Members of parliament attended the BRICS-Europe meeting. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) participated in the “BRICS–Europe” symposium held in Sochi from 13 to 17 November. The presence of the AfD’s European Parliament member Hans Neuhoff, MP Steffen Kotré, and chairperson of Saxony Jörg Urban, triggered a debate in Germany. How on earth could a political party of Germany attend “full-scaled ...

Paris’ proposal would mean that France enters the war outright, with Russia possibly responding in various different theaters. At the end of October, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) wrote in a report that France is preparing to deploy a contingent of up to 2000 soldiers and officers to Ukraine. UWI author, historian and political scientist Associate Professor Mehmet Perinçek commented ...

Impressions from a trip to a country once leading in Europe. I first went to Germany in the summer of 1989. My last visit was in 2016. In 2016, I went to many cities and towns, giving numerous conferences in different regions. In total, I might have travelled close to 20 times to this country. Earlier this month, after a ...

Armed Forces held an exercise in the middle of the city center. With the Red Storm Bravo exercise, the German armed forces, Bundeswehr, are conducting a war exercise for the first time not only in the port, but also on a large scale in several districts of the northern German metropolis of Hamburg. The maneuver scenario involves NATO “troops arriving ...

Interview with the party’s main candidate ahead of local elections tomorrow. Germany’s state of North Rhine-Westphalia heads to the election on September 14. With only a few days remaining before the election, parties are stepping up their campaigns. One of these parties is the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – BSW), which narrowly missed the threshold of minimum vote ...

On a possible alliance between the Alternative for Germany and the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht. By Doğu Perinçek, Chairman of the Vatan Party (Türkiye) Today, however, Germany –no matter from which perspective one looks—is standing on the threshold of a path that could be called “moving closer to the East”. The necessity of economic cooperation with rising Asia, particularly China, the ...

On Europe’s militarization and its growing economic and political crises, from the Turkish community in Germany, to Türkiye–Germany relations, from cultural imperialism to and Israel’s aggression. Tomasz Froelich is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. He also serves on the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Delegation for Relations with ...

Germany sets up military posts just 20 km from the Russian border, while NATO pursues military exercises along Türkiye’s borders. By Deniz Yıldırım Germany has begun to deploy troops to Lithuania, with the “need to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank”. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius visited the 45th Tank Brigade stationed in Lithuania. This move marks the ...

Despite the new government’s militarization politics, there might be a new chapter for German-Russian relations on the horizon. By Cengiz Köse The majority of German society punished the previous war-mongering government in the elections on 23 February 2025. With the defeat of the SPD-Greens, the “left” of imperialism weakened in Germany. However, the German society, trying to escape the rain, ...

The designated minister for culture and media calls decolonization “a landslide loss of power” and demands to rewrite history serving expansive global policy. Following the recent federal elections, the new German government and its cabinet of ministers is expected to be announced soon. Meanwhile, the country’s expected new chancellor Friedrich Merz has already pushed forward with a further militarization of ...