The terrorist attack targeting the Italian Church in Istanbul last week was at the top of the agenda. The meeting between the head of the National Intelligence Organisation İbrahim Kalın and Hamas Political Bureau Chief İsmail Haniyeh in Doha took the second place on the agenda. Another important development was the resignation of the Governor of the Central Bank. ISIS ...

The Schiller Institute has organized in Paris an international conference titled “Water for Peace”. Various speakers from different countries participated on the conference held in January 9, 2024. As United World International, we consider the conference of strategic value and will publish in two parts the notes of Odile Mojon, one of the organizers. Below is the first part. In ...

By Geraldina Colotti If history is not reduced to a museum, dates and anniversaries remind of the struggle of the oppressed classes, which have built or suffered its courses and resources. If history is not reduced to parody, it celebrates moments and figures who interpreted its meaning by anticipating leaps and ruptures and adds new pages to the book of ...

The Turkish parliament gave its approval to Sweden’s NATO membership on 23 January. This approval has been a precondition for the US to allow the sale of the 40 F-16 fighter jets to Türkiye. On 26 January, the US government approved the sale. But the process is not yet finalized. There seems to be a dispute between the US and ...

Trying to understand what is happening, I spoke with several Argentine friends. I spoke with journalists, union leaders, small businessmen, academics, Peronist and leftist activists, and state officials. Below, I summarize some of the ideas that were presented to me and that I hope will contribute to thinking about what could happen in the immediate future. In the current condition, ...

ASO Taro, the first incumbent Deputy Prime Minister of Japan to make an official visit to Taiwan, delivered a speech in Taipei on August 8, in which he bluntly stated that Japan, Taiwan, the United States, and other volunteer nations must function as a strong deterrent force against China, and that he was “ready to fight”. The Yokohama City Employees’ ...

Last week in Türkiye, vote on Sweden’s NATO membership in the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) was at the top agenda. The visit of Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi was another important event. The announcement by the National Security Council (MGK) regarding the Montreux Convention, related to the insistence of the US/UK on entering the Black Sea, also found its place ...

Since the US-backed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has shifted its focus towards Eastern countries. In this period, cooperation in energy, economic, political, and even military fields has been developed with countries in the region, primarily Russia and Iran. However, the AKP government has failed to develop an economic model alternative US-centered ...

By Mehmet Yuva Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with members of the Central Committee of the Syrian Ba’ath Party on January 16. Urgent issues of the country, as well as various current global topics, especially Palestine, were discussed in the meeting. A few days after the meeting, by presidential decree, Syria’s National Security Chief (former General Intelligence Director) Ali Mamlouk ...

Argentina witnessed last week a general strike in response to recently elected President Javier Milei’s initiatives to cut back the state, subsidies and liberalize the economy. We spoke to Fernando Esteche, professor at the University of La Plata in Buenos Aires, about the participation in the strike and its immediate political results. How was the participation in the general strike? ...