The crash of an American plane in the Afghan province of Ghazni has raised rumors, debates and doubts in Afghanistan over who actually controls the country’s airspace. BACKGROUND At midday on Monday January 27, Afghan media outlets began to report that a passenger plane had gone down in the Deh Yak district of Ghazni province (an area which has been ...
US President Donald Trump finally unveiled his “deal of the century,” a plan which he claims will help resolve the “eternal conflict” between Israel and Palestine by dividing them into two separate states. As the details of the deal will make apparent, the opinion of the Palestinians was not taken into account in the creation of the agreement. Trump’s plan ...
The marine component of geopolitics is becoming increasingly important for Turkey. This is evidenced by Ankara’s recent actions in the Mediterranean and especially the signing of an agreement on maritime borders with the Libyan Government of National Accord. It is also worth recalling the active hydrocarbon exploration activities off the coast of Cyprus. Turkey is an important player in the ...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has openly stated that Washington is working to remove Nicholas Maduro from power. “The purpose of the mission we have together is to make Maduro go away. I met with the president of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, who talked about the terrorist threat to the citizens of his country,” Pompeo said in an interview for ...
The Libyan oil and gas sector are the main arteries of the country’s economy and one of its only sources of income. However, military forces recently closed most of the major Libyan ports. It seems that Khalifa Haftar and his forces are trying to win concessions from the constitutional government and the international community by stopping Libyan oil exports. The ...
Brexit, the crisis of NATO and the mass protests movements kicking off across numerous European countries all demonstrate the increasing instability of the EU elites’ political structure. Recent political phenomenons across the European political scene are showcasing the appearance of new political subjects and actors. The yellow vest movement in France has shown that there are new players in European ...
Coronavirus President Xi Jinping called a meeting of the Communist Party, where he said that the spread of deadly coronavirus is accelerating. It has already spread outside China, with cases of the contagion having been confirmed in the United States and Europe. The discussion of the virus has caused a stir and been replicated throughout the media-sphere. The UN is ...
Turkey has, once again, had an intense week on the political front. The relationship between Enver Altayli, a former staff member of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT), the Gulenist Terror Organization (FETO) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) hit the headlines after new evidence was uncovered. The case is very important for Turkish domestic politics, not only because of Altayli’s ...
Some experts have been saying that the Istanbul Canal will open the Montreux Convention up to debate, despite the government’s assurance that the Istanbul Canal and the 1936 agreement regarding Turkey’s ownership of the Turkish Straits are independent of each other. Retired Admiral Mustafa Ozbey has evaluated the Istanbul Canal’s correlation to the Montreux convention, and offered his opinions about ...
Iran’s missile attack after the US assassination targeting Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, and Hashd Shaabi Commander al-Muhandis in Baghdad has opened a new era in the region. This attack should be seen as a unique military action since America has not been targeted by an independent state since the Second World War. The ...