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 ...
Macar sinemasının ustalarından Zoltan Fabri’nin 1978’de çektiği “Macarlar” (Magyarok), 1943’te, İkinci Dünya Savaşı sürerken, kadınlı erkekli bir grup Macar köylünün çalışmak üzere Almanya’da bir çiftliğe gitmeleriyle başlayan süreci öyküler. Çiftliğin hemen yanında bir toplama kampı vardır ama Macar köylülerin Hitler’in kim olduğundan bile pek haberi yoktur. İyi kalpli soylu bir Alman’a ait çiftlikte, Macar kâhyanın gözetiminde bir yıl çalışıp biraz ...
The movie “Hungarians” (Magyarok), which was shot in 1978 by Zoltán Fábri, one of the masters of the Hungarian cinema, tells a story that begins when a group of Hungarian peasants, men and women, go to a farm in Germany to work in 1943, in the midst of the World War II. There happens to be a concentration camp right ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen EU leaders have held an extraordinary 2-day summit in February 25-26. Held via videoconference, the summit’s agenda on the first day was COVID-19. On the second day, relations with the NATO, the US President Biden and the EU’s defense and security policies were discussed. Of course, what draw attention to this summit was the participation of ...
The 44-day war in the South Caucasus last year is still hotly debated, and it seems that it will on the agenda for many years to come. This is due to the fact that, along with restoring the historical and legal justice, this war also created new realities in the region. The Azerbaijani side won the 44-day war and the ...
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) has been the main oppositional party since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. When Boris Yeltsin was governing Russia, fully capitulating to the West and executing liberal policies that caused great damage to the country, the CPRF was fighting openly and fiercely against the government. The CPRF was taking an antagonistic stance ...
Turkish Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu has made today in press conference important declarations concerning the Turkish-Egyptian relations in the context of the Eastern Mediterranean. In response to the relations of Ankara and Cairo, which have been tense since 2013, Çavuşoğlu said the following: “Egypt has declared that it will conduct gas exploration activities in the Eastern Mediterranean in respect to our ...