Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on June 8-9. This visit was for the first time in seven years. Hakkı Erman Ergincan, Chairman of Türkiye-Korea Friendship Association, answered our question in an interview regarding Xi’s visit and the relations between the two countries. Xi Jinping paid an official visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ...

Techo International Airport is the kind of project Cambodia doesn’t get to build twice. A gateway of this kind, in this day and age, has the potential to change the way the country relates to the region, the way tourism is developed, and the way trade logistics are handled. In fact, the first phase is capable of serving 13 million ...

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 the safest places in society? The Ministry of National Education has ...

“Trump is ready for a deal…” It’s perhaps the phrase we’ve heard most often recently regarding the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Iran. “Trump is good, but his team is bad…” With the start of Trump’s second term, a narrative has been circulated across global media portraying a “good” Trump surrounded by a “bad” inner circle. Trump was the one ...

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 of the war of liberation. It is today celebrated as ...

Germany’s Baden-Württemberg Minister-President Cem Özdemir, who is of Turkish descent (and previously served as Germany’s Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture between 2021 and 2025, and briefly as Federal Minister of Education and Research), stated in a video posted on his X account on June 2 that he used the term “genocide” (Völkermord) to describe the historical events of 1915 ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer The rise of China up the technological ladder—from mass production at cheap costs to cutting-edge domains such as artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, semiconductors, and renewable energy—is perhaps one of the biggest structural revolutions in global economics. It is happening in conjunction, not in tandem. To Southeast Asian economies deeply embedded in regional and international supply chains, ...

Editorial note: The reported conference was conducted before the recent restart of attacks in the war – UWI. The ceasefire between Iran and the US remains in place for now, but it is still highly fragile. How does Iran view the negotiations? What is it hoping to achieve? What is it prepared to accept, and what are its red lines? ...

By Dure Akram, from Lahore / Pakistan From the floor of the United Nations Security Council on June 8, 2026, Pakistan’s permanent representative issued an extraordinary warning: “Time for corrective action is rapidly running out.” Asim Iftikhar Ahmad told the Council that Islamabad would not remain silent if armed groups based in Afghanistan continued to target Pakistani civilians and security ...

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 afford to treat ...

By Aliakbar Taheri – Representative of Coalition for Resistance Organization 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 of the war of liberation. It is today celebrated as an official ...

By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China NATO will hold its annual summit in Ankara next month. Founded during the Cold War era to counter the Soviet Bloc, the organization aimed to fight communism externally and to control European countries internally by the USA. Despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union (even though its so-called reason for existence disappeared), it ...