As the American edition of Axios reports this week, the head of the State Department Michael Pompeo, adviser to the president on national security Robert O’Brien, the senior adviser and the son-in-law of the head of the American state Jared Kushner and Ambassador of the USA in Israel David Friedman are supposed to meet with Donald Trump to discuss Israel’s ...

There is a monster that has been with us from the very beginning, in all cultures, even before language. It’s a very helpful monster. You can attach almost anything to it. Love, sex, power, religion, politics, economics, manufacturing, trade, fashion, education, indoctrination… whatever you like, whatever you need. This monster is capable of serving all. Yet, it has a secret ...

Today, after 108 years, Turkey is back in Libya. Despite the COVID 19 outbreak, Turkish warships have been flying their flags along Libya’s coast uninterrupted for the past four months. Since Turkey signed an MoU with Libya on November 27, 2019 to delimit the southwest portion of its Blue Homeland maritime border, the roughly 1000-mile zone between Marmaris/ Aksaz naval ...

After the Turkish-French incident off the Libyan coast, French President Emmanuelle Macron called the event further proof of “brain death” of NATO. He claims that Turkey’s line is incompatible with its status as a NATO country, accusing Ankara of a “dangerous game” in the region. “I believe today that Turkey is playing a dangerous game in Libya and is contravening ...

Libya represents a vital field for Egypt, especially as the two countries have about 1200 kilometers of common land borders. Thus, the continuing war between the Libyan National Army forces, led by Khalifa Haftar, and the forces of the Government of National Accord led by Fayez Al-Saraj, is a weakness point for Egyptian border security. The problem is compounded by ...

The COVID-19 outbreak has helped the world realize how much the “American Dream”  has proven to be a nightmare. The people who have been exposed to US aggression for 75 years have experienced the pain of being deceived by this dream. Now the American people themselves are waking up from this nightmare. Today, even its ideologists admit that Neoliberalism is ...

Diplomacy requires seeing an issue from the opposing side’s perspective and coming up with a reasonable offer well defending one’s own demands. Otherwise, the steps taken to ensure diplomacy is effective would not give the desired expectations, and the discourse would in effect remain a monologue. Diplomacy is the art of leaving a gap open for the other side to ...

The political agenda in Turkey last week included the march of the Bar Associations organized by lawyers,air strikes and field operations against the PKK by the Turkish Armed Forces, and new events in Libya. ELECTION PROTESTS OF THE JUDICIAL BAR ASSOCIATION The most striking topic of last week was a march from Istanbul to Ankara which was organized to protest ...

China-EU-USA: an attempt to reach an agreement Over the past week, Chinese and European diplomats have agreed on a joint video conference to cool tensions. After a string of accusations and scandals about the Coronavirus, this will be the first attempt at constructive negotiations. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and Charles Michel, President of the European ...

The European Union is again in conflict with Hungary. This time, the European Court of Justice opposed a Hungarian requirement that groups receiving foreign funding identify themselves as such and disclose information about their donors. The Court found that Hungary’s restrictions on funding of civil society organizations were illegal, and called the policy of disclosure of sponsors “discriminatory and unjustified”. ...