By Hasan Ünal* * Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations of Maltepe University. This text was first published by Baku Dialogues in the edition Winter 2022. As of this writing, tensions between Russia and Ukraine appeared to continue unabated, despite the Putin‑Biden online meeting and the exchange of several messages between Washington and Moscow aimed at ...
The fifth President of Ukraine (2014-2019) Petro Poroshenko is being charged with treason and the transfer of money to terrorist groups. The former President is accused of importing coal from the territories, which are under control of the pro-Russian seperatist groups (the occupied part of the Donbas region of Ukraine, where there are large cool reserves and mines). However, many ...
By Ismail Hakki Pekin The European Union (EU), the United States, the NATO and the Chairperson-in office the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) held a quadripartite coordination meeting concerning the tensions along the Russian-Ukrainian border. The meeting was the first of its kind in history. NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg evaluated the meeting as a “Strong signal ...
By Mehmet Kıvanç The Ukrainian Crisis is heating up. As a NATO member, a Black Sea coastal country and with good relations to Ukraine and Russia, Turkey’s position in the crisis deems great importance. As United World International, we have asked Turkish experts on their comments on the crisis and the position Turkey should take. Retired Ambassador Uluç Özülker, retired ...
The US-supported insurgency in Kazakhstan and the tensions along the Ukrainian-Russian line were discussed in Turkey’s Ulusal Kanal TV channel’s program “News Center”. Retired Lieutenant-General İsmail Hakkı Pekin, Gaziantep University academic Dr. Ali Fuat Gökçe, Vatan Party’s Deputy Chairman Serdar Üsküplü, visiting Professor at the Moscow State University Dr. Mehmet Perinçek and the journalist Deniz Berktay made important statements on ...
For almost eight years now, Ukraine has remained the greatest threat to security and peace in Europe. The internal instability of this country, which is being torn apart between the oligarchs and western capital, is a ticking time bomb. Without disarmament, there can be no meaningful reconfiguration of the international order, and not only in this region of the world. ...
Once again, Ukraine has become the focus of the world public opinion. Since the beginning of November of last year, the US media has been warning of an immediate Russian intervention in Ukraine. At the beginning of November, the Washington Post published an article with photos from satellites showing the build up of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border. Soon ...
The tensions between the U.S. and Russia over the Ukraine are rising. Western approaches to enlarge the NATO alliance towards eastern Europe are continuing, strongly opposed by Russia. While the Presidents of both countries are holding talks on phone over the crisis, the influential Chinese newspaper Glovbal Times published an editorial. The article reflects the Chinese view on the Ukraine ...
International politics is getting a new definition for an act of aggression: Not using a country a transit space for gas transfers and consequently not paying the according fees. The newly elected Foreign Minister of Germany, Annalena Baerbock presented the argumentation in a recent interview to the German TV channel ZDF. Asked about the operation of the Nord Stream 2 ...
On December 11, the Turkish TV channel Ulusal Kanal dedicated a tv program to the Ukrainian crisis and the position of Turkey, where the tensions around the Ukraine and Russia and their implications for the region were discussed. Participants of the programm were, Ret. Lieutenant-General Ismail Hakkı Pekin, former Head of Military Intelligence at the Turkish Armed Forces’ Chief of ...
United World International expert Onur Sinan Güzaltan gave an interview to Russian news outlet ukraine.ru on Turkish-Russian relations. Below we present the interview as published by ukraine.ru, the original text can be read here. Subtitles were set by UWI. “Turkey and Russia, in cooperation with other countries in the region, have to revise the concept of Eurasia. It will be ...
The Ukraine: The USA is responsible of the escalation, and must stop it before provoking a world war
Back in 1992, when I was a correspondent in Moscow, the French review Sous le Drapeau du Socialisme asked me for an article on developments in Russia and the – then disintegrating – Soviet Union. I wrote it, also publishing a variant in the Greek magazine Tetradia under the title “The global crisis in the former Soviet Union and the ...