential states were invited, such as Turkey, France, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, United Arab ...
Exactly 37 years ago, one of my articles named “The Meaning of the Olympic Ideals, or an Aestheticized Meaninglessness” was published in the only youth magazine published in Turkey at the time, called Yeni Olgu (The New Phenomenon). In fact, it was rather a ‘fancy’ article written with all the excitement of my youth, and the introduction part also included ...
Ljubodrag Simonovic, Belgrade, Serbia Conspiracy theories did not originate from a political movement that fights to prevent the destruction of life on Earth and creates a humane world, but from a political movement that fights for capitalism. They are the product of new circumstances created in the contemporary world. It is, above all, about globalization and the emergence ...
The Orthodox Patriarch of Phanar (Istanbul) made a 4-day-visit to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, starting on August 21. The visit of the Patriarch, who in violation of the Lausanne Treaty claims to be Ecumenical, ended in disaster. Role in US plans In January 2019, Bartholomew had recognized the independence (“autocephaly”) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Russian Orthodox Church, to ...
By Cansu Yiğit The footage showing the Afghan immigrants entering Turkey from the Turkish-Iranian border in a disorganized way, the US’ statement that it will accept the Afghans that have served them as immigrants via third-party countries, including Turkey, and the statements coming from EU countries demanding that Afghan immigrants should be stopped in Turkey have brought the disturbance related ...
Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard evaluated the so-called Merida Initiative, which regulates the strategic cooperation between his country and the US, as “dead” in an interview given to the Washington Post on July 29. The statement is the latest link in a number of Mexican steps to curb US influence inside the country as well as Latin America. “The Merida ...
By Cansu Yigit The Taliban, ousted from the power after the American invasion, have seized the power back after 20 years, even before the American troops could complete their withdrawal from the region. At the moment this article is being written, the Taliban have entered the capital Kabul, the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has fled the country, and Western powers ...