Thank you very much for your invitation to participate in this very important debate, an invitation both honorable and very interesting for me. (*) There is a tendency nowadays to examine the cultural questions and among them the question of values independently of the socio-economic, material processes and also from geopolitics. I believe it is a huge mistake, and this ...
The Ukrainian War, Pelosi’s Taiwan visit and the Greek provocations in the Aegean… The United States of America (USA) is putting in even more efforts to prevent the multipolar world to take its shape. When we evaluate Washington’s actions in different regions, we can come up with these two main propositions; 1. The USA is in an effort to destabilise ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * After Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, many opinions were expressed about what China could and should do in response. Last week, we reviewed some actions that readers sent me as a conclusion to their own reflections. Many of them were of a confrontational and catastrophic nature, assuming the need for a reply by China that ...
Last week, the public agenda in Türkiye discussed the announcements made after the meeting between the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Sochi; the alleged possibility of a diplomatic meeting between Erdogan and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad by the Turkish-government affiliated Türkiye Newspaper; and the recent tensions with Greece. Erdogan spoke after the Sochi ...
There is tension again on the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border. After the agreement of November 10, 2020, for the first time, military operations on this scale were carried out in the region, the Azerbaijani army flew attack drones again, and a significant number of personnel and military equipment of the Armenian side were destroyed. What was the reason? In fact, this ...
At present, pessimistic approaches base themselves on the hearsay that “Russia will land in the warm waters” in order to reject Turkish-Russian friendly relations in Syria, Libya and the eastern Mediterranean. In fact, the question of accessing the “warm waters” goes back to Russia’s search for a ‘non-freezing harbor’, which started as early as the 18th century. At that time, ...
Russia’s campaign in Ukraine has opened new debates about Europe’s historical and prospective positions on the US-Russia axis. In 20th century European history, Charles de Gaulle is one of the most prominent figures to be considered in this context. We interviewed Ali Rıza Taşdelen, a journalist and Vatan Party (Türkiye) executive who closely follows French politics, about de Gaulle’s life, ...
Nearly simultaneously with the Tehran Summit, US President Joe Biden visited the region. What was the outcome of this visit? First of all, I would say this: The US has lost trust in West Asia. To give a couple of examples: that the US-Iran nuclear negotiations did not satisfy Saudi Arabia, the significant withdrawal of US military forces from the ...
The Eastern Mediterranean Basin was included in the new Russian Naval Doctrine approved recently. The area is considered for the first time as a “region that would significantly affect the country’s economic development, national prosperity and security”. And the growing Russian interest in the Eastern Mediterranean creates some important opportunities for Türkiye and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). ...
The Turkish government is repeatedly stating its will to pursue another military opeation in the north of Syria. Ankara has also brought up the topic on the recent meeting of the Astana trio in Tehran in meetings with Iranian and Russian counterparts. We interviewed Ismail Hakkı Pekin, retired Lieutenant-General of the Turkish Armed Forces and former Head of Military Intelligence ...