The conflict between the UK and Iran around the oil tanker Grace 1 runs the risk of growing over into a war of tankers. CNN said on July 11 quoting a source at the U.S. Department of Defense that five Iranian naval vessels had approached the British Heritage tanker during the latter ship’s transition from the Persian Gulf to the ...
Avrupa Polis Teşkilatı(Europol), Terör Örgütü PKK’nın Almanya’daki Türk kurumlarına yönelik işlediği suç sayısında ciddi artış olduğundan şikayet ederken, diğer taraftan BM, terör örgütünü muhatap alıp “çocuk savaşçıları bırakması için” resmi törenle anlaşma imzalaması büyük tepki çekti. BM imza attığı skandala Türkiye sert tepki gösterdi: Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, YPG/PKK ile anlaşma imzalanmasına sert tepki gösterirken “BM’nin bir terör örgütünü bu ...
The former head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Turkey, retired general İlker Başbuğ recent made a number of powerful statements about his country’s purchase of Russian S-400 defense systems and American F-35 fighters (which Ankara still counts on receiving despite threat from the US to the contrary). Here are the most important excerpts from his speeches. ...
The scale of outflow of millionaires abroad increases significantly with each passing year. In 2018, 108,000 millionaires left their homeland as a whole in the world, while Turkey became the country that demonstrated the largest outflow of millionaires – over the past year 4,000 people left it. The AfrAsia Bank Global Wealth Migration Review 2019 says in 2018 10 percent of the total number of dollar millionaires ...
Milyonerlerin ülkelerinden kaçışı her yıl fark edilir bir şekilde artıyor. 2018’de dünya genelinde 108 bin dolar milyoneri ülkesini terk ederken, Türkiye 4 bin kişi ile en yoğun milyoner göçünün yaşandığı ülke oldu. AfrAsia Bank tarafından yayımlanan 2019 Küresel Servet Göçü Raporu’na göre, 2018’de Türkiye’de dolar milyonerlerinin yüzde 10’u ülkeyi terk etti. Son 4 yılda Türkiye’den göç eden milyonerlerin sayısı 17 ...
Genel Kurmay Başkanı Orgeneral İlker Başbuğ katıldığı bir televizyon programında Rusya’dan alınan S-400 hava savunma sistemleri ve ABD’den alınacak F 35 savaş uçakları konusunda dikkat çeken açıklamalarda bulundu. -“Bütün mesele F-35’in bilgilerinin S-400’lere yüklenmesi” “S-400’ler dünyanın en iyi savunma sistemi” Genelkurmay Başkanı Orgeneral İlker Başbuğ Habertürk TV’de Didem Arslan Yılmaz’ın programına katıldı. Yılmaz’ın sorularını yanıtlayan Orgeneral Başbuğ önemli açıklamalarda bulundu: ...
In a recent poll, the Gallup Institute revealed that US’ soft power has been on the wane since Donald Trump took office and continues to decline. In the poll, the United States is reported to have descended from the number one world power in 2016 to world’s third most powerful nation in 2017 and 2018, and may drop to fourth ...
The recent Washington’s designation of Iran’s elite, 125,000-member IRGC (Islamic Revolution Guard Corps) as an FTO (Foreign Terrorist Organization) was overlooked in the Western media as a typical story with the short attention span of the everyday news cycle. I am not an alarmist in my work, but it is now completely ostensible, perhaps more than ever before, that the ...
Relations between Libya, under the control of Khalifa Haftar (Tobruk’s government), and Turkey are at a critical point in the aftermath of an airstrike Haftar`s forces carried out against a refugee camp in Tripoli. Haftar has refused responsibility, calling the incident a false-flag conducted by his rival al-Sarraj. Harsh statements from both sides quickly followed, including threats of military action: ...
Georgian protests New protests took place this week in Georgia. On July 4, the Georgian Interior Ministry announced the detention of four people accused of assaulting police officers during rallies in central Tbilisi on June 20-21. On Thursday, the Prosecutor General’s Office announced that it was investigating a meeting about organizing mass riots and an attempted coup d’état to seize ...