What will happen in Syria now?
Onur Sinan Güzaltan
April 24, 2025
The US and Israel have won the first act of the war in Syria. As a result of the civil war they provoked in 2011, they succeeded in toppling the
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Political expert, geopolitical analyst, journalist (Turkey)
Antalya Diplomacy Forum; High-level diplomatic meetings; Political tension continues after the arrest of Imamoğlu
Onur Sinan Güzaltan
April 23, 2025
The agenda in Türkiye has heated up again as temperatures. One of the major topics was the Antalya Diplomacy Forum. Also, last week saw several critical meetings in foreign policy.
Turks and the FPÖ in the Vienna elections
Onur Sinan Güzaltan
April 21, 2025
By Kadim Ülker, From Vienna / Austria On April 27, 2025, local elections will be held in Vienna to determine the representatives who will form the state government. Turks are
“The spring of hope, the winter of despair”: Age of uncertainties
Onur Sinan Güzaltan
April 18, 2025
The world keeps revolving, Swiftly, relentlessly. And it changes… A brief glance at the past month’s headlines reveals the weight of change and uncertainty. 1. Trump’s new tariffs President Trump
CHP accuses Erdoğan of being leader of a “junta”; Opposition calls for a one-day general boycott; Foreign Minister comments on “non-conflict mechanism” with Israel
Onur Sinan Güzaltan
April 15, 2025
The arrest of Istanbul Mayor and Republican People’s Party (CHP) presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu has further deepened political polarization in Türkiye. CHP leader Özgür Özel’s statements targeting President Erdoğan topped
US-Iran talks and Iran’s fear of the “Libya Model”
Onur Sinan Güzaltan
April 14, 2025
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist / Author After a long period of threatening rhetoric and new arms transfers to Israel, Donald Trump surprisingly announced last week that the United States
Coalition talks, armaments and Germany’s direction
Onur Sinan Güzaltan
April 12, 2025
By Ali Mercan, Frankfurt / Germany The coalition talks between the Christian Union (CDU-CSU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) entered an intense phase during the second week of April.
Demonstrations in Türkiye: “Erdoğan and Imamoğlu want to keep Türkiye in the Atlantic world”
Onur Sinan Güzaltan
April 1, 2025
UWI author, political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan was guest to Russia Today’s live broadcast. Güzaltan answered the questions on ongoing demonstrations in Türkiye. Our correspondents say that this is a
Which Europe between the US and Russia?
Onur Sinan Güzaltan
March 27, 2025
Donald Trump’s efforts to strike a deal with Russia and his parallel policies of distancing himself from the current governments in Europe have accelerated the search for a new direction
Istanbul Mayor Imamoğlu arrested
Onur Sinan Güzaltan
March 26, 2025
Last Week’s hot topic in was the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu, who is widely expected to be the presidential candidate of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP)
From Brussels to Riyadh, via Munich: Eight days that shook the world (II and final)
Onur Sinan Güzaltan
March 7, 2025
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein Last week we made a descriptive observation of international events, but making an analysis of them is a bit more complex. It seems to me that
Disintegration of the “invincible” Western bloc and multipolarity
Onur Sinan Güzaltan
March 6, 2025
UWI writer and political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan shared his views with Sputnik Türkçe on the impact of Trump’s policies on the US-EU alliance and its consequences for the Ukraine