US President Donald Trump recently announced his visit to India. The Indian authorities intend to welcome their guest at the highest levels in demonstration of the strong friendship between the two countries, as well as the personal friendship between Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In India, Trump is a very popular figure. As a rule, his fans are ...
In late December, Chinese authorities reported an outbreak of a type of pneumonia of unknown origin in the city of Wuhan. The causative agent of the disease was a new variation of the coronavirus. On February 11, 2020, the World Health Organization named the disease COVID-19. The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) then described the virus as “severe ...
An emergency meeting of European powers took place in Munich, Germany, on September 29–30, 1938, and an agreement was quickly reached– on Hitler’s terms. Mechanisms of dialogue have often opened the door to radically new formations in Europe, for better or worse. Four decades later, the Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, triggered the Cold ...
An annual security conference was held in Munich from February 14 to 16. This international forum, which takes place every year in the capital of Bavaria, was originally conceived as a joint event between NATO and the conservative Christian Social Union. Today it is more informal, but the agenda and high level list of participants demonstrates that the problems of ...
The Idlib crisis in Syria The martyrdom of 13 Turkish soldiers in two separate strikes by the Syrian Arab Army has increased political and the military tension between Turkey and Syria, and Russia as well. The dialogue between Turkey, Syria and Russia alongside the involvement of US, whose special envoy for Syria James Jeffrey recently visited Ankara, has brought to ...
73 years after the UN resolution 181 on the partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jewish settlers, the Palestinian question seems to be facing two paradoxical fates, resolution, or movement into a new bloody turmoil. The so called “Deal of the Century” presented by US President Donald Trump purports to be a solution to the question of coexistence. The solution ...
Recent events in Guinea may indicate that the US is planning another coup d’état in order to advance its economic interests. On February 7, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed concern over the situation in the African country after 81-year-old President Alpha Condé announced a possible constitutional referendum. Condé’s mandate ends in December, but the outcome of the referendum ...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte decided to cancel the 1998 agreement with the United States this week, which had granted thousands of US troops the right to legally reside in the country. The decision to terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement with the United States (VFA) was announced on Tuesday February 11 by his spokesman Salvador Panelo. “The president will not entertain ...
There has not been a week in the recent months without reports, statements, decisions or condemnations against Turkey’s Mediterranean policies, from the United States, the EU and the Arab world. A large portion of the work at the Foreign Ministry, especially for the Spokesman, is rushed through the answers to these baseless, untheorized, unreasoned and unfair explanations. Next, in the ...
Last week, the RAND Company, which has a budget of $350 million and is supported by the US government and the CIA, released a report on Turkey. The 243-page report, entitled “Turkey’s Nationalist Course: Implications for the US-Turkish Strategic Partnership and the US Army” was compiled by 10 different authors, including a former Naval Officer Stephen Larrabee. Larrabee is an ...