Three issues stood out last week on Türkiye’s electoral agenda: The PKK terrorist organization’s statement on the elections; new negotiations within the electoral alliances and Erdoğan’s economic measures towards the elections. PKK calls to overthrow Erdoğan The PKK, responsible for the deaths of more than 40,000 people with terrorist acts in Türkiye since the early 1980s, has announced its decision ...
There is a lot of diplomacy evolving around the Kosovo in the recent weeks. Among increasing tensions and even threats of clashes, negotiations between the Kosovar authorities and Serbia have started. The European Union plays a crucial role in mediating these. At the same time, hosting the biggest US military base in Europe, Kosovo is also considered a piece in ...
“Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) opposes arms deliveries to Ukraine arguing for Austria’s neutrality”
By Can Çakır According to the results of the latest election poll conducted by Unique Research and commissioned by the Austrian news magazine Profil, the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) is in first place with 31%. According to the poll, the FPÖ is ahead of the Social Democratic Party (25%) and Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s Austrian People’s Party (22%). United World ...
I have been in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, for a week. It snowed two days long, but now spring is in full bloom. It is invigorating with a blue sky that is rarely seen in Shanghai and fresh clean air. During the holy month of Ramadan, we are in a society that fulfills the obligations ...
The meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s President Xi Jinping on March 20 has been the most widely reported and commented meeting of the last few months. The meeting was characterized not only by the meeting of the heads of two powerful states, but also by the “personal bond” of the two leaders and the abundance of issues ...
By Ana Laura Dagorret / reporting from Rio da Janerio, Brazil * The governments of Brazil and China have advanced in negotiations so that trade and investment between the two countries can be carried out directly between the Real and the Yuan. Said agreement intends to exclude the US dollar as a reference currency in transactions between the two giants, ...
By Michael Roberts * Bank stock prices have stabilized at the start of last week. And all the key officials at the Federal Reserve, the US Treasury and the European Central Bank are reassuring investors that the crisis is over. Last week, Fed Chair Jerome Powell called the U.S. banking system “strong and resilient” and there was no risk of a banking ...
The Greek authorities announced this week the arrest of two Pakistani migrant land workers in Greece who were accused of planning a terrorist attack against a Jewish restaurant in central Athens, a restaurant which is serving also as a synagogue (sic). The supposed terrorists were receiving orders from a compatriot of them leaving in Iran, who, in his turn, received ...
To Julio García Jarpa, colleague and dear friend who left us before our time A noble and good man, loyal like few others. Just a few days ago, after reading my previous article, with his traditional humor he wrote to tell me “Write poet, you have a future” That’s how it will be dear brother, I promise I’ll keep doing ...
We are on the 20th anniversary of the invasion and brutal looting of Iraq. These 20 years have caused more impact and changes in the Middle East and the wider geography than perhaps any other period of comparable length. The powers were changed, the presidents who came to power by election or who ruled for many years with the support ...