Mass protests have been held in Iraq for more than a month. Al-Tahrir Square in central Baghdad has become the epicenter of revolutionary events. However, the experts are in no hurry to say what type of revolution it may be. The actions of the protesters strongly resemble the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004 (in Iraq, youth also celebrate weddings ...
Instability in Iran Following the November 15 hike in gasoline prices (from 11,000 to 20,000 Iranian rials per liter), a wave of street protests began in cities across Iran, in many places turning into riots. Rioters set fire to banks, shops, gas stations and clashed with police. There are reports that some of the belligerents opened fire on law enforcement ...
Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri’nin çeşitli kademelerinde, yurtiçi, yurtdışı ve Orta Doğu görevlerinde bulunan Dr. Öğretim Üyesi Süleyman Özmen uwidata.com için özel değerlendirmelerde bulundu. “Soğuk savaş sonrası dünya üzerinde bozulan güç dengesi ABD’nin lehine olacak şekilde değişti. ABD ve Batı yönetimleri Doğu’ya doğru hareket etmeye başladı. Bu hareket, küresel teröre karşı mücadele, demokratikleştirme, insan hakları ihlallerinin önlenmesi gibi sebepler öne sürülerek meşrulaştırılmaya ...
Two different viewpoints have been prominent in analyzing the weeks of mass protests in Iraq, Lebanon and Algeria: There are “external forces” behind these protests Citizens are legitimately reacting to economic crisis and government corruption. The government is simply using allegations of foreign interference to weaken the protests There is relevant information regarding both viewpoints that should be kept in ...
Kurds constitute 10% of Iran’s population, generally residing along its western borders. There is a perfect relationship between the Kurdish people and the Iranian government. However, there also exists a limited separatist movement among the Kurds, which makes the Kurdish question paradoxical. KURDISH GROUPS IN IRAN Eight major groups have managed to include Iranian Kurds in their organization, however, it ...
Most western experts (and western journalists) have negatively evaluated President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria. Over the past month, the president has been accused of chaotic policies (an accusation which is already customary) and acting to the detriment of the interests of the United States and to the benefit of Russia (an even more familiar accusation) and even ...
A change of tactics The protests in Hong Kong have long since spilled over from peaceful channels into violent clashes between participants and the police. This time the battlefield has moved to the universities. On five campuses in China, students turned their universities into insurgent fortresses. The ensuing conflicts resembled medieval battles interspersed with the madness of Mad Max aesthetics: ...
Gazeteci-Yazar Şaban Sevinç, Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan ile ABD Başkanı Trump arasında Beyaz Saray’da gerçekleşen zirveyi uwidata.com için değerlendirdi. “Zirve’nin Türkiye açısından pek de faydalı olmadığını, tam aksi gelişmelerin yaşandığını” belirten Sevinç, “Gönül isterdi ki, Fethullah Gülen’in iadesi konusunda bir adım veya ABD’ye göre General, bize göre terörist olan Suriye’deki YPG lideri Mazlum Kobani hakkında bir gelişme. Ya da Türk halkının vergileriyle ...
It will soon have been a month since thousands of people began to demonstrate in the Santiago de Chile Metro. The ostensible reason for the demonstrations was an increase in public transit ticket prices which has been successive since 2007, increasing 3 times in 2018 alone. The protests quickly grew out of control and became violent, leaving 22 dead and ...
Yellow vests The one year anniversary of the Yellow Vests protests took place this week in France. Over the course of a year, opponents of French President Emmanuel Macron’s liberal reforms have organized 53 “acts,” as the weekly protests have been designated. Dozens of people were arrested in connection with the latest demonstration. The protests began in 2018 with local ...