As Bob Dylan once sang, the times they are a-changin’, only now, this sentiment likely seems quite obvious to everyone. Our sources for knowledge, information and views are increasingly being defined online on platforms like YouTube, giving the traditional centers of knowledge a run for their money. As a Turkish musician born in the 1970s, most of my life I ...

On March 26, 1979, a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel was signed between President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem began in the presence of US President Jimmy Carter. In contrast to the faint creaking of the pens with which the treaty was signed, the sound of anger in the Arab world resembled cannon fire. These pens opened ...

Turkey’s former Ambassador to Washington Faruk Logoglu and Retired Brigadier General, Assoc. Dr. Fahri Erenel have commented on possible US-Turkey relations and foreign policy under President Biden. Despite continued push back from current US President Donald Trump, procedures are beginning for the transition to Joe Biden’s presidency next year. President elect Biden said, “The election is over, it is time ...

US elections In early November, presidential elections were held in the US, in which Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden faced off. The election results remain controversial – many people tend to question the fairness of the election given the opaque counting system and President Trump’s claims that the elections had serious irregularities. Only some states have certified Biden’s ...

The turmoil in the American elections is an unquestionable and concrete reflection of the collapse of the United States of America. The internal turmoil will continue regardless of who becomes the President of the United States. These shocking internal upheavals will conclude when the US ceases to impose its hegemony on the world. LET BYGONES BE BYGONES We need to ...

Samir Amin, the brilliant Egyptian political thinker which we sadly lost in August 2018, made an important argument while describing the view of the legendary politician of the Arab world, Gamal Abdel Nasser, during one of our talks in Cairo, which I will here reiterate. He argued that it was at the Asian-African Bandung conference in the 1950s when the ...

German detention of a Turkish ship: a violation of international law and modern piracy On the morning of November 22, the German frigate Hamburg, in the course of EU-led Operation Irini, began an unannounced inspection of the Turkish Roseline-A ship that was carrying aid to Libya, 100 miles off the coast of Benghazi. They expressed suspicion of the Turkish ship’s ...

In an interview with United World International, Turkish political analyst and journalist Ramazan Bursa shed light on the assassination of Iran’s prominent nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and discussed the possible impact. Q: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, considered the “main architect” of Iran’s nuclear program, was assassinated in Tehran on Nov. 27. What was Fakhrizadeh’s strategic importance? Bursa: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was known as ...

The public agenda in Turkey this week included EU interference with a Turkish aid ship in the Eastern Mediterranean and the announcement of COVID-19 cases by the Health Ministry. THE UNLAWFUL INTERVENTION AND SEARCH ON THE TURKISH AID SHIP BY GERMANY AND GREECE On November 22, German commandos under the tactical command of a Greek Commodore, part of the EU-led ...

What are the fundamental differences between Joe Biden’s planned policies and those of Donald Trump; how will this affect the current geopolitical order? Over the last 30 years, American democrats have traditionally pursued a policy of liberal interventionism – interference in the affairs of other states under the pretext of human rights and the protection of democracy. While in the ...

The Second World War was finally coming to an end. The US President Truman has told the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin through a Russian translator, that they have developed and successfully tested “a new weapon of unusual destructive force”, during the conference at the Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany, on July 24th 1945. Exactly 13 days after that conference was ...

2020 has been an extremely difficult year for Iran. The Islamic Republic only recently lost a top ranking name of the military wing, the second most powerful name of the country, in a terrorist act organized by the US early in the year… Now the country is now shocked by the news of the assassination Muhsin Fahrizade Mahabadi, who is ...