By Bessam Abu Abdullah * The presidential and parliamentary elections in Türkiye also concern the unity and sovereignty of Syria, the laws regulating the marriage, family and property laws of the Islamic, Messianic, Jewish and Druze communities, and the future of the secular and unitary state structure. They are also about whether the ethnic and sectarian separatist goals of the ...
Türkiye’s parliament was scheduled to discuss the law of approving Finland’s NATO membership on Thursday, March 30. The law has already passed the parliament’s commission for foreign relations. At the end of the debate, the parliament will vote on the law and thus approve or reject Finland’s membership. Ahead of the vote, Vatan Party Chairman Doğu Perinçek called the members ...
Türkiye’s electoral agenda continued to advance at full speed last week. AKP and CHP officials’ meetings with US counterparts and their statements on Türkiye-US relations became the top topic. Another issue was the AKP’s negotiations with the radical religious party HÜDAPAR on whether this party would join the People’s Alliance. The talks between the Nation Alliance and the HDP, known ...
The common opinion across the political spectrum is that on May 14 2023, Türkiye will hold the most important election in the history of the 100-year Republic. This is the prevailing opinion in the world too. In a country of 85 million inhabitants, although the exact number has not yet been announced, more than 60 million voters (64 million according ...
Western Eurasia is witnessing intensive diplomacy traffic. US Chairman of Chief of Staff, Mike Milley visited the – illegally deployed – US troops on Syrian soil, and the US Secretary of Defense toured West Asia. China has mediated the mutual reopening of the Iranian and Saudi Arabian embassies, while Israel faces domestic turmoil. Again Beijing has taken on the scene ...
By Ismet Özçelik, writing from Ankara / Türkiye Meral Akşener was the loser in the last meeting of the Table of Six. A meeting between Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Good Party Chairman Meral Akşener, CHP Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and CHP Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavaş preceded the meeting. The vice presidency for İmamoğlu and Yavaş was announced ...
As the elections approach, we are going through a period that makes it difficult to understand what’s going on in Turkish politics, especially after the earthquake disaster. The AKP government under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s leadership has been in power for 21 years. The government’s ‘balance policy’ and the opposition’s ‘messages’ to the West Starting out with a liberal, pro-Western and ...
Earthquakes are a reality of Türkiye, the world and nature, and unfortunately we, the Turkish people have to face this reality very often. While the devastating and painful consequences of the February 6 earthquakes centered in Kahramanmaraş are still very fresh, while it is still unknown whether the debris removal works and if it will make us prepared for a ...
At dawn on February 6 two earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.7 and 7.6 9 hours shook Türkiye, centered in the city of Kahramanmaraş. The earthquake also caused vast devastation in Syria. The two countries are lamenting the loss of their people while trying to recover. The humanitarian dimension of the issue and the aid campaigns were followed all around the ...
By Recep Erçin / Economics journalist After two major earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş and Hatay, 11 provinces of Türkiye were declared disaster areas. The provinces represent 9-10 percent of Türkiye’s gross domestic product (as of 2021), according to official data. Türkiye’s national income was 7.2 trillion Turkish Lira as of 2021. According to TUIK data, the contribution of provinces to 2021 ...
United World International author Mehmet Perinçek gave two different interviews to the Russian RIA Novosti news agency about the housing problem after the earthquake in Türkiye. We present the two interviews, dated February 14 and February 23, published in Russian, to our readers together translated into English. ————- The placement of earthquake victims in the southeast of Türkiye in university ...
By Fikret Akfırat The Munich Security Conference, one of the most prominent events of the Atlantic Alliance, was held this year on February 17-19. Around 40 leaders, ministers, diplomats and experts from more than 100 countries attended the Conference, which is now in its 59th year. Despite convening in Munich, the main objective of the meetings held since 1963 is ...