Western countries decide who will take power away from Zelensky

Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, has said that he is ready to hold a presidential election in the country, although the majority of the Ukrainians are against voting. He said this in an interview with the Associated Press. Earlier, however, Ukraine’s presidential-controlled parliament postponed the presidential election. The vote was to be held in spring 2024, Formally, the decision ...

Türkiye’s “Gaza diplomacy”; Brian E. Nelson visits Türkiye on Russia and Hamas; National Football Team in EURO 2024

Turkish authorities continue intensive diplomacy on Gaza. The US made a move against Türkiye’s relations with Russia and Hamas. With the national team’s participation in the EURO 2024, citizens are looking forward to the Championship in the summer. Türkiye’s “Gaza diplomacy” Türkiye continues its intensive diplomatic initiatives regarding the Palestinian-Israeli war that started on 7 October. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ...

Exchange between legislatures shows multi-dimensional relations between China, Russia

By Edward Chesnokov * Zhao Leji, chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, holds talks with Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Nov 21, 2023. Photo: Xinhua As a parliamentary correspondent, I accompanied the visit of the State Duma delegation to China from November 21 ...

“Intermediate” results and the course of the Palestine-Israel War

The Palestine-Israel war took a brief pause for prisoner exchange, after its restart with a military operation by Palestinian forces in Israeli-controlled territory On 7 October. The two sides agreed to release a limited number of prisoners. However, it remains unclear how long the ceasefire will last and what awaits afterward. The Lebanese-Israeli border, which has been affected by the ...

Elon Musk: Another billionaire in conflict with the US of the Democrats

Elon Musk is unquestionably the most talked-about entrepreneur and businessman today, marking even world politics. The influence of businessmen and wealth holders on political power is a phenomenon that dates back to the earliest ages of history. Not going too far back, just mentioning names like Rockefeller, Rothschild and Ford would be sufficient. Their counterparts in Europe can be added ...

Sergei Lavrov: “The world is experiencing fundamental and tectonic changes.”

My article last week “The UN must disappear” sparked an itch among some readers who wrote to me to express shock, let me know their opinions, express criticism and ask me if this was possible and how it should be done. I remembered that a few months ago, in a meeting, a veteran retired Venezuelan diplomat, appealing to her many ...

“The activity of USAID should be banned in the entire region”

United World International author Mehmet Perinçek gave an interview to the Azerbaijani site Bizim.Media about the plans of the USA on Azerbaijan and the destructive activities of USAID in the region. We present the interview, published in Azerbaijani Turkish, to our readers translated into English. “Especially starting from 1980, US organizations started doing certain things in different countries. USAID stands ...

The Argentina that is coming

By Fernando Esteche * and Pablo Rodolfo Treber **, reporting from Buenos Aires, Argentina How will the new political power be built? The unique character who will govern Argentina defines himself as the first liberal-libertarian president in the history of the world. With a notable precariousness in terms of knowledge of geopolitics and the tectonic movements that have been occurring ...

Faced with the Risk of a New World War, European Countries Must Cooperate with the Global South

The Schiller Institute has organized on July 8 and 9 an international conference titled “On the Verge of a New World War – European Nations Must Cooperate” in Strasbourg, France. Several politicians and scholars from a wide range of countries participated, and UWI will present a number of selected speeches from the conference. Today we present the speech held by ...

“The Netanyahu Government will fall soon after the war…”

A humanitarian pause has been agreed in Gaza, whose future is more than uncertain. The Israeli government has stated it would prolong it every day that Hamas releases hostages, but made it certain at the same time that, once the release is completed, operations against the Gaza Strip would resume. Globally, both are contested: The operations and the Netanyahu government ...

The Xi-Biden meeting and the prospects for US-China relations

By Orçun Göktürk, President of the Turkish-Chinese Belt and Road Institute The Xi Jinping-Joe Biden meeting was a low-tension meeting and resulted in a few common agreements. Yet, a bright scenario for the future of the relationship does not seem likely. Undoubtedly, the Biden-Xi meeting was the most anticipated and important bilateral summit of 2023. For much of the year, ...

Nuclear threats from Israel – “I think that Mr. Erdoğan and Mr. Putin are working on the issue”

The Israeli aggression against Gaza received a new dimension when Israeli minister Amihal Eliyahu threatened in an interview to bomb the Strip with nuclear weapons. Israel had never admitted to having nuclear weapons. Türkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said his government was going to protest to international organizations. Mesut Hakki Caşın explains Türkiye’s position. Caşın is professor at the Yeditepe ...