Pope Francis made his first foreign trip since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic to Iraq, a country that has been hit with numerous terrorist attacks since Joe Biden took office. Iraq has been plagued by insecurity and crisis since the US-led invasion in 2003, which took millions of lives among its civilians and forced hundreds of thousands into exile. ...
A court in Ankara sentenced five people to lifelong prison over the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov. The judgment pointed out that the killing of Karlov was “a provocative action against Turkish-Russian ties.” The court found Salih Yilmaz guilty of “ordering” Mevlut Mert Altintas to kill Karlov, sentencing Yilmaz to two life sentences. Sahin Sogut, deemed a ...
The “Arctic Ocean” or the “Arctic Sea” has turned into one of the major hegemonic conflict areas of the 21st century. The potentiality to connect approximately 75% of the world’s population due to the melting ice, and its rich seabed and living marine resources turns the region into a major arena of great power competition. China’s last year self-definition as ...
Turkey and Egypt are in the middle of a historic process. The two countries have the opportunity to change the equation in the region and especially in the Eastern Mediterranean, if the right steps are taken. Turkey has interpreted recent decisions of Egypt in the Eastern Mediterranean as a move of goodwill, and Ankara has started calls to Cairo for ...
By Liu Xin, Correspondent of Beijing-based Global Times, exclusive for United World International Recently, the international community has witnessed a new round of hype in some Western countries on the topic of the Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. This time, the US and its Western allies are trying to label China’s actions as “genocide” – a severe accusation against ...
In this article we seek to make a contribution to the analysis of the Salvadoran political system within the framework of the Nayib Bukele government that began in 2019 and an apparent weakening of the historic Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). Last February’s 28 legislative and municipal elections offer a privileged setting where the deployment of political actors, the ...
In the last week, Turkish public agenda had been busy with two main topics. First topic was a possible reconciliation between Egypt and Turkey, two countries that had tense relations over couple years. Second topic was the ongoing vaccination efforts, the local normalization efforts and the Health Ministry’s ongoing struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Turkey could sign an agreement on ...
By Orçun Göktürk The so-called Two Sessions, the reunion of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) have started in the last week in Beijing. In the Two Sessions, China has determined a clear target for economic growth in 2021. The Two Sessions, considered also to be the world’s biggest legislative reunion, are the ...
Doğacan Başaran, ANKASAM expert, evaluated the visit of the Pope to United World International. Stating that the Vatican is trying to enforce the “Moderate Islam” project of the West on the states of the region under the “Interfaith Dialogue” discourse, Başaran drew attention to the goals of the Biden administration in the region. The Catholics’ religious leader Pope Francis’s visit ...
The recent traffic of diplomacy between Ankara and Cairo has become a top topic in the Eastern Mediterranean. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has declared that Ankara was open to negotiate Exclusive Economic Zone borders in the Eastern Mediterranean with Egypt and displayed even readiness to sign an agreement. The Foreign Minister’s declarations called the “fragile relation” between Turkey and ...