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 ...
The Second World War was finally coming to an end. The US President Truman has told the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin through a Russian translator, that they have developed and successfully tested “a new weapon of unusual destructive force”, during the conference at the Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany, on July 24th 1945. Exactly 13 days after that conference was ...
2020 has been an extremely difficult year for Iran. The Islamic Republic only recently lost a top ranking name of the military wing, the second most powerful name of the country, in a terrorist act organized by the US early in the year… Now the country is now shocked by the news of the assassination Muhsin Fahrizade Mahabadi, who is ...
The second round of the presidential elections in Moldova and the victory of the pro-Western candidate Maia Sandu has brought the attention of the world to this Eastern European country. In this article, I will try to evaluate the elections in Moldova within the context of the historical background of the country. A conflict zone between Russia and the West ...
There are not many people in the world who doubt that Israeli secret services are responsible for the assassination of the prominent Iranian physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the “father” of the Iranian nuclear program. Without openly admitting it, the Israelis did nothing to amuse such impressions, instead they “anonymously” admitted their responsibility to the New York Times. The assassination of the ...
The history of modern football is the history of centuries-old clubs, giant companies, fat-cat managers, legendary coaches, hundreds of thousands of fans, shocking stories of success and failure and, above all, “icons”. The fact that this game, which is based on the working class, has transformed into an industry dominated by millions of dollars in such a short time reveals ...