A Cloaked Attack on Türkiye? By Ceren Ceviz The recent proposal by U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham to impose secondary tariffs of up to 500% on countries importing Russian energy has caused an uproar in global diplomatic and economic circles. But nowhere is the backlash more intense — and perhaps more justified — than in Türkiye. While framed as a broad ...
This war is just one of the many front lines. Lasting peace seems only possible when the old order comes to a final end. By Onur Sinan Güzaltan February 24, 2022… More than three years have passed since Russia launched its military operations in Ukraine. During this time, the world has changed irreversibly. The world has changed irreversibly Ukraine has ...
Opportunities for Türkiye to act as it struggles to break free from Western hegemony. We asked Adnan Akfırat, Chairman of the Turkish-Chinese Business Development and Friendship Association, two questions about the two recent developments that made the headlines of the world media. The EU’s exclusion from the US-Russia talks, and the “Two Sessions”, known as the most important political event of the ...
ON US-Russia talks, Ukraine’s acts and Türkiye’s position. By Adnan Türkkan Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Special Representative for Kyiv, answered questions from Adnan Türkkan, the Ankara Representative of Ulusal Kanal of Türkiye. In the interview at the Russian House in Ankara, Türkkan asked Miroshnik about key issues concerning the war in Ukraine, the latest developments regarding peace efforts, ...
The international system is being restructured in a speed never seen before in the last 80 years. By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein International events have taken an extraordinarily fast pace. I have consulted with some colleagues, and we have concluded that it is becoming difficult to follow the movement of events that are shaking, transforming and restructuring the international system at ...
Overall, a new civilization is being born in the world. By Onur Sinan Güzaltan Trump is moving forward at full speed. A lot is changing. It has almost been confirmed that negotiations will begin to end the war in Ukraine. What’s striking is that Europe has been completely excluded from the process. UWI author and political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan ...
Repercussions of the upcoming meeting of Trump and Putin for the “old continent” and beyond. A meeting between Trump and Putin is approaching. However, Europe, which has played a leading role alongside the U.S. in the Ukraine war, is completely excluded from the process. UWI author, historian and political scientist Associate Professor Mehmet Perinçek evaluated the current situation reveals about ...
Possible consequences for Europe, the Middle East and China. By Onur Sinan Güzaltan Back in October 2022, I had started writing under the title “Will there be a new Yalta in the end?”, but I didn’t finish it. These days, with Trump’s return to the presidency, the possibility of an agreement between the United States and Russia, particularly regarding Ukraine, ...
Sports activities can build very much needed bridges in today’s world. By Erkin Feyyaz Eşli “O Sport, You Are Peace” is a very popular phrase in Russia, although it belongs to the founder of the modern Olympic Games, the French Baron Pierre de Coubertin. In Russia, this expression became entrenched after the release of the film of the same name ...
Background of the conflicts around the Arctic Ocean. By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein Until recently, little was known, and even less was said about the Arctic Ocean. It was associated with a compact and impregnable mass of ice near the North Pole, where peaceful people lived their lives in communion with nature and scientists from all over the world who carried ...