On August 7, an explosion occurred in the port of Kocaeli in Türkiye at grain silos, right after the unloading of grain from a cargo arriving from the Russian port of Novorossiysk. Dr Eray Güçlüer says its too early to speak of sabotage, but observes some suspicious moments in the explosion. At the same time, international diplomacy around the ...
NATO has approved a new defense plan on its recent summit in Vilnius, the United States is accelerating moves to increase presence in the Black Sea where the Ukrainian forces continuously attack Russian ships. Meanwhile, Russia has suspended the Grain Corridor agreement. We spoke to ret. Admiral Ali Deniz Kutluk from the Turkish Naval Forces on all these issues and ...
Grain aid from Russia to developing countries: ‘This shows what the multipolar world order promises’
United World International author Mehmet Perinçek commented to Sputnik News Türkiye on Russian proposals concerning the grain corridor via the Black Sea. UWI presents the interview, published in Turkish here, in English translation below as published by the news agency. After the suspension of the grain agreement by Russia, the Russian Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev announced that they were ...
On July 22nd in Istanbul, Russia and Ukraine signed a package of documents mediated by Türkiye and the United Nations to solve the problem of food and fertilizer supplies to world markets. Earlier, the EU and the U.S. had stated that the conflict in Ukraine threatened the world’s poorest countries with a food crisis. However, after the agreements of Istanbul, ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * Perhaps it is a commonplace to say that in the face of the obvious inability of the Ukrainian and NATO governments to achieve success in the war arena, the main war effort has increasingly begun to be waged in the media. Here, the United States and the West still retain a great advantage given the ...
Nearly simultaneously with the Tehran Summit, US President Joe Biden visited the region. What was the outcome of this visit? First of all, I would say this: The US has lost trust in West Asia. To give a couple of examples: that the US-Iran nuclear negotiations did not satisfy Saudi Arabia, the significant withdrawal of US military forces from the ...
Last week, there was a heavy diplomatic traffic in Türkiye. The first important visitor to Ankara was the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Another important visit took place in Ankara, during the same period, by the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Also another important development of this week was President Erdogan’s statements on changing the official name of the country to ...