The Turkish public agenda has been busy with four main topics in the last week Firstly, HDP Members of Parliament were ripped of their immunity as requested by state persecutors. Secondly, a currency crisis hit the Turkish Lira, which has suddenly lost value as a part of the ongoing currency crisis since mid 2018. Thirdly, the Blue Homeland 2021 naval ...

By Nardine Ali A dead end for GERD talks, and a US’s abandonment for Cairo, Khartoum In a new round of prolonged negotiations, Egypt announced the failure of talks with Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), when Addis Ababa declared on February 10th its determination to commence the second phase of filling of the dam in next July. ...

The European Union and the People’s Republic of China announced on the last days of the year 2020 that a Comprehensive Investment Agreement (CAI) was finally reached after years of negotiations. United World International spoke about the CAI with Dr. Liu Zuokui, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies within the Institute of ...

The events in the South Caucasus and the recent coup attempt in Armenia cannot be understood in the framework of the past. The process is advancing very fast, and conditions and sides are changing very fast too. A new point of view and new tactics sometimes become necessary from one day to the other. We have examined the developments in ...