By Serhat Latifoğlu US President Roosevelt and Saudi King Abdulaziz laid the foundations of the petrodollar system on February 14, 1945, during their meeting aboard the USS Quincy. It was based on a very powerful formula: oil and dollars in exchange for security. The US would provide military guarantees to the Gulf countries; in return, oil trade would be done ...
By Feyyaz Erkin Eşli On April 15, 2026, Russia’s Ministry of Defense released a significant statement regarding the continuation of the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. It was reported that on March 26, 2026, a number of European countries decided to increase the supply of military drones to the AFU (Armed Forces of Ukraine), indicating that European states have ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer As Russia-China strategic alignment becomes increasingly solidified with yet further heightening passion—based on converging geopolitical interests crossing and heightening economic interdependence—the world of Southeast Asia has watched with keen interest. Among them, however, Vietnam will be the hardest hit by the impact of the solidified axis. While other nations in the region have enjoyed friendly relations ...
By Dure Akram, from Lahore / Pakistan In Muscat this week, Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araqchi sat opposite Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq and delivered a blunt message that echoes far beyond the Gulf: foreign military presence, Tehran argues, is not a source of security but a driver of insecurity. His call for a regional security framework echoed through Islamabad earlier ...
A few years ago, even the most optimistic observers would not have dared to imagine the Middle East, or the Islamic world at large, witnessing an alliance between its traditional or central powers. This was simply because those powers were embroiled in varying degrees of dispute and rivalry. The rivalry between Egypt and Türkiye was stark and overt following the ...
On April 22, 2026, a round table discussion titled “Fidel Castro and World Politics: The Cuban Experience in Diplomacy and International Relations” was held in Moscow, hosted by the Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University (RUDN) in collaboration with the Fidel Castro Foundation. Dr. Mehmet Perinçek gave a speech at the meeting, which brought together academics and diplomats. We are sharing ...
Türkiye seeks to offer alternative trade and energy routes following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran in the war against the US and Israel. The “Middle Corridor”, which bypasses Iran, is considered alternative routes for Qatari natural gas and Iraqi oil, which are currently dependent on the Strait of Hormuz. “Island of stability” In a recent statement, ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer Paris wants the world to believe New Caledonia is an internal administrative matter—an overseas “territory” managed through lawful procedures, democratic votes, and carefully branded “dialogue.” That story is convenient. It’s also colonial. Because when a European state holds a Pacific people inside its republic by force of history, demography, and bureaucracy, that is not a neutral ...
By Shota Apkhaidze, President of Caucasian Center for Islam Studies The following speech was held at the Security Conference on the South Caucasus, organized by the National Strategy Center (USMER), convened on April 22, 2026, in Ankara Türkiye. Contrasting the Heartland and Rimland, Spykman stated: • Whoever controls the Rimland dominates Eurasia; • Whoever dominates Eurasia controls the destiny of ...
By Yasin Okyay In the parliamentary elections in Hungary held on 12 April, the opposition Tisza Party, led by MEP and former Fidesz member Péter Magyar won by a clear margin. With 53.5 percent of the vote, the Tisza Party secured 138 seats in parliament. Orbán’s party, Fidesz, and its ally, the Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP), received only 38 ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer Where semiconductors are as strategically important as oil once was, global competition for technological superiority has placed new stress—and new fault lines—on the microchip supply chain. But in the face of increasing decoupling and technological competition sound bites, China has a rival message: one of contribution, integration, and cooperation. Instead of being merely a consumer and ...
By Edvard Chesnokov, from Moscow / Russia Alexander Sharov is the head of RusIranExpo, a famous B2B-firm aimed at pushing trade between Moscow and Tehran. Having visited Iran hundreds of times, Mr. Sharov can be considered as an expert in the import-export dimension of trans-Caspian partnership. Exclusively to our website, he commented on the economic impact of the 2026 American/Israeli war ...