By Cansu Yiğit “Over many, many years, we’ve served together in Afghanistan. We’ve been able to contain, to a certain degree, terrorist dangers, but unfortunately we have not been able to build a nation as we would like it to look” said the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, admitting the defeat in Afghanistan during a meeting with the US President Joe ...

Kyiv – Ukraine The Ukrainian government has been attempting to improve relations with China, with whom it had some serious problems only a few months ago. The two governments have signed a cooperation agreement on construction works and this agreement also opens the way for Ukraine to get credit from China. People close to the Ukrainian Government have even praised ...

The United States is continuing its pressure on Cuba and the socialist republic resists. Following the protests of July 11, which partly were supported and organized by the United States, president Biden declared Cuba a “failed state repressing its citizens” on July 15. Biden stated, “communism is a failed system — a universally failed system. And I don’t see socialism ...

By Tunç Akkoç The US and Germany have come to an agreement on the Nord Stream project, which had caused tensions and evolved to an issue of biggest bilateral crisis between the two countries during a long time. Representatives of both governments have announced to have achieved an agreement. Some details of the agreement are becoming already public. US sanctions ...

Abstract of a report by UWI expert Dimitris Konstantakopoulos to an international conference on NAM, organized by the Paris I Sorbonne and Havres Universities, on 20-22.2.2021 War, expansion and imperialism have been some of the main paths used by the western capitalist system, in order to overcome its crises and impasses, as proved by colonialism and WWI and II. For ...

On July 8, 2021, the Pro Tempore Presidency (PPT) of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) was transferred in an online summit. Now, the leadership moved from Argentina to Brazil for the next six months. This presidential summit of one of the most important regional integration blocs in South America once again divided the waters between Argentina and the rest of ...

Last week, the public agenda in Turkey has been busy with three main topics. The first topic was the telephone call between the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Chinese President Xi Jinping, late at night last Tuesday. The second was the 2-day visit of the Turkish President Erdogan to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the announcements ...

The snap parliamentary elections in Moldova, which were held in 11 July, resulted in the victory of pro-Western forces. The Action and Solidarity Party, founded by the President of Moldova Maia Sandu, got 52.8% of the votes. Such a great success even exceeded the expectations of the members of that party. As a consequence of the process, which has been ...

„Cezary did not know who he actually was and where was his place in these disputes. He could not stand on the side of the Armenians, neither the Tatars, nor the Turks, nor the English, nor the Russians who ruled here and later overthrew their power, bringing the slogans of the Revolution. The Revolution, however, failed and was out of ...

The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), which holds a strategic importance in the Eastern Mediterranean, has been facing harsh political, economic and military embargoes since 1974. The TRNC, which the European Union has been wishing to include within its borders through the Greek Administration of Southern Cyprus, with various projects similar to the Annan Plan of 2004, has so ...