The Myth of NATO’s Umbrella By Mehmet Enes Beşer For decades, NATO has provided Türkiye with a type of strategic insurance by offering it its membership. The reasoning behind it is simple: Türkiye is located in a dangerous neighborhood, which is why it requires the protection of the strongest possible alliance. From this point of view, joining NATO makes sense ...
A historic and geopolitical perspective By Halil Özsaraç – Retired naval staff colonel, naval historian First published in the March 2022 issue of Teori magazine from Türkiye in Turkish, translated into English by UWI I don’t know whether children still fall for such simple tricks. In the past, children who wouldn’t behave were often frightened into obedience by an “imaginary ...
Main political events in Türkiye in the last week. Last week, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan’s surprise visit to Russia topped the agenda. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s meeting with Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew was another widely discussed development. Meanwhile, preparations for the NATO Summit to be held on 7-8 July in Ankara, continued at full speed. Foreign Minister’s visit to Moscow ...
Interview to Turkish TV Channel Ulusal Kanal On 7–9 July, Ankara will host the NATO Summit. In the run-up to the summit, UWI author, historian and political scientist Associate Professor Mehmet Perinçek assessed Türkiye’s multi-layered developments. On 6 June, a Turkish fishing vessel was sunk after being attacked off the coast of Sevastopol in Crimea. One Turkish citizen lost his ...
Speech of an Aybars Bilgicier, Chairman of the Vanguard Youth at the WAYU congress in Istanbul. By Can Aybars Bilgicier, Chairman of the Vanguard Youth (The youth wing of the Vatan Party from Türkiye) May 19th, 1919, is the date Mustafa Kemal Atatürk arrived in the northern Turkish city of Samsun to start the armed struggle against the imperialist occupation ...
Posted by by United World International 7 Min Read June 23, 2026 The Vatan Party held a press conference on June 20 in front of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Fener in Istanbul. The statement was delivered by Istanbul Provincial Chairman İbrahim Okan Özkan. In his statement, Özkan said that the government had failed to respond effectively to Ukraine’s attacks ...
Main political events in Türkiye in the last week. Last week in Türkiye, the visit of Venezuela’s leader Delcy Rodríguez to Istanbul and her meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was the top in the national agenda. Another topic of the week was the developments within the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) following the ruling of “absolute nullity”. Foreign ...
Interview with Kadem Özbay, President of the trade union Egitim İş. The fatal shooting of a school principal in Istanbul, attacks on teachers in Şanlıurfa and Kahramanmaraş, and a growing number of incidents involving threats, physical violence and intimidation in educational institutions have reignited a national debate in Türkiye: Why is violence increasingly reaching schools, institutions traditionally regarded as among ...
Opening speech held on the international WAYU congress in Istanbul. By Kayahan Çetin – Chairman of the Youth Union of Türkiye (TGB) May 19th, 1919 is the date Mustafa Kemal Atatürk arrived in the northern Turkish city of Samsun to start the armed struggle against the imperialist occupation of Türkiye and its collaborators. The date is considered as the beginning ...
Beyond “Asia Pivot” By Mehmet Enes Beşer Türkiye’s engagement with ASEAN is too often treated as a diplomatic side quest—interesting, occasionally useful, but ultimately peripheral to the “real” arenas of power politics. That framing is outdated. In a world where tariff wars, industrial policy, sanctions, and geopolitical rivalry are reshaping markets faster than ministries can rewrite talking points, Türkiye cannot ...