Over the past few months, the Sahelian country has increased its persecution of migrants in transit through the country, with multiple reports of human rights violations. By Anna Enrech Calbet* In Mauritania, September and October are the hottest months of the year. This heat translates into nearly empty streets during the day, which fill up as the sun begins to ...
Foreign policy positions and militarization steps The European Commission and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy released “Preserving Peace – Defense Readiness Roadmap 2030” on October 16. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen explained the need for this Roadmap by saying “The recent threats have shown that Europe is at risk”. The Roadmap is built on the ...
Interview with Russian thinker and political theorist Aleksandr Dugin on Russia-US relations The Teori Dergisi, which is published in Türkiye, conducted a comprehensive interview with Russian thinker and political theorist Aleksandr Dugin on Russia-US relations. The interview, which addressed many important issues, especially the relations between Trump and Putin and the Ukraine issue, is still relevant. We are publishing the ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen The European Parliament elections are being held between 6-9 June. We are in a position to make clearer inferences about the EP structure and the distribution of groups following the elections. We will use the data of the survey results of the Ipsos research group conducted in March 2024 with 26 thousand voters in the 18 ...
Reporting from Cairo, Egypt Over the past two years, Egypt has been facing bleak economic prospects that have been worsening day by day. The features of its economic crisis began to take shape and worsen clearly after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war in February 2022, but the flight of hot money from the country thwarted all government tricks to ...
By Tolga Dişçi The most important event of the last days in Hungary is the resignation of the President. Hungarian President Katalin Novak’s pardon of a person convicted in a sexual abuse case sparked public reactions and Novak resigned on 10 February. Hungarian journalist Ferenc Almassy, Editor-in-Chief of Visegrad Post, explained the developments to us. How do you interpret the ...
Russian President Putin’s proposal to establish a gas energy hub in Türkiye is in negotiations between the Russian company Gazprom and Turkish BOTAŞ, state-owned-entreprise responsible for transportation and sale of natural gas. We spoke about the idea of becoming an energy hub with Professor Şenay Yalçın from the Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul. An Yalçın spend his entire academic life researching ...
The railway tragedy in central Greece, where a still unknown number of mostly young people (probably more than 100) have perished, is an incomprehensible accident. In 2023, it is simply inconceivable that two trains will move on the same track and in opposite directions without anyone in the system – machine or human – watching them and averting the collision. Recently ...
The recent visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to the United States has surfaced differences among the transatlantic powers in respect to the policy towards Russia and the Ukraine crisis. These constitute part of a quest for a new international order. At the same time, centrifugal forces within the European Union are gaining strength. We spoke about these and more ...
On her visit to Cairo, Egypt, EU Commission President von der Leyen signed a joint statement with Egyptian President al Sisi and a Memorandum of Understanding with Egyptian and Israeli counterparts on June 15. The European – Egyptian joint statement referred to the fact that Egypt is hosting this years climate summit COP 27. Both sides agreed to advance the ...