On Wednesday, July 29, the Pentagon announced the decision to withdraw 12,000 servicemen from Germany. According to the plan, 6.4 thousand soldiers will return home, while 5.6 thousand will be moved to other European countries. US military presence in Germany will drop from 36,000 to 24,000. In June, US President Donald Trump announced that he decided to reduce the US ...
Our ancestors who chose Anatolia, a land surrounded by seas, for their homeland rewarded future generations in doing so. Despite that the Ottomans had established an empire stretching over three continents with corresponding requirements of its political geography, they could not grasp the status of a maritime power even in a theoretical sense, with the exception of the 16th century. ...
Today, Libya is one of the few states that is beyond comparison in its apparent relationship with the art of cinema, its distinctive history in the medium, famous directors and national cinema. Although it has attracted many moviemakers in the West due to its deserts and mysterious cities and has been used as an open stage for many films being ...
Relations between Washington and Beijing continue to deteriorate. The last week was marked by two important events: first, Chinese diplomats left the Consulate General of China in Houston, which was closed at the request of the United States. On July 21, the United States authorities demanded that the consulate be closed, claiming that it had been used by Chinese hackers ...
The domestic political situation in Mali is only getting worse: the country is split, political elites oriented towards France are no longer satisfied with the population, leaders of different groups offer varying alternatives. For those unfamiliar, UWI covered the general situation in an earlier article. The Great Anti-French Revolution in Mali: Françafrique Fails Against this background, it is interesting that ...
THOSE THAT LIVE IN A FANTASY WORLD What did the President of TRNC Akinci say after 46 years, during his speech on June 25, 2020? “The Greek Cypriots are our brothers.” Yes, it seems we have not learned from our history and repeatedly make the same mistakes. After the disaster referendum for the 2004 Annan Plan, this ghost appeared again ...
Günümüz dünyasında, sinema sanatıyla belirgin ilişkisinden, belirgin sinema geçmişinden, tanınmış sinema sanatçılarından ve ulusal sinemasından söz edilemeyecek az sayıdaki devletten biri de Libya. Bir Kuzey Afrika ve Akdeniz ülkesi olarak, çölleri ve gizemli şehirleri dolayısıyla zaman zaman Batı dünyasından sinemacıların ilgisini çekmiş ve pek çok filmde mekan olarak kullanılmışsa da 2011’den bu yana yaşanan derin kaos ve iç savaş nedeniyle ...
The UK government recently announced that US backed opposition candidate Juan Guaido would be given exclusive access Venezuelan gold. This news alerted the international press and, above all, to the government of Nicolás Maduro, who has been attempting to repatriate some 30 tons of Venezuelan gold. Venezuelan reserves are now at risk because of the difficult international context arising from ...
The 97th anniversary of the treaty of Lausanne was celebrated throughout Turkey last week, the document being seen as the political title deed of the Republic of Turkey, founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The Lausanne Peace Treaty, which guaranteed the recognition of the Republic of Turkey as an independent and a sovereign state after the War of Independence, was signed ...
Algeria is already involved The threat of a new large-scale conflict in Libya, primarily Egyptian intervention and a direct or indirect clash between Turkey and Egypt in the Battle of Sirte, naturally resulted in a lot of anxiety among Libya’s neighbors. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune made a number of rather sharp statements, saying in an interview with local media that ...