The domestic political situation in Mali is only getting worse: the country is split, political elites oriented towards France are no longer satisfied with the population, leaders of different groups offer varying alternatives. For those unfamiliar, UWI covered the general situation in an earlier article. The Great Anti-French Revolution in Mali: Françafrique Fails Against this background, it is interesting that ...
THOSE THAT LIVE IN A FANTASY WORLD What did the President of TRNC Akinci say after 46 years, during his speech on June 25, 2020? “The Greek Cypriots are our brothers.” Yes, it seems we have not learned from our history and repeatedly make the same mistakes. After the disaster referendum for the 2004 Annan Plan, this ghost appeared again ...
Günümüz dünyasında, sinema sanatıyla belirgin ilişkisinden, belirgin sinema geçmişinden, tanınmış sinema sanatçılarından ve ulusal sinemasından söz edilemeyecek az sayıdaki devletten biri de Libya. Bir Kuzey Afrika ve Akdeniz ülkesi olarak, çölleri ve gizemli şehirleri dolayısıyla zaman zaman Batı dünyasından sinemacıların ilgisini çekmiş ve pek çok filmde mekan olarak kullanılmışsa da 2011’den bu yana yaşanan derin kaos ve iç savaş nedeniyle ...
The UK government recently announced that US backed opposition candidate Juan Guaido would be given exclusive access Venezuelan gold. This news alerted the international press and, above all, to the government of Nicolás Maduro, who has been attempting to repatriate some 30 tons of Venezuelan gold. Venezuelan reserves are now at risk because of the difficult international context arising from ...
The 97th anniversary of the treaty of Lausanne was celebrated throughout Turkey last week, the document being seen as the political title deed of the Republic of Turkey, founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The Lausanne Peace Treaty, which guaranteed the recognition of the Republic of Turkey as an independent and a sovereign state after the War of Independence, was signed ...
Algeria is already involved The threat of a new large-scale conflict in Libya, primarily Egyptian intervention and a direct or indirect clash between Turkey and Egypt in the Battle of Sirte, naturally resulted in a lot of anxiety among Libya’s neighbors. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune made a number of rather sharp statements, saying in an interview with local media that ...
The dispute between the two countries, which began in 2013 when Mohammad Morsi was overthrown and General Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi had come to power, has deepened even more with the polarization in the Eastern Mediterranean, and now has come to a point of possible conflict over Libya. After the Egyptian Parliament gave President al-Sisi the right “to take the necessary ...
The European Union has been unable to take a position or provide a stable strategy for Libya until now. Recently, Paris kept its role in Operation Sea Guardian quiet but accused Turkey of violating an arms embargo against Libya. France claimed Turkish ships targeted a French warship in the Mediterranean, although a subsequent NATO investigation did not support the allegations ...
Bernard-Henry Levy’s provocative trip to Libya Bernard-Henri Levy, the political philosopher who actively participated in the destruction of Libya in 2011, arrived in Misrata this week. The official purpose of the visit was reporting about mass graves in Tarkhuna left by Haftar’s forces, a story which is supposed to be published in the Wall Street Journal. #Tarhuna. Just after my ...
The Armenian deportation of 1915 is one of the most politicized historical questions in the field and public sphere. Unfortunately, the historians who support the hypothesis of some Armenians that see the event as an effort at ‘genocide’ are not keen to consult archival sources regarding the issue, but rather repeat the same allegations from a political perspective. This is ...