Greece is trying to expand its territorial waters to a 12 nautical mile radius based on the United Nations Convention on The Law of the Sea. However, neither the Convention nor the International Court of Justice nor the Arbitral Tribunal suggests doing so. Yesterday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that Greece would increase their territorial waters up to 12 ...
BY ALİ RIZA TAŞDELEN Our world is experiencing the pain of the transition from a unipolar world to a multipolar world. The confrontation between the Atlantic and Eurasian forces has been heating up in the Eastern Mediterranean for the past year. It is not possible to consider the terrible explosion that took place in Beirut without taking into account the ...
Europe The aggravation of Turkish-Greek relations In August, Greece did everything possible to designate Turkey as an enemy in public discourse. On August 22, the Greek media reported that Greece had contacted the UN in connection with Turkey’s actions in the Mediterranean Sea, considering them a threat to the security of the entire region. On August 6, Greek Foreign Minister ...
August 10 was the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Sevres- it was also the day RV MTA Oruc Reis commenced its mission of seismic exploration in Turkey’s Eastern Mediterranean continental shelf, which had been postponed. As the RV MTA Oruc Reis departed from Antalya, while Greece, the EU and the United States began to launch counter-measures on every imaginable ...
Over the last week, Turkey celebrated Victory Day on the 30th. Escalating tensions with Greece on the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean Seas were another agenda of the Turkish public last week. What is Victory Day? August 30 is celebrated in Turkey as “Victory Day”, commemorating the end of the Turkish War of Independence. After the Ottoman defeat in World ...
Bashaga Fathi Bashaga, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Government of National Reconciliation of Libya, was dismissed while in Turkey. The decision was not made by chance: the conflict between Bashaga and the head of the PNC Faiez al Sarraj has been going on for a long time. The moment it happened, however, was unexpected. In addition ...
After the first S-400s that Turkey purchased from Russia, some said that installing them had been abandoned, and that the systems themselves were essentially junk. While the US administration, which warned Ankara against purchasing the S-400s, continues to threats of sanctions, on the other hand, Aleksandr Mikheev, CEO of Rosoboronexport (the state intermediary agency for Russia’s exports/imports of defense-related and ...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt should move towards a “mutual agreement” on the construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD). His words came on Tuesday, August 25 during his visit to the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed also arrived in Khartoum at this time. The State Department said that ...
Today is the 98th anniversary of the Victory Day of the Turkish War of Independence against the imperialist occupation on August 30. This victory is naturally the result of the Turkish nation’s own determination and resolution. However, it is important to remember that anti-imperialist powers in the world also contributed to this victory. The support of Soviet Russia and the ...
African debt is a painful subject for the continent, and in many ways a dark one: no one dares give exact figures, but one thing is certain: Africa’s debt is far more than it can afford. The loans of different types (with interests and without), and investments – most with “conditions”. Let us try to calculate the approximate debt figures ...