BM raporuna göre, ABD bankaları para aklama eylemleri sebebiyle yaklaşık 3 milyar dolar, Avrupa’daki bankalar ise 6 milyar dolar ceza ödedi. Birleşmiş Milletler Uyuşturucu ve Suç Ofisi’nin (UNODC) yayınladığı bir rapora göre, kripto para birimlerinden bağımsız olarak yılda yaklaşık 2 trilyon dolar kara para aklanıyor. İngiliz Ulusal Suçlarla Mücadele Kurumu’na göre ise, her yıl 100 milyar sterlinin üzerinde para İngiltere ...
Trump-Erdogan talks Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks over the phone with US President Donald Trump this week. According to sources from the Turkish presidential administration, the recent events in Syria, the importance of supporting the political settlement process and the need for joint action against terrorism were all on the agenda. Erdogan reaffirmed his desire to continue Turkey’s ...
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on February 21 that two Turkish prospecting vessels would get down to geological exploration of oil and gas deposits off the shores of Cyprus shortly. Ankara will thus demonstrate that any prospecting in the area can be done only with Turkey’s consent, Cavusoglu said. He also indicated that Turkey is not going to allow ...
Soğuk Savaşın sona ermesiyle birlikte bir taraftan “Tarihin Sonu” diyerek tüm dünyayı artık sadece tek bir merkezde geliştirilen anlayışın yöneteceğini muştulayan tezler ortaya atılırken diğer taraftan da Soğuk Savaş boyunca oluşan dengeden dolayı sımsıkı kapatılmış pandoranın kapağı ardına kadar açılmıştı. Gelinen noktada tarihin sonu gelmediyse de, tarihin sonu tezlerinin sonuna geldiğimiz oldukça aşikardır. Türkiye açısından konuyu ele aldığımızda, tüm Soğuk ...
On the one hand, the end of the Cold War signaled the beginning of liberalism’s unipolar world domination, and the end of any possibility for competing ideas. On the other, the balance of power maintained by the Cold War was upended, opening a geopolitical Pandora’s box. To date, Francis Fukuyama’s prematurely announced “end of history” has not arrived, and its ...
When Donald Trump took office in January 2017, he made it clear that countering Iran was a top priority on his agenda. Trump ripped up the Iran Nuclear Deal, also known as JCPOA; reimposed pre-JCPOA sanctions and even added new ones that were unprecedented in terms of their scope and scale; and put Iranian citizens, activists and fugitive political dissidents ...
Summit in Sochi The fourth summit of the Astana process on the settlement of the crisis in Syria was held on February 14 in Sochi. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan considers the summit to have been an important step. “The Summit in Sochi was very efficient and useful. The second round of talks began with Sochi, we hope that the fifth ...
Ankara, who is now shifting away from the USA and towards the regional powers, is expected to begin negotiations with Damascus. Of course right now a low level exterior politics is underway with Syria. At this situation, intelligence agencies cannot just say “We execute whatever our leader orders.”. Many times leaders are off the grid, then what will they do? ...
The Islamic Republic of Iran recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, a revolution which turned an American ally to an American enemy. Some still try to analyze the reasons why Iranian students attacked the US embassy at the beginning during the revolution and created a dispute which not only led to a cut off in relations between ...
On the background of the US and Russia’s withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), one can hear increasingly often that Turkey might change its status in the emerging new international layout and change its status of a non-nuclear weapons state. Herein we’ll consider the possibility of a step of this kind. It is common knowledge that the US ...