By Mehmet Enes Beşer Basking in the sunshine, increasing electric demand, and international pressure building to transition to cleaner energy, ASEAN is well-placed to emerge as a solar power leader. On Philippine rooftops, on rolling central Vietnamese plains, solar photovoltaics (PV) is one of the most promising green growth paths forward. But with this dormant potential, solar power remains underexploited ...

Cem Gürdeniz, a retired Rear Admiral of the Turkish Navy and one of the coiners of the term “Blue Homeland” (Mavi Vatan) shared his views on the developments in the Strait of Hormuz on the social platform X. We present Gürdeniz’s analysis, translated into English. — A massive maritime traffic crisis has paralyzed the Strait of Hormuz. Current shipping data ...

On February 28, the US and Israel launched an assault on Iran. The whole world’s gaze is on Iran. Iran has become the number one agenda also in Europe. While the European Union and its leading member states have backed the assault on Iran, a wide array of parties, leaders, and public intellectuals across the continent have stood by Iran ...

By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist / Writer According to many experts, February 28 will take its place in the near future as the starting date of World War III. However, I have repeatedly stated in my World Of Türkiye analyses that World War III has in fact been ongoing for quite some time. Indeed, while the world has already experienced ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer The global order has experienced rapid geopolitical and economic changes over recent decades. The post-World War II international order dominated by the Western world by institutions such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank is also challenged to a larger extent by a shifting world order. The third world is ...

Very strange and highly contradictory statements have so far been issued by the Cypriot, Greek, and British authorities regarding the drones and missiles from Iran, because of which Greek and other NATO forces rushed—or are rushing—to the island. 1. The British Secretary of State for Defense, John Healey, announced on Sunday morning that two Iranian missiles were launched toward Cyprus ...

By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China More than a week has passed since the renewed attacks by the US and Israel against Iran and the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. During this period, Iran targeted almost all US bases in West Asia and carried out successful retaliations against Tel Aviv. The operations launched by Trump with the statement, ...

The war that began on February 28 with US/Israeli airstrikes on Iranian cities continues. The boundaries of the war, both in terms of time and geography, remain unclear. It is likely to prolong and spread… The conclusions from the first act; 1. The US/Israel failed to achieve their strategic objectives regarding Iran (overthrow of the regime, Color Revolution, ethnic uprisings, ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer Southeast Asia is uncomfortably in the middle of 21st-century great power rivalry. China-US competition speeding up with military interventions, economic decoupling, and competing visions of the region has placed ASEAN countries uncomfortably in the middle. With the South China Sea, cyberspace, and sea lanes as the fulcrums, regional strategic contours are increasingly defined by the hopes ...

by Yunus Emre Özgün When Washington and Tel-Aviv launched their sudden offensive against Tehran, the shockwaves didn’t just hit the Middle East—they immediately fractured whatever was left of a European consensus. Caught entirely off-guard, European capitals are now scrambling to draft a cohesive response. But in Paris, the calculus is especially brutal. France finds itself juggling an unprecedented military buildup, ...

The United States has deliberately incited a war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran’s reactions following the US assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamanei came as no surprise to Washington. Contrary to what some argue, I do not share the idea that the US was expecting a “regime collapse” in Iran following the assassination. One does not need deep ...

By Dure Akram, from Lahore / Pakistan No state can ignore armed groups crossing its borders to kill its citizens. Pakistan’s strikes inside Taliban-ruled Afghanistan must be understood first in that context of self-defense. Years of escalating attacks inside Pakistan have convinced its leadership that the Afghan frontier can no longer be treated as a passive security problem. Washington has ...