The history of Ottoman Jews in Asia Minor, particularly the Sephardim, began when they migrated to Turkey from Europe after the Alhambra decree in Spain of 1492. After the fall of Andalusia, today Spain, Jews struggled to continue living not only in Spain, but also encountered difficulties in other European countries in the late fifteenth century.[i] Eventually, the Sephardim (in ...
The government of Mexico has celebrated the 238 anniversary of the birth of Simon Bolivar, “El Libertador de América” on past Saturday. The state ceremony was held in the Presidential Palace to honor Bolivar, who is considered a hero of anti-colonial struggle and Latin American unity. The ceremony took place within the framework of Mexico’s bicentennial anniversary of independence in ...
Tunisia has faced a political turmoil on Sunday. The country’s president Kais Saied dismissed the Prime Minister Hichem Mechici and closed the parliament for 30 days. Saied announced that he was firing Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and that he and a new prime minister, to be named in the coming hours, would take up executive authority. Saied announced his decisions ...
Once again the European Union, pushed by the United States, has made a self-defeating move against China, continuing their participation in Washington’s New Cold War. EU foreign ministers have approved plans to develop a rival global investment strategy to China’s Belt and Road Initiative in order to counter Beijing’s growing influence in countries across the world. The “Globally Connected Europe” ...
Exactly a year ago, United World International expert Mehmet Perinçek interviewed H.E. Ersin Tatar, President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus on July 20, 2020. On the occasion of recent Pakistani indications to recognize the TRNC as a sovereign state, the visit of Turkish President to the island and the debate in the UN Security Council on the opening ...
By Cansu Yiğit “Over many, many years, we’ve served together in Afghanistan. We’ve been able to contain, to a certain degree, terrorist dangers, but unfortunately we have not been able to build a nation as we would like it to look” said the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, admitting the defeat in Afghanistan during a meeting with the US President Joe ...
Kyiv – Ukraine The Ukrainian government has been attempting to improve relations with China, with whom it had some serious problems only a few months ago. The two governments have signed a cooperation agreement on construction works and this agreement also opens the way for Ukraine to get credit from China. People close to the Ukrainian Government have even praised ...
The United States is continuing its pressure on Cuba and the socialist republic resists. Following the protests of July 11, which partly were supported and organized by the United States, president Biden declared Cuba a “failed state repressing its citizens” on July 15. Biden stated, “communism is a failed system — a universally failed system. And I don’t see socialism ...
By Tunç Akkoç The US and Germany have come to an agreement on the Nord Stream project, which had caused tensions and evolved to an issue of biggest bilateral crisis between the two countries during a long time. Representatives of both governments have announced to have achieved an agreement. Some details of the agreement are becoming already public. US sanctions ...
Abstract of a report by UWI expert Dimitris Konstantakopoulos to an international conference on NAM, organized by the Paris I Sorbonne and Havres Universities, on 20-22.2.2021 War, expansion and imperialism have been some of the main paths used by the western capitalist system, in order to overcome its crises and impasses, as proved by colonialism and WWI and II. For ...