Turkish-Israeli relations have received some warm messages in the recent weeks. Mesut Hakkı Caşın, Member of Presidential Committee on Security and Foreign Policy declared “if Israel takes one positive step, Turkey will take two”, President Erdogan followed by saying “We would like to bring our ties to a better point”. Bilateral ties have seen tensions since the attack on the ...

Two different and even opposing events marked the last days of 2020 from the European perspective: On the one side, the highly disputed Brexit-deal was signed off. On the other side, an even higher, in fact seven years long disputed negotiation came to conclusion: the European Union – China Comprehensive Investment Agreement (CAI). Announced on the 30th of December, the ...

The request for the extradition of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks that published documents on US war crimes, to the US was rejected. Lawyers of Assange have requested his release on bail from detention. US representatives in the court are expected to appeal the decision. The UK court has decided on the request to extradite Assange to the US. Assange, ...

Italy is a country cornered between two types of imperialism, the main one is American imperialism, which uses its military presence, occupying the country with several NATO bases. Not a leaf moves in Rome without Washington’s approval. The second one is the European Union’s imperialism: although it is subordinated to the US and NATO, it exerts a further nefarious influence ...

As the CAATSA sanctions show, reconciliation with American imperialism is only possible as long as you submit to its repression. Ergo, policies relying on cracks in US domestic politics or presidential changes will, no doubt, end inconclusively. Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Libya, Iran, Liberia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union are all good examples. While ...

For two years the Orthodox world has been split over issues related to Ukraine and the recent developments show that this crisis will only further accelerate. The Moscow Patriarchate (which has the biggest Orthodox community in the world; about half of the Orthodox population) has terminated all of its relations with the Istanbul (Fener) Patriarchate (which is considered to be ...

At a joint news conference with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on December 10, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Turkey’s initiative of “6-country regional cooperation platform” for the post-war era of the recent Karabakh conflict. Erdogan said he had suggested to Russian President, Vladimir Putin a proposal to establish a regional partnership including Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Georgia and Armenia. ...

CAPITALIST PROTESTANT ETHICS Turkey first received with the American aid after 1946. The victorious nuclear power of the Second World War took hegemony in the middle of the 20th century from Great Britain, one of the greatest powers of the 18th and 19th centuries which the Ottomans had viad with for many years. Both of these powers got their strength ...

Trump and coronavirus On December 27 Donald Trump signed a proposed Covid-19 relief and spending bill. “I am signing this bill to restore unemployment benefits, stop evictions, provide rental assistance, add money for PPP, return our airline workers back to work, add substantially more money for vaccine distribution, and much more,” the US president declared. However, he refused to approve ...

The public agenda in Turkey has been busy with three main events this week. The Atlantic Council accused Turkey of being a “rogue state” on their list of top ten risks and opportunities forecast. Another interesting evaluation on Tukey came from the American research group Stratfor, a think tank that includes former top executives in the US government. Lastly, the ...

2020 has been one of the strangest, hardest and most eventful years this century. It began with the high-profile assassination of IRGC General Qassem Soleimani by the Americans, which almost provoked a war between Iran and the US, the fires in Australia, continued with the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, massive protests in the United States, the attempted colour revolution in Hong ...

Major global trends: COVID-19 The new coronavirus pandemic was the biggest problem for all humankind in 2020. What began as just another virus has become a pandemic on a scale comparable to the deadly Spanish flu a century ago. According to the WHO, 72.4 million people have been infected with the coronavirus. Coronavirus has become a major challenge to public ...