Following the overthrow of the Baath government in Syria, Türkiye is somehow at the center of the new emerging structure. But exactly how? What are the new positive and negative possibilities opening up before Türkiye? We asked Yakup Aslan, the Ankara representative of China Global Television Network, who closely monitors the region, about the new situation and prospects for Türkiye. ...
On December 28, Members of Parliament of the DEM Party met with Abdullah Öcalan in his prison on Imrali Island. The day after, on December 29, the Vatan (Patriotic) Party Central Executive Committee convened and has decided unanimously to declare the following statement to the State of the Republic of Türkiye, the Turkish nation and the world public opinion. Below, ...
By Yiğit Saner French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to Djibouti and Ethiopia has raised many questions about the real objectives Paris hopes to achieve in the Horn of Africa. This visit coincided with a significant decline in French influence in several Sahel countries, including key nations such as Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, as well as Chad and Senegal. ...
By Halim Gençoğlu The United States’ military and biological presence in Africa has been expanding at an alarming rate, according to Major General Aleksey Rtishev, Deputy Chief of the Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Protection Forces of the Russian Armed Forces. He claims that the U.S. is increasingly involved in a network of biological research facilities across the African continent, with ...
By Yunus Soner I travelled several times to the Arab Republic of Syria during the war. To check out Western propaganda that Syria was a sectarian dictatorship, I used to ask people, both in political meetings as well as on the streets, to which religious group they belonged. The answer was always astonishing: ‘I refuse to answer this question. I ...
By Ata Atun, Member of the advisory council to the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus The US and the West may put on the table a map for the inclusion of the Greek Cypriot administration in NATO in exchange for conditions Türkiye will accept on the Cyprus problem. One of the former Greek Cypriot leaders, Glafcos Clerides, ...
Last week in Türkiye, as in the rest of the world, the spotlight was on Syria. The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled the country and sought refuge in Russia following the fall of Aleppo and Damascus with the offensive launched on November 27 by groups led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). The Syrian Arab Republic’s army surrendered without resisting the ...
By Daniel Moser * Political analyst and editor, Argentine and Mexican, Director of HELIOS Comunicación (heliosmx.org) Member of the Center for National Strategic Studies, A. C., in Mexico. Those who know Donald Trump well say that he is a good poker player and, if we observe how he conducts himself when facing confrontations, particularly in relation to Mexico, it seems ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein President Donald Trump has chosen Mark Burnett, producer of the TV game shows “The Voice” and “The Apprentice,” as special envoy for the United Kingdom. He also appointed: Richard Allen Grennel, ambassador to Germany during his first term, as presidential envoy for special missions to Venezuela and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Retired General Keith ...
By Yunus Soner Recently, the Pentagon has announced that US military presence in Syria was not consisting of 900 soldiers, as they have repeatedly declared, but of 2000 soldiers. These forces are stationed in the East of the Euphrates, together and actually safeguarding, forces of the PKK and the Syrian Democratic Forces. We spoke with Dr. Fahri Erenel, retired general ...