Expectations on the summit should be realistic. Much work needs to be done to progress the alliance in terms of organizational infrastructure. By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein The upcoming BRICS summit, to be held in Kazan, Russia in October, has aroused great interest in the public opinion, especially since it will take place just a few days before the presidential elections ...

Interview to Russian news agency RIA Novosti and TV Channel Tsargrad. The Turkish newspaper Aydınlık has reported that Kyiv held talks with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorists in Syria to recruit them for operations against Russia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Ukrainian intelligence emissaries were in the Idlib de-escalation zone on Syrian territory, where they were recruiting militants for ...

Heading of Turkish foreign policy in the context of increasing multipolarity. The Turkish political scientist Umur Tugay Yücel published recently a book titled “The decline of US power and rising new powers”. Herein, he discusses the new global balance of power. According to Yücel, the US power is in decline, being replaced by other nations. This opens a new era ...

Looking forward to expansion This year, the fourteenth BRICS summit will be held in the Russian city of Kazan on October 22-24. Russia is chairing the organization this year and has invested a lot of effort into increasing the potential of BRICS and making the platform a place for uniting countries seeking sovereignty. The main theme of the upcoming summit ...

Increasing tension, Kyiv’s possible motivation and the Kremlin’s choices of response. In September, Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow and the Moscow region intensified. On the night of September 1, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the “destruction and interception” of 158 drones, most of which were aimed at targets in the Kursk and Bryansk regions, but some UAVs hit Moscow. One ...

Currently, the struggle over the corridor is more between Iran and Russia than between Azerbaijan and Armenia. By Tehran Tapdigov, Baku / Azerbaijan The statement that ended the Second Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and Armenia contains several clauses. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and Russian leader Vladimir Putin signed a statement related to this on November ...

Interview to Turkish TV channel Ulusal Kanal UWI author political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan was guest to Turkish TV channel Ulusal Kanal. Güzaltan shared his views on the questions on Kursk and afterward. Translated into English by UWI. An operation of failure How do you evaluate the developments following the Ukrainian army’s attack on Kursk? The Chief of General Staff ...

Zelenskyy seeks to transfer terrorists with a past in the Chechen Wars, from Syria to Ukraine, sources report. The Kiev administration had previously collaborated with PKK/PYD to conduct covert operations against Russian forces in Syria. Now it became public that Kyiv has reached out to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the terrorist group occupying Idlib. Kyiv’s objective is to secure the ...

What are the options for the US and Netanyahu? By Adem Kılıç Political scientist As Israel’s offensive on Gaza, which has now entered the international literature as genocide, approaches its first year, the discovery of the bodies of six Israeli hostages last week has started a new phase in Israel. The streets of Tel Aviv, the capital, and many other ...

The US supported leadership of the organization is shaken by scandals of abuse and more. By Yusuf Tunçer Enver Can, founder of the World Uyghur Congress, talked about the death threat to him by the abusive chairman Dolkun Isa: ‘I think he made that threat in an organised way in consultation with some people in Munich with criminal records. According ...

Interview to Sputnik Türkiye. UWI author, historian and political scientist Mehmet Perinçek shared his views with Sputnik Türkiye on Türkiye’s application for membership in BRICS. The interview was translated into English by UWI. “Türkiye’s joining in the Eurasian front will drastically change the balance of power in the world” Mehmet Perinçek emphasized that Türkiye’s future should lie in the “geography ...

Tehran’s reasons to object to the corridor and the future of the tensions. By Mehmet Akif Akıncı Following a meeting between Iran’s former president, Ebrahim Raisi, and Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, on the banks of the Aras River, many believed that the tensions between Iran and Azerbaijan over the Zangezur Corridor had finally subsided. It was thought that ...