The recent NATO summit in Ankara, Türkiye, has been debated from various angles, from increased military spending to transatlantic relations. Prof. Erdem Ilker Mutlu takes a different approach. Mutlu is an expert on international law at the Hacettepe University in Ankara. His main thesis: In order to maintain its raison d’etre, NATO exceeds institutional competences and pretends to take over ...
United World International author Dr. Mehmet Perinçek gave an interview to the Azerbaijani website Demokrat.az on the Ukraine and Iran wars, the recent NATO summit in Ankara, and the Turkic world. We have translated the interview, originally published in Azerbaijani Turkish, into English for you: Mr. Perinçek, how would you assess the final picture of the Russia-Ukraine war over the ...
By Sevim Dagdelen * At the NATO summit in Ankara on July 7 and 8, 2026, the military alliance set out to thoroughly discredit the myth of a community of values and defense. While Turkish President Erdoğan had hundreds of academics and journalists arrested beforehand to preemptively suppress protests against the military alliance’s meeting, NATO Secretary General Rutte described the ...
Last week was an eventful week in Türkiye. The NATO Summit held in Ankara topped the agenda. After the summit, claims that S-400 air defense systems Türkiye purchased from Russia would be sold to another country became a main topic of discussion. On the 10th anniversary of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt., the country saw renewed investigations into FETÖ ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer The Mekong River is once again discovering that growth and stability are not the same. It is possible for there to be factories running at full capacity, new highways being built, and new investors arriving, while simultaneously the ground beneath politics and public trust is quietly shifting. This is why 2025 felt so paradoxical: increased cooperation ...
One of the key moments of the July 7–8 NATO Summit was the meeting between Erdoğan and Trump. CAATSA sanctions, S-400, the F-35, KAAN: intertwined quartet in Türkiye-US military relations During the meeting, Trump struck a positive tone on lifting the CAATSA sanctions imposed by the US on Türkiye and on Türkiye’s possible return to the F-35 program. These two ...
By Mohammad Reza Moradi, General Director of Mehr News Agency’s Foreign Languages and International News Department, from Tehran / Iran Following the end of the forty-day war between Iran, the United States, and Israel, many believed that the region was entering a new phase in which diplomacy would replace military confrontation. Several months after the ceasefire took effect, Tehran and ...
By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China NATO’s 2026 annual summit concluded in Ankara on July 7–8. Diverging from its predecessors, the summit’s final declaration did not directly target China. Beginning with the 2019 London Declaration and continuing through the 2021 Brussels, 2022 Madrid, and 2023 Vilnius summits, NATO had consistently targeted China, defining it as the alliance’s foremost “systemic ...
How will the balance between hegemonic military power and asymmetric deterrence play out? By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist U.S. President Donald Trump’s political rhetoric—such as “mission accomplished,” “Iran has backed down,” and “victory has been achieved”—which he has been using since the early days of the war, has increasingly come into conflict with the military reality on the ground over ...
A National State Growing Stronger and Undergoing Transformation By Mehmet Enes Beşer, from Tehran / Iran Together with Patriotic Party (Vatan Partisi) Secretary-General Özgür Bursalı, we were in Tehran, the capital of Iran, from 2 to 4 July to attend the funeral of Martyr Ali Khamenei. In addition to the Patriotic Party, the Turkish delegation included senior representatives from several ...