On November 4, participants in the fifth round of inter-Libyan dialogue in the framework of the Joint Military Committee “5+5” in Ghadames agreed on a number of steps to normalize the situation in this country, including the withdrawal of mercenaries, the return of party formations to their bases and the deployment of international observers in the strategically important areas of ...
The Azerbaijani army continues to advance, launching a counterattack on September 27, responding to the Armenian army’s attack on civilian settlements. The Armenian army, which has lost much of its position, nonetheless has continued attacks on the civilian settlements of Azerbaijan with mortars and missiles. We talked about the latest developments in the conflict and the Armenian attacks with Ambassador ...
Europe: attacks on Islam and terrorsim In the evening of October 16, a terrorist attack took place in France near the college building in a suburb of Paris. 18-year-old Chechen refugee Abdoullakh Anzorov beheaded a teacher of history and geography, Samuel Paty. The murder was motivated by the fact that the teacher decided to show his students – mostly Muslims ...
The Azerbaijani army continues to advance, launching a counterattack on September 27, responding to the Armenian army’s attack on civilian settlements. The Armenian army, which has lost much of its position, nonetheless has continued attacks on the civilian settlements of Azerbaijan with mortars and missiles. We talked about the latest developments in the conflict and the Armenian attacks with Ambassador ...
The tension that escalated in the wake of the seismic/drilling activities conducted by Turkey within its legal maritime jurisdiction in Eastern Mediterranean was a part of broader problems resulting from Greece’s efforts to increase its territorial waters. While a possible Turkish-Greek war became an alarming possibility as a result of mutual NAVTEXes, multinational exercises, and fortifications on the islands and ...
The historical changes declared by President Erdogan during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly is also indicative of the changing attitudes of Asian countries towards Turkey. Those who worship Washington and Brussels will not be able to prevent Turkey from connecting with its real friends by trying to argue that Turkey has become isolated. Turkey’s international political value ...
The military conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh came to an end via a fragile ceasefire after about two weeks. This war, however, was much more confined in terms of scale and time of conflict in comparison to other conflicts in the Middle East; it was all the same significant due to the deep effects it has had on regional and international balance. ...
Although the West defines Turkey’s reconnection to the open seas ‘Neo-Ottomanism’, Turkey’s Blue Homeland Doctrine is a 21st century geopolitical reality originally outlined by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as a survival necessity for the democratic, secular republic whose borders are drawn in accordance with the universal law of the sea and reinforced by state practices. “The seas are an inexhaustible supply ...
By Nardine Ali (Egypt) UAE-Israel peace deal ends honeymoon between Cairo and Abu Dhabi After years of cold relations between the Gulf states and Israel, a peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at the White House on September 15th, 2020, brokered by President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, has revived the dream of ...
October has regularly been a month of important events in Turkish history. This month reminds us of such events as the Armistice of Mudanya (October 11th 1922) and the Proclamation of the Turkish Republic (October 29th 1923), filling us with pride– but it is also a month of grief and misfortune as well. There are many examples of these events. ...
Cheng Enfu, an adviser to Chinese President Xi Jinping on economic issues, stated that Turkey’s participation in the Belt and Road Initiative would contribute to finding a peaceful solution to the problems in Eastern Mediterranean. In an article co-authored with Li Jing and published in Belt and Road Initiative Quarterly (BRIQ) Autumn 2020 issue, Prof. Cheng Enfu emphasizes that “the ...
In the previous week, the Turkish public was struck by the allegations of using Syrian jihadists and Turkish F-16 fighters, in the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Turkey has been historically and culturally tied with Azerbaijan with the simple definition of “one nation, two countries. Turkey also did not hesitate to show its support for Azerbaijan in the ongoing ...