Burning the Kuwaiti flag ignites dispute between the two peoples Footage of an Egyptian citizen offering pedestrians to burn the Kuwaiti flag for LE 500 ($31) has stirred controversy through the social media platforms, where Kuwaitis expressed their outrage over the insult to their country’s symbol. The heat has moved from social media to the official Kuwaiti authorities. The Kuwaiti ...
Recent events in Turkey went by full speed over the last week. The maritime border agreement signed between Greece and Egypt, the Turkish role in the political incidents after the explosion in Lebanon and the uncontrollable increase in foreign exchange rates were the three main topics on the agenda. “AN INVALID DEAL” The agreement signed last week between Greece and ...
Protests in Beirut have follow the tragic explosion After two explosions killed more than 150 people and injured thousands on the evening of August 4 in Beirut, protests erupted in the Lebanese capital, including with arson and violent confrontations with the police. During the protests, demonstrators attacked the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...
The 5th Fleet, which Soviet Russia first established in the Mediterranean in 1963-64, is now challenging the 6th Fleet of the US in the waters of the Mediterranean. The pessimistic attitudes towards Turkish-Russian friendship in Syria, Libya and the Eastern Mediterranean today are based on the idea that Russia is moving toward warm waters. In fact, the issue of navigating ...
The objective ground on which a “social game” is built limits the performance options of the parties. The conclusion of the game is revealed by the combination of the performance chosen by the parties. But the game is also embedded in a “social environment”. This environment affects the performance of the performance composition played to the parties. This effect sometimes ...
A hypocritical spectacle The dust from the devastating blast, which caused enormous damage to Beirut and resulted in numerous human casualties had not yet dissipated before French President Emmanuelle Macron landed in the capital of Lebanon. Macron was the first foreign head of state to visit Beirut after a monstrous blast that killed almost 200 people and wounded 5,000. However, ...
Antonio Guterres, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, delivered a speech in New York on July 18, 2020, which was at odds with his usual position and line. He declared that the Order established by the Atlantic camp 70 years ago had been destroyed, and called for the establishment of a New World Order. The annual lecture of the UN Secretary General ...
Türkiye’yi siyasi platformda zora sokmak, itibarını zedelemek için tıpkı Amerika’daki radikal Ermeniler gibi Güney Afrika’da da radikal bölücü gruplar, en az 30 yıldır Türk devleti aleyhine propaganda faaliyetleri yürütmektedir. Şüphesiz bu faaliyetlerin esas gayesi Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’ni bölmek ve sözde bir Kürt devleti kurmaktır. İsrail ve Amerika başta olmak üzere Türkiye’yi düşman gören bütün devletlerin bu tür menfi oluşumlara destek verdiği ...
On July 5, Egypt announced that it had suspended participation in negotiations with Ethiopia on the Hidase – Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) hydroelectric power plant and that additional internal consultations would be held. The text of the agreement proposed by the Ethiopian side was the main reason for the collapse in negotiations: according to the Egyptian Ministry of Water ...
The port of Beirut and its surrounding suburbs were rocked on Tuesday by the massive explosion, that left at least 135 people dead and nearly 4,000 injured. The death toll is constantly increasing, many people are missing and the hospitals are overcrowded. The blast was the largest in the history of Lebanon. More than 300,000 people have been left homeless with ...