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 ...
By Caner Karavit, writing from Hatay / Türkiye We see the first images of the disaster via the cities of İskenderun and Belen and Ceyhan to help fighting the destruction of the earthquake. We aim to free the relatives of my former students, alive or dead, from the rubble of the Altıyüz Evler neighborhood and the old bazaar in the ...
By İsmet Özçelik * President Erdoğan had made a statement before the earthquake. On March 10, he would announce his decision on candidacy. He also had declared the election date: May 14th. Then Türkiye suffered two major earthquakes. The death toll has now exceeded 40,000 and certainly will increase. Cities have almost entirely been destroyed. The question is: Can we ...
The country was hit with two very severe earthquakes last week. Therefore it was a very rough week for the Turkish public. The only agenda among the public was around the earthquake, its consequences and outcomes. Devastating earthquakes that hit southeastern Türkiye On February 6th, two catastrophic earthquakes struck southern and central Türkiye, as well as northern and western Syria. ...
Earthquake is a sudden shaking of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves through Earth’s rocks. Seismic wave, vibration generated by an earthquake, explosion, or similar energetic source and propagated within the Earth or along its surface. On 17 August 1999, a catastrophic magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Kocaeli Province of Turkiye, causing monumental damage and 18,373 deaths. Named ...