As other countries, Argentina is going to economically hard times. The country faces high inflation, the national currency is weak and additional pressures come from long time relations and recent agreements with the IMF. In the last weeks, the people have started protesting the economic situation in demonstrations and on the streets. On the economic situation and the protests, we ...
By Rafael Fakhrutdinov William Burns and Sergey Naryshkin, heads of the CIA and the SVR, visited the Armenian capital three days apart. The authorities of the republic claim that this is only a coincidence. With Burns, they discussed the “peace process” with neighboring Türkiye, and Naryshkin was invited to “share his experience” – to help with the creation of his ...
United World International expert Onur Sinan Güzaltan evaluated the Türkiye-NATO agreement to Iranian media. Türkiye agreed to lift opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO. How do you see such a move? While evaluating this decision from the Turkish government, we should take into account the fact that presidential elections will be held in Türkiye next year, and the current ...
Russia-NATO relations have been discussed since Russia’s military campaign against Ukraine. One of the most important issues affecting relations in the current context is whether NATO promised Russia that it would not “expand eastward” during the unification of the East and West Germanys. In many of his speeches, Vladimir Putin refers to NATO’s “broken promises” from the early 1990s onwards. ...
On July 14, the US President and the Israeli Prime Minister signed the Strategic Partnership Joint Declaration in Jerusalem. In this statement, the US “further affirms the commitment to work together with other partners to confront Iran’s aggression and destabilizing activities”. Two days later, The US President stated in the speech held at the Gulf Cooperation Council: “We will not ...
The global economy is struggling with high inflation, problems in supply chains, widespread poverty. One of the most debated topics are energy and specifically oil prices. In that context, eyes have turned to Venezuela, the country with the biggest global oil reserves. On the situation and perspective of the Italian economy, we spoke with Giuseppe Masala, an Italian economist and ...
By Mehmet Kıvanç The Syrian army is beginning to show presence again at the border with Türkiye, from where it had withdrawn in 2012. While Türkiye’s preparations for a military operation are ongoing, the Syrian Armed Forces have sent military contingents to Ayn el Arab (Kobane), Tel Rifat and Manbij. Russia is forcing the YPG to agree to Damascus’ terms, ...
Aidan Aslin is a British national who fought as a mercenary at the side of the YPG/PKK in the north of Syria in 2015 and 2016. Upon his return to the United Kingdom, he was detained, but released afterwards and went back to Syria. He expressed himself in support for a so-called Kurdish autonomous region in Syria and called Western ...
The public agenda of Türkiye has been busy with three main topics last week. First was the telephone conversation between the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Second was the summit held in Istanbul between military delegations of Russia, Türkiye and Ukraine and UN representatives, on a possible grain corridor. Third was the trilateral meeting ...
By Lee Jaesung * On July 8, two gunshots resounded in the streets, shocking the world. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at the age of 67, was shot dead during a campaign for support. There are still many unresolved doubts around him, but one thing that everyone can agree on is that an important giant of Japanese diplomacy of ...