Unveiling the Socio-Environmental Costs By Mehmet Enes Beşer Mongolia’s extensive mineral resources have turned it into a rapidly emerging mining center, with very high promises of rapid economic development and growth. But overlying this veneer of prosperity is a richly embroidered brocade of environmental degradation, social dislocation, and economic problems that need to be thoroughly examined. Environmental Degradation: The Ecological ...

Cooperation, not imposition. By Yiğit Saner Türkiye is steadily developing its relations with African countries. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan was recently in Niger, a key country in the Sahel region. The primary topics of Fidan’s talks were energy, mining, trade, intelligence and defense. Fidan was accompanied by Defense Minister Yaşar Güler, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar, and National ...