Turkish youth shakes global media with its protest action. On September 3rd, 15 members of the Vatan Party’s youth wing, Vanguard Youth, put a hood on the head of a US soldier in the Turkish city of Izmir. The US soldiers were stationed on the USS Wasp, the largest assault ships in the American fleet, docked at Izmir Port. Following ...
Reporting from Incirlik, Adana, Türkiye This Saturday, Ankara announced to withdraw its ambassador to Israel, criticizing that Tel Aviv does not accept an immediate truce to end the attacks against Palestine. The response came from the United States, with Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, who included Türkiye at the last minute in his travel plan through Western Asia. Upon arriving ...
Violent protests have shaken France in recent weeks. According to Elie Hatem, these are a reflection of a longer trend as well as result of intervention by foreign powers. Hatem explains the historic transformation that took place in French politics, society and culture during the last century. Elie Hatem is Doctor of law, lawyer at the Paris Bar Association and ...
United World International author Onur Sinan Güzaltan commented on the ongoing events in France to the Turkish Service of the Islamic Republic of Iran News Agency (IRNA). Translated into English by Uwidata. First of all, I would like to remind that similar protests took place in 2005, first in Paris and then in the suburbs. The reasons and roots are ...
The capital city of France keeps on burning. Surely, there are many reasons for this fire that started in the suburbs and spread to the center of Paris. Social injustice, police brutality, integration problems of migrant children, lack of education, exclusion, harsh conditions in the suburbs, economic crisis, etc. The most important reason, maybe the root cause, dates back 400 ...
We talked to Israil Shamir, one of Russia’s leading Middle East experts, about the protests in Israel and the latest developments in the region. Anti-Netanyahu protests continue in Israel. It is stated that even the members of the army and intelligence support the actions. Is the reason for the actions in Israel only the draft judicial reform or is there ...
France is witnnesing widespread protests against NATO in the recent weeks. Behind these are repeated calls to leave the military alliance. The Solidarité and Progres Party has also presented such a call, which has been signed by citizens and several retired members of the armed forces. The call is presented below in English translation. For the original text in French ...
We spoke about the protests in Georgia against the government with the Director of the Center for Islamic Studies of the Caucasus Shota Apkhaidze. Currently in Tbilisi, the Georgian political scientist Apkhaidze explained the reasons and future of the protests to United World International. How do you interpret the recent incidents in Georgia? The Georgian president declared that she supports ...
By Odile Mojon, Paris / France Is France experiencing a “mass strike” in the image of what Rosa Luxemburg spoke about? First of all, it should be remembered that beyond France, other European countries (England, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain) are affected, or have recently been affected, by major strike movements, for similar reasons. These are sometimes related to the imposition ...
Egypt, along with the rest of the world, is passing through a ring of fire. The Egyptian economy, which has been on shaky ground for many years, is now openly on the brink of bankruptcy. For the fourth time in the last six years, the Cairo government has had to knock on the door of the IMF. But neither the ...