The Turkish public agenda has been busy discussing the diplomatic disturbance with Iran over the issue of President Erdogan reading a poem in the Azerbaijani capital Baku. The poem was alleged to undermine the territorial integrity of Iran, according to Iranian officials. The other important topic this week was the ongoing pandemic lockdowns and vaccination efforts. While the Health Ministry ...
The US Treasury Department on Monday imposed sanctions which are part of Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) on Turkey over its purchase of the Russian S-400 missile defense system. The sanctions targeted Turkey’s Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB), its head Ismail Demir and three other officials. US State Secretary Mike Pompeo said in a statement SSB knowingly engaged ...
The victory of Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden in the US presidential election seems as though it will lead to a change in American policy when it comes to Iran. Numerous experts claim that Joe Biden will return the US to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) (nuclear deal) concluded in 2015. Since Barack Obama’s team made the deal ...
It is clear that the aggressive anti-Iranian clique within the American and Israeli governments will continue their policies towards Iran, as the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the architect of Iran’s nuclear program, has shown us. The assassination taking place right after the election of Joe Biden, who, unlike Trump, has taken a positive approach on the nuclear agreement with Iran ...
Over the last week, the public agenda in Turkey has been occupied with two hot topics. The first was the battle of words between Mike Pompeo and Mevlut Cavusoglu, the two top diplomats of the United States and Turkey, at a NATO meeting. The second was the recent decisions taken on nationwide lockdowns and the vaccination plan made with the ...
Turkey’s former Ambassador to Washington Faruk Logoglu and Retired Brigadier General, Assoc. Dr. Fahri Erenel have commented on possible US-Turkey relations and foreign policy under President Biden. Despite continued push back from current US President Donald Trump, procedures are beginning for the transition to Joe Biden’s presidency next year. President elect Biden said, “The election is over, it is time ...
Samir Amin, the brilliant Egyptian political thinker which we sadly lost in August 2018, made an important argument while describing the view of the legendary politician of the Arab world, Gamal Abdel Nasser, during one of our talks in Cairo, which I will here reiterate. He argued that it was at the Asian-African Bandung conference in the 1950s when the ...
German detention of a Turkish ship: a violation of international law and modern piracy On the morning of November 22, the German frigate Hamburg, in the course of EU-led Operation Irini, began an unannounced inspection of the Turkish Roseline-A ship that was carrying aid to Libya, 100 miles off the coast of Benghazi. They expressed suspicion of the Turkish ship’s ...
In an interview with United World International, Turkish political analyst and journalist Ramazan Bursa shed light on the assassination of Iran’s prominent nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and discussed the possible impact. Q: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, considered the “main architect” of Iran’s nuclear program, was assassinated in Tehran on Nov. 27. What was Fakhrizadeh’s strategic importance? Bursa: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was known as ...
There are not many people in the world who doubt that Israeli secret services are responsible for the assassination of the prominent Iranian physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the “father” of the Iranian nuclear program. Without openly admitting it, the Israelis did nothing to amuse such impressions, instead they “anonymously” admitted their responsibility to the New York Times. The assassination of the ...