Main political events in Türkiye in the last week. Last week, the main agenda in Türkiye was the developments in Syria. Politicians, security officials and journalists are discussing moment by moment the developments and Türkiye’s position. Also, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. During the meeting, the wars in Ukraine and Palestine were discussed. Minister ...
Heading of Turkish foreign policy in the context of increasing multipolarity. The Turkish political scientist Umur Tugay Yücel published recently a book titled “The decline of US power and rising new powers”. Herein, he discusses the new global balance of power. According to Yücel, the US power is in decline, being replaced by other nations. This opens a new era ...
A look at the confrontation between Türkiye and NATO from Iraq to Syria, from the Black Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean. We conducted an interview with Turkish journalist Ceyhun Bozkurt on Türkiye-US relations, Türkiye’s position in NATO and Türkiye’s alternatives to the alliance.In order to evaluate these properly, we looked at the situation in a wide geography from Iraq to ...
The US and NATO may instigate a major conflict. Türkiye must stay out of it. Ahmet Süha Umar, retired Turkish ambassador, wrote a column on NATO’s declaration following the summit in Washington. Based also on his own experiences, Umar observes how NATO turned out to be an organization of aggression after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Umar discusses some ...
By Abbas Djuma The chairman of Türkiye’s Vatan Party speaks about the influence of the US, Palestine, and Israel, and the future of NATO When I told some of my colleagues and experts on Türkiye that I was going to Istanbul to visit the chairman of Türkiye’s Patriotic Party (Vatan Partisi), Doğu Perinçek, the reactions were mixed. They ranged from ...
The Russian political party “United Russia” held the first “For the Freedom of Nations” International Forum of Supporters of the Struggle Against Modern Practices of Neocolonialism on 16-17 February 2024 in Moscow. It brought together over 400 participants from more than 55 countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe and the CIS. United World International author and ...
The Turkish parliament gave its approval to Sweden’s NATO membership on 23 January. This approval has been a precondition for the US to allow the sale of the 40 F-16 fighter jets to Türkiye. On 26 January, the US government approved the sale. But the process is not yet finalized. There seems to be a dispute between the US and ...
Since the US-backed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has shifted its focus towards Eastern countries. In this period, cooperation in energy, economic, political, and even military fields has been developed with countries in the region, primarily Russia and Iran. However, the AKP government has failed to develop an economic model alternative US-centered ...
UWI author, Doctor of Historical Sciences, representative of the Vatan (Patriotic) Party Mehmet Perinçek, in an interview with Russian NEWS.ru, called Ankara’s agreement to Sweden’s entry into NATO “a betrayal of the Turkish people” due to serious disagreements and conflicts with NATO. Among such problems, he named the Alliance’s position towards the PKK and the Palestinian issue. “The expansion of ...
Last week in Türkiye, 12 soldiers were martyred as a result of attacks by the PKK terrorist organization. In response to the incident, there came statements from political parties as public outrage grew. Another topic under discussion was the initial approval in the Parliament for Sweden’s NATO membership. PKK attacks on Turkish Armed Forces base in Northern Iraq On December ...