A discussion of the arguments with which Ankara justified joining the initiative. By Halil Özsaraç, (Ret.) Turkish Staff Navy Captain In the first article, I addressed the founding and development story of the “Three Seas Initiative” an imperialist project in which Türkiye was accepted as a “strategic partner”. At this point, it’s worth opening a parenthesis: the “Three Seas” that ...
Background and Türkiye’s accession. By Halil Özsaraç, (Ret.) Turkish Staff Navy Captain On April 29, 2025, Türkiye’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure announced that Türkiye had become a “strategic partner” of the Three Seas Initiative. The Three Seas Initiative is an alliance established a decade ago in the region spanning the Baltic, Black, and Adriatic Seas in Central and Eastern ...
Security and Economic Dimensions By Mehmet Enes Beşer The second term of President Donald Trump signals the dawn of a new era in US-Japan relations, with opportunities and challenges. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s government has the daunting task of reconciling security commitments with economic interests, while adjusting to meet the evolving Indo-Pacific dynamics. Security Cooperation: Deepening the Alliance The US-Japan ...
Details of the deepening alliance between Pakistan, Azerbaijan and Türkiye. by Dure Akram, Lahore / Pakistan In recent weeks, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif of Pakistan has stepped into the spotlight with his strategic outreach to Central Asian nations, seeking to fortify economic ties and elevate Pakistan’s standing within a dynamic regional trade framework. His visit to Baku—which resulted in several ...
Key features of the treaty and the perspective of the Iranian opposition to it. By Masoud Sadrmohammadi Masoud Pezeshkian, the President of Iran, and Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, signed the “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation” on January 17, 2025, marking the beginning of a new era in Iran-Russia relations. ...
Moldova might be taught a lesson that all of Europe should take to heart. By Gökalp Erbaş The governments of both Moldova and Transnistria declared a state of emergency last December, initially for one month. Ukraine’s decision not to renew transit agreements for Russian gas for 2025 and Gazprom’s suspension of gas supplies to Moldova due to unpaid debts prompted ...
There is no doubt that oil and gas supplies are at the heart of the game of nations that has been going on for years of creative chaos and the “New Middle East” project. By Mohammed Sabreen, Cairo / Egypt “The player in the “Game of Nations” is forced by the nature of his surroundings to move in the game ...
Turkish expert Recep Erçin describes in interview with UWI consequences and ways out. By Yunus Soner On November 21, The United States announced applying sanctions against the Russian Gazprombank, an entity until today excepted from Washington’s pressure. Why is the Gazprombank important? What role does it play it the Turkish-Russian relations? And even further than that, for European countries? And ...
Currently, the struggle over the corridor is more between Iran and Russia than between Azerbaijan and Armenia. By Tehran Tapdigov, Baku / Azerbaijan The statement that ended the Second Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and Armenia contains several clauses. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and Russian leader Vladimir Putin signed a statement related to this on November ...
Tehran’s reasons to object to the corridor and the future of the tensions. By Mehmet Akif Akıncı Following a meeting between Iran’s former president, Ebrahim Raisi, and Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, on the banks of the Aras River, many believed that the tensions between Iran and Azerbaijan over the Zangezur Corridor had finally subsided. It was thought that ...