By Aykut Diş The warnings of Russian president Vladimir Putin regarding the TurkStream and Blue Stream pipelines during the International Economic Forum meeting have become a hot topic. Putin said to the heads of international news agencies that Ukraine sees the natural gas pipelines connecting Russia to Türkiye as “targets”. Russian President also called on the journalists, saying “Please inform ...
Doğu Perinçek, Vatan Party Chairman, held a press conference on 14 May 2024 and evaluated the Turkish government’s ‘Savings and Efficiency Package in the Public Sector’. Perinçek also announced Vatan Party’s ‘Radical Solutions for Savings and Investment’. Perinçek stated the following: What is savings? Savings are the values that a country allocates to investment from its total production in ...
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, along with other officials, passed away in the helicopter crash in northwestern Iran on 19th May. UWI author, historian and political scientist Mehmet Perinçek shared his evaluation on the incident in a broader regional and international perspective. Could you give your overall view on the helicopter crash? A few days before ...
Türkiye witnessed two significant judicial decisions last week. PKK terrorist organization-affiliated Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) executives, including former chairman Selahattin Demirtaş, were heavily sentenced to imprisonment. The other judicial decision was the release of the generals arrested in connection with the “28 February Coup Case” after more than 3 years of detention. Another important event of the last week was ...
In 2023, the People’s Republic of China purchased 91% of the oil produced by Iran. Anxious with that, US President Biden is working on passing a law to impose sanctions on China for its oil purchases from Iran. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Iran has transformed into a construction site. What we see is an extraordinary development in the economy. In ...
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 ...
On 5 April 2024, in Kaliningrad, Russian Federation, a round table was held in connection with the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Immanuel Kant. Its title: “On the importance of the principles of peaceful coexistence of states with different political systems to ensure genuine peace and sustainable security in the 21st century. Immanuel Kant’s legacy”. The ...
By Ismet Özçelik The results of the March 31 local elections have shaken things up within the Justice and Development Party (AKP). President Erdoğan’s criticism of the party’s senior levels during the Central Executive Board meeting, and the subsequent leaks to the press, are almost unprecedented. Here, Erdoğan is clearly addressing the grassroots of the Party. Following the defeat in ...
The US and Western European press reported that the election results were a major blow to Erdoğan. It was stated that the Turkish people punished Erdoğan for the economy and that the elections had a dimension that affected not only the local governments but also the national administration. Imamoğlu’s victory in Istanbul paved the way for him to rival Erdoğan ...
On the 26th and 27th of February, the Russian Federation hosted over 500 participants from more than 130 countries in Moscow to challenge Western hegemony in the Second Congress of the International Russophile Movement (MIR). UWI documents in the following days some speeches delivered in the congress. Today we publish the presentation of Ali Murat Özdemir, professor at the Faculty ...
Last week, there were three issues on Türkiye’s agenda: Statements signaling a military operation against terrorist organization in northern Iraq, an unstoppable rise in foreign exchange rates and the meeting between President Erdoğan and his Ukrainian counterpart Zelensky. Statements indicating a military operation into Northern Iraq The first message regarding a large-scale military operation targeting PKK targets in northern Iraq ...
On the 26th and 27th of February, the Russian Federation hosted over 500 participants from more than 130 countries in Moscow to challenge Western hegemony in the Second Congress of the International Russophile Movement (MIR). UWI documents in the following days the speeches given by Turkish delegates in the Congress. Today we start with the message delivered by Ethem Sancak, ...