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 ...
Türkiye is going through the biggest disaster in the history of the Republic. Thousands of us have lost our lives; we are injured and still waiting to be rescued under the rubble. Unplanned settlement, lack of infrastructure, institutions incapable of quickly making decisions and organizing… And the political leaderships, both in power and opposition, incapable of bringing society together… But ...
By Fikret Akfırat On January 23-27, the US and Israeli militaries conducted their largest ever joint military exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean. The exercise, named “Juniper Oak 23”, was announced to be the first in a series of exercises to be conducted in 2023. US Department of Defense chief spokesperson Patrick Ryder said the exercise “enhances our ability to respond ...
The public agenda was quite intense in Türkiye last week. The meeting between the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and his American counterpart Antony Blinken was at the top of the public agenda. Another topic was the rising tensions with Sweden, which was about the protests against the President Erdoğan, and then with the disrespectful attack on the Muslim holy ...
In Sweden, a person named Rasmus Paludan burned the Holy Quran in front of the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm under police surveillance. The Swedish government described the incident as a manifestation of freedom of expression. The goal: Clash of civilizations In many parts of the Middle East, especially in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has set houses, shops and churches belonging ...
Türkiye-Sweden relations came to the fore again after PKK members hanged President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s puppet in an anti-Türkiye demonstration held in Stockholm. Russia Today (RT) asked political scientist and United World International author Onur Sinan Guzaltan about Türkiye’s ongoing objections to Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership. Below is the interviews transcription. To watch the entire interview video follow this ...
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters…” These words written by Antoino Gramsci almost a century ago, are still valid. The signs of the death of the old world have never been so strong and the birth labor of the new world is putting humanity into a controversial ...
The former US security advisor John Bolton made a striking comment on Türkiye about a week ago. He said “Unfortunately, this includes Türkiye, whose NATO membership should be in doubt in 2023 if [Turkish] President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – probably through fraud – will be re-elected in the elections scheduled for June.” Political scientist and United World International author Onur ...
The political axes of the world are changing as a result of the economic rise of the Eastern nations. The world is Easternizing. The western-centered order is declining. And while the shifts in axes are causing new controversies in the global sense, they also result in tectonic bursts. The fault lines are now active… “Seek knowledge even if you have ...