Samir Amin, the brilliant Egyptian political thinker which we sadly lost in August 2018, made an important argument while describing the view of the legendary politician of the Arab world, Gamal Abdel Nasser, during one of our talks in Cairo, which I will here reiterate. He argued that it was at the Asian-African Bandung conference in the 1950s when the ...
German detention of a Turkish ship: a violation of international law and modern piracy On the morning of November 22, the German frigate Hamburg, in the course of EU-led Operation Irini, began an unannounced inspection of the Turkish Roseline-A ship that was carrying aid to Libya, 100 miles off the coast of Benghazi. They expressed suspicion of the Turkish ship’s ...
In an interview with United World International, Turkish political analyst and journalist Ramazan Bursa shed light on the assassination of Iran’s prominent nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and discussed the possible impact. Q: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, considered the “main architect” of Iran’s nuclear program, was assassinated in Tehran on Nov. 27. What was Fakhrizadeh’s strategic importance? Bursa: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was known as ...
The public agenda in Turkey this week included EU interference with a Turkish aid ship in the Eastern Mediterranean and the announcement of COVID-19 cases by the Health Ministry. THE UNLAWFUL INTERVENTION AND SEARCH ON THE TURKISH AID SHIP BY GERMANY AND GREECE On November 22, German commandos under the tactical command of a Greek Commodore, part of the EU-led ...
What are the fundamental differences between Joe Biden’s planned policies and those of Donald Trump; how will this affect the current geopolitical order? Over the last 30 years, American democrats have traditionally pursued a policy of liberal interventionism – interference in the affairs of other states under the pretext of human rights and the protection of democracy. While in the ...