US elections The US held its 2020 presidential election, in which Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden fought for the country’s leadership. Preliminarily, Biden appears to have won, receiving between 279 to 290 votes from electors (winning requires a minimum of 270 votes). Trump, however, has not admitted defeat, noting that the election was not yet over. Biden’s headquarters, ...
The public political agenda in Turkey was exceptionally busy this week once again. The presidential election in the United States seems to have resulted in a win for Democratic Candidate Joe Biden. Many leaders of the world, and many political leaders from the opposition in Turkey, have already congratulated Biden on his victory, although government officials are waiting for the ...
The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) started in Tunis on November 9. The main organizer is the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), led by the former US Charge d’Affaires in Libya Stephanie Williams. The task of the forum, according to the UN mission in Libya, is “to generate a unified governance framework and arrangements that will lead to holding ...
This week, the IMF presented its World Economic Outlook Report of 2020, which provides an overview of the world economy. The reports coming out of this conference are interesting, and contain information that America does not want to hear nor accept, such as the fact that China has dethroned the US and become the world’s largest economy, a fact that ...
Footage from France is being shown across Turkish TV screens, showing a group of young people raiding the police station in Champigny-sur-Marne, a city near Paris, while blowing up fireworks. The attack lasts for minutes, after which the group of young people disappears into the darkness of the city. Those who know France well, should know that there are dozens ...
On the night of November 10, Presidents of Azerbaijan and Russia Ilham Aliyev and Vladimir Putin along with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a joint statement on the complete cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh. According to the document signed, military operations in Nagorno-Karabakh will cease. The parties remain in their positions, but Armenia will cede to Azerbaijan all previously ...
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 ...