The U.S. and Iran are locked in a tough confrontation for forty years. They do not have direct diplomatic relations and are engaged in a major ideological war, playing an important role on the geopolitical map of the world at the same time. Nonetheless, although Tehran and Washington have turned into two hostile camps over years of the stand-off, they ...

A BRIEF INTRODUCTORY HISTORY Yemen is located in what has historically been considered the finest part of the Arab Peninsula, which has prompted numerous attempts to take control of the area. Before oil was found elsewhere on the Peninsula, Yemen was also seen as having the largest concentration of natural wealth. At that time, Saudi Arabia had little more than ...

Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan’ın Rusya ziyareti kapsamında Rusya Devlet Başkanı Putin ileortak basın toplantısı düzenlendi. Putin, Suriye’nin toprak bütünlüğüne saygı duyulması çağrısında bulunurken Erdoğan ise Soçi Mutabakatıyla üzerimize düşen sorumlulukları ancak rejimin saldırılarına son vermesiyle yerine getirebiliriz vurgusunda bulundu. ERDOĞAN İLE PUTİN ‘SU-57’Yİ’ Yİ İNCELEDİ Rusya’nın başkenti Moskova’da, Jukovskiy Uluslararası Havaalanı’nda düzenlenen MAKS-2019 Uluslararası Havacılık ve Uzay Fuarı‘na katılan Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip ...

In the French city of Biarritz, a three-day summit featuring the heads of state from 7 of the world’s largest economies (Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada, the USA, France and Japan) has come to a  close. The hottest topics of discussion were trade relations, a nuclear deal with Iran, the protests in Hong Kong, the situation in Libya and (unexpectedly) ...

Israelis will go to ballot boxes, on September 17 snap elections, to elect the 120 members of the Knesset. In the prior elections in April 2019, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to secure a relative majority and did not succeed in forming a coalition government, the first such failure in Israel’s history. Now Netanyahu needs a helping hand from ...

Italian chaos Italian President Sergio Mattarella accepted the resignation of Giuseppe Conte, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers. “The president of the republic took note of the resignation and asked the government to take care of completing the current tasks,” the office of the Italian head of state said on Tuesday evening, August 20, after Conte visited Mattarella at ...

Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential elections has had dire implications for the American “Greater Middle East” project which has guided US foreign policy in the Middle East since it was first put forward in 2003. Trump’s reorientation toward internal US problems (migration, economy, protectionism), the emergence of new geopolitical rivals (China and Iran) and the turning point being ...

Aylardır tartışılan, Türkiye ile ABD arasında güvenli bölge konusunda nihayet somut bir adım atıldı. Türk ve ABD’li komutanlar, 24 Ağustos tarihinde Fırat’ın Doğusunda ortak bir helikopter uçuşu gerçekleştirdi. Pentagon, Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri ile ortak uçuş yapılmasının “bir dönüm noktası olduğunu” açıkladı. Fırat’ın Doğusunda oluşturulacak güvenli bölge için iki ülke de geçtiğimiz günlerde anlaşmaya varıldığını duyurmuş, ancak anlaşmanın içeriği ile ilgili ...

Erdoğan Toprak, the chief adviser to the chairman of the People’s Republican Party (CHP) and the parliamentary deputy from the province of Istanbul, prepared a report on the issue of Qatari investments, which, in recent years, have been increasingly discussed throughout Turkey. According to the Turkish Ministry of Economy, from 2002 to March 2017, Qatar made direct investments in Turkey ...

The victory of Alberto Fernández in the PASO has generated a financial, social and political earthquake in Argentina. Who is Fernández, and what would his victory mean for the crisis-worn South American country? Argentina’s internal political context Fernández’ incumbent opponent, Mauricio Macri, was likely surprised that, after the economic and social disasters of left-wing Peronism (also known as Kirchnerism), it ...