French President Emmanuel Macron and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock visited China one after another. Macron’s interview during the visit sparked a huge controversy in the US and Europe. Some of Baerbock’s statements were directly related to Macron’s remarks. Macron’s and Baerbock’s statements further highlighted crucial differences of approach between the two countries’ leadership on a number of key issues. ...
By Oscar Rotundo * What has been the change in the electoral system with respect to 2018 and what is its importance with respect to the future of the country? Yunus Soner – Good afternoon Oscar from here in Istanbul, I am going to try to provide you with an analysis of the situation. Candidates and coalitions On May 14, ...
United World International author Mehmet Perinçek gave an interview to the Russian news agency RIA Novosti about the situation in Sudan. We present the interview, published in Russian, to our readers translated into English. The United States will try to intervene in the situation in Sudan in order to divide the country into even smaller parts. Türkiye, Russia and China ...
The electoral agenda in Türkiye continues to be intense and complex. The main development that marked last week in relation to the electoral agenda were the government and opposition’s messages to the U.S. Main opposition party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was attacked verbally and physically, which drew public reaction. Another significant development of the week was the program announced by the ...
Istanbul hosted several official and unofficial talks on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. During the Istanbul talks, Russian and Ukrainian officials had almost come to an agreement with Türkiye’s mediation. This agreement, which did not suit the U.S.’s purpose, was undermined with the provocation in Bukcha last year. Then the Grain Corridor Agreement was signed once again with Türkiye’s mediation. This agreement ...
Sergey Mironov, Chairman of the A Just Russia – For Truth Party and State Duma deputy, is an experienced politician. He undertook critical duties in the state, especially the Presidency of the Federal Council of the Russian Federation (2001-2011), which came after the President and the Prime Minister in the Russian state protocol. I asked Mironov questions about Türkiye-Russia relations, ...
We have thoroughly examined the role played by the Dashnaks in igniting mutual massacres and serving imperialist plans, leading our region to various disasters, especially in our books titled “The Armenian Issue in 150 Documents from Russian State Archives,” “The Adventure of Armenian Nationalism,” and “Turkish-Soviet Military Cooperation in the Caucasus (1919-1922).” We have displayed the collaborative, aggressive, chauvinist and ...
By Bessam Abu Abdullah * The presidential and parliamentary elections in Türkiye also concern the unity and sovereignty of Syria, the laws regulating the marriage, family and property laws of the Islamic, Messianic, Jewish and Druze communities, and the future of the secular and unitary state structure. They are also about whether the ethnic and sectarian separatist goals of the ...
During the first week of Russia’s special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine in February last year, Russian troops reached the vicinity of Kyiv and Kharkov, Ukraine’s two main cities. They stayed there for a month. The world was waiting impatiently for the moment when the Kremlin would order the offensive to take the capital. However, on April 1, the Russian ...
The reconciliation between Iran and Saudi Arabia, mediated by China, reflects a change not only in the Middle East but also across the globe. And it is a vivid example to manifest China’s Global Security Initiative. The disputes between the two influential states of the Islamic world because of “sectarianism” were the most important policy used by the Atlantic forces ...
Behind the war in Ukraine was the US strategy of breaking the ties between Europe and Asia through destabilizing Eurasia. Washington’s 3 main objectives can be summarized as follows: To make Europe dependent on the US in all spheres including energy through the destruction of Europe-Russia relations, To put the world in a Cold War balance between West and East, ...
By Işıkgün Akfırat Solution-oriented diplomacy is advancing in a breathtaking speed in West Asia. After Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria, the times of peace have started in Yemen. Ali Al- Kahum, one of the leaders of the Ansarallah Movement emphasized Russia’s resistance to the West and China’s role as “great power that puts out the fires” in the region. He ...