By Mehmet Enes Beşer In the heightening United States–China trade war, global focus has shifted primarily to tariff schedules, supply chains shattered, and factories rebalanced. Beyond overt economic impact, though, lies a more sophisticated strategic actor edging its way into the openings. Sanctioned by the West, diplomatically isolated but globally ambitious, Russia is more than a disinterested bystander. It is ...

By Serdar Ali Çavuşoğlu Introduction: The geostrategic weight of the “new oil” and the birth of the “rare earths era” Human history has evolved according to the raw materials that define the pinnacle of technological advancement: the Stone Age, the Copper and Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Steel and Coal Age, the Silicon Age… Each era established its own ...

Last week in Türkiye, the agenda was as busy as ever. The visit of the Turkish delegation, headed by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, to Syria was at the top of the agenda. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the start of the domestic aircraft carrier construction process at a ceremony he attended at the Istanbul Shipyard Command. And the drug crackdown ...

­As if by the whims of life and unplanned adjustments of history, at the very moment that Trump was threatening Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Marco Rubio was making clear his conviction that the Western Hemisphere belongs to Washington by bringing the Monroe Doctrine and its Trump corollary into vogue for the 21st century, the government of the ...

The sidelining of hardliners in Zelenskyy’s government over corruption allegations, US Secretary of State Rubio’s refusal to attend the NATO summit, corruption probes against the figures in Brussels who are pro-war against Russia, the distance put between NATO and Europe in the US 2025 National Strategy Document; and German Chancellor Merz’s statement that “Pax Americana has come to an end”…Simultaneously ...

Over the past year, the Lebanese government has initiated a series of political, diplomatic, and strategic measures that, taken together, signify a fundamental shift in the country’s regional orientation. These measures—encompassing a broad range of domestic pressures on Hezbollah, the deterioration of relations with Iran, rapprochement with Gulf and Western powers, and the formation of new alliances in the Eastern ...

By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China A new bill submitted to Congress in the US clearly demonstrates the stage Washington’s containment strategy against China in the Pacific has reached. According to the proposal, the US will negotiate new free trade agreements with Pacific Island countries; it will eliminate tariffs on certain products and deepen economic relations. The rationale is ...

By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The spectacle staged by Trump in Egypt approximately two months ago and presented as the ‘peace of the century’ propaganda never made a realistic contribution to Israel’s military objectives in Gaza. Furthermore, despite the terms of the agreement, the people of Gaza have continued to be deprived of humanitarian aid over the past two months, ...

By Islam Farag, from Cairo / Egypt The announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approving a $35 billion gas export deal to Egypt from the Leviathan natural gas field, located in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Haifa, came as a shock to many who do not closely follow Egyptian-Israeli relations. Perhaps the shock of these observers is ...

By Dure Akram Germany’s decision to transfer 535 Afghan nationals stranded in Pakistan this winter was presented as an administrative exercise, a clearing of unfinished business inherited from a previous government. In reality, it offered a revealing measure of how international refugee policy has been reshaped since the Taliban returned to Kabul in August 2021. Protection has not been withdrawn ...

By Dr. Halim Gençoğlu Sino-Ottoman relations, while often perceived as marginal due to geographical distance and the absence of sustained formal diplomacy, in fact rest upon a much deeper historical background that extends to the early interactions between the Turkic–Islamic world and China through the Silk Road, Muslim trade networks, and religious exchanges dating back to the medieval period. Although ...

Dr. Mehmet Perinçek, gave a speech on December 16, 2025, at a round table discussion titled “The Spiritual Aspects of Cooperation in Greater Eurasia,” organized by the ruling United Russia Party in Moscow. The session was chaired by Andrei Klimov, head of the party’s International Relations Bureau. Other participants included Aleksey Gromyko, grandson of Andrey Gromyko, who served as the ...