By Mehmet Perinçek President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s announcement of Türkiye’s request to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) raised a buzz around the world. As a consequence, the issue started to be discussed in Türkiye in various aspects as well. Özel’s objections to the SCO Among them, the approach of Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Özgür Özel stands out. Disregarding ...
By Orçun Göktürk / Beijing, China The emergence of a more equitable multipolar world order, where power is distributed among many leading states rather than dominated by a single hegemon, offers significant opportunities for Türkiye. The transition away from a Western-centered paradigm towards an integrated Eurasian identity is the most important option for Turkish foreign policy. Since the second half ...
Last week we took a “trip” through the de-dollarization process that we characterize as inevitable. Today we will continue the analysis trying to reach some conclusions while considering that it is still not clear what will be the alternative to the dollar as the main currency. Several options are available. One of them will emanate from the decision taken by ...
The public agenda in Türkiye was busy with three main topics last week. First was the attendance of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Second were the reactions to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ statements against Türkiye at the UN General Assembly. The third topic was the Türkiye’s resentment over ...
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is breaking new ground every day, developing constantly towards becoming an important player in the world, which many expect to become a multipolar one in the near future. The organization was formed in 2001, and included Russia, China and 4 Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. India and Pakistan joined in 2017. There are ...
By Utku Reyhan The Samarkand summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was held on September 15-16. The summit came at an eventful time, with Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, the grain, fertilizer and energy crisis, the Taiwan provocation, an attempted coup in Kazakhstan, the US defeat in Afghanistan, Greece’s harassment in the Aegean and the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict. Among the ...
By Said Ali Batrouni * With a significant shift in Türkiye’s strategy toward the Assad regime in Syria, where he has been insisting on regime change, Erdogan stated that Türkiye’s goal in Syria is to find a political solution to the country’s decade-long civil war, rather than defeating Assad. Ankara’s recent statement that it is willing to normalize relations with ...
Following the withdrawal of the US from Afghanistan, Central Asia has once again returned to the focus of international politics. Meanwhile, the Turkish foreign ministry long declared the “Asia Anew” initiative, aiming at deepening relations with Asian countries. United World International expert Mehmet Perinçek gave an interview to the Iranian Eastern Strategic Research Center on Turkey’s relations with Central Asian ...
The 21st Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was held on Friday with leaders of member states attending by video link and in-person in Dushanbe, the capital city of Tajikistan, as it holds the SCO presidency this year, which marks the 20th anniversary of the organization’s establishment. The meeting was historic, because ...
The 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan was the initial phase of a project which American neocons called the Greater Middle East Project, aimed at partitioning an entire region spanning from West Asia, North Africa and Central Asia. Twenty years later from that day, Taliban militia are entering Kabul on one side, and American diplomats are rushing to evacuate the embassy ...