The Turkish community in Austria’s capital city is placed into the spotlight ahead of the elections of April 27. By Kadim Ülker, From Vienna / Austria On April 27, 2025, local elections will be held in Vienna to determine the representatives who will form the state government. Turks are once again being placed at the heart of the political debate ...

And the Ottoman perspective to it. By Dr. Halim Gençoğlu The first modern concentration camps in history were shown by the British during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902) in South Africa. These camps marked a significant and controversial turning point in the history of warfare and civilian treatment. The British used concentration camps to control the Boer civilian population (mostly ...

On Trump’s trade tariffs, why US manufacturing has lost and how the world should react. By Yunus Soner, Antalya / Türkiye US President Donald Trump’s trade policies were one of the main topics at the 4th Antalya Diplomacy Forum, convened by the Turkish Foreign Ministry on April 11-13. Here, we interviewed Jeffrey Sachs, professor at the U.S. Columbia university, a ...

Neither recent nor just a trade war: The background of the US-China conflict. By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Many people may think that the conflict between the United States and China is recent and that characterizing it as a “trade war” helps explain its essence, but neither is true. Exalting this confrontation within the framework of these two particularities leads to ...

As Charles Dickens had written, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. By Onur Sinan Güzaltan The world keeps revolving, Swiftly, relentlessly. And it changes… A brief glance at the past month’s headlines reveals the weight of change and uncertainty. 1. Trump’s new tariffs President Trump declared a new wave of tariffs only on China, ...

Facing Israeli threats, Türkiye must reestablish the Astana Alliance. By Ihsan Sefa, Retired Air Staff Colonel, Turkish Armed Forces With its aggressive policies, Israel, led by the Netanyahu government, wants to drag the entire Middle East and the Muslim world into a massive war. Israel continues to occupy the territories of South Lebanon, Southern Syria and, of course, the Palestinian ...

Here are the assets that Tehran possesses. By Masoud Sadrmohammadi The initial round of negotiations between Iran and the United States in Muscat, the capital of Oman, has been described as positive by officials from both sides. Consequently, both parties are scheduled to continue these discussions in Muscat on the upcoming Saturday. Following the announcement of the constructive nature of ...

Rule of Law or Geopolitical Rorschach Test By Mehmet Enes Beşer The recent forced repatriation of 40 Chinese nationals from Thailand—more than a decade after entering a state of legal limbo—should have been viewed as a case of overdue humanitarian closure and successful international coordination. Instead, it became one more hot-button issue in increasingly binary geostrategic discourse. The West, and ...

The collapse of the globalist neoliberal system, the steady decline of its political representatives, their defeat in the European Parliament elections, and President Macron’s dissolution of the National Assembly have plunged the country into a deep crisis. By Ali Rıza Taşdelen Over the past five years, France has seen no major mass movements or widespread protests in response to social ...

BRI meets “Two Corridors”. By Mehmet Enes Beşer As China and Vietnam celebrate the 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties, their bilateral relationship is quietly but fundamentally transforming. What was previously dominated by ideological closeness and geographical neighborhood is evolving into a pragmatic and vision-driven relationship founded on mutual strategic interests. In the context of a shattered post-COVID international order, rising ...