Attempts to encircle Turkey from North Africa, the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean are gaining more momentum. It is useful to take a look at the events that have been taking place in Libya, Tunisia, Lebanon, and Egypt, in order to see the full picture. FRENCH INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL IN LIBYA In Libya, where tensions have recently been at a ...
The 2020 Democratic National Convention opened on Monday, August 17 in Milwaukee. Within 4 days, the Democratic Party must formally elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as its candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. According to the opinion polls, the former Vice President is still ahead of the incumbent President Donald Trump, meaning that the probability ...
Last week, two issues have been at the top of the public agenda in Turkey: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s announcement of negotiations with Egypt at the level of intelligence agencies, and US Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s statements about Turkish internal affairs. TURKEY AND EGYPT ARE IN CONTACT President Erdogan, during his speech to the press last Friday, said the following ...
The US is regressing as a geopolitical powerhouse. The country is facing its most difficult days in recent history, with the 2020 elections looming. The US economy has shrunk by 34% in the second quarter of this year due to the COVID-19 and some other factors: an all-time record. A wave of riots triggered by the murder of black American ...
By Prof. Dr. Mehmet Seyfettin Erol After US President Donald Trump announced on August 13 that Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had reached an agreement to “completely normalize their relations”, all eyes turned to the Arab-Israeli issue and Palestine once again. This development, which initially ignored Palestine altogether, appeared as a new rupture with the Gulf states in ...
Donald Trump’s threat to ban Tik Tok has made international headlines. Tik Tok is a Chinese social network that has been growing rapidly around the world, especially in 2020 during the early days of the pandemic. President Trump recently announced that he was giving the social media site’s Chinese parent company until September 15 to sell Tik Tok or it ...
The latest report of the Rand Corporation expresses clearly who the United States supports and opposes in Turkey. The Greater Middle East Project was announced clearly with its own “map”, explaining which countries would change their borders. Such “maps” aim to reshape political polarization with the tools of “threats” and “rewards”, whether these maps show physical or human “geographies”. The ...
BY ALİ RIZA TAŞDELEN “It is unacceptable that people belonging to the Uyghur minority are imprisoned in concentration camps,” Jean Yves Le Drian said at the French National Assembly last Tuesday. Le Drian, the French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, parroted the lies of US imperialism as a member of parliament: “Concentration camps for Uyghurs, custody, disappearances, forced labor, ...
Relations between Washington and Beijing continue to deteriorate. The last week was marked by two important events: first, Chinese diplomats left the Consulate General of China in Houston, which was closed at the request of the United States. On July 21, the United States authorities demanded that the consulate be closed, claiming that it had been used by Chinese hackers ...
Regarding the reduction in the spread of the coronavirus, the first question in the United States has been the impact of the virus on the 2020 presidential election, and to what extent the remnants of Covid19 will be the cause of Trump’s defeat or victory. It is clear that the coronavirus has already strongly influenced the 2020 election and even ...