Across the southern and midwestern United States, it is common at high school sporting events to see the players join hands in prayer. This tradition has even become the subject of court cases, as it violates the US Constitution for any public school or government institution to promote religion. Regardless, in many football fields and basketball courts, you will see ...
The fourth summit of the Astana process on the Syrian settlement will be held on February 14 in Sochi. The participants will focus on creating zones of de-escalation in Syria and launching a political transition in the country. The attention of the world community is focused on the upcoming summit, causing concern among European countries and the United States. Turkish ...
Nigeria is on the verge of serious change, in particular, a change in leadership. General elections (presidential and parliamentary) are scheduled to start February 16th, 2019, but will they mean significant change for the poverty-struck coastal nation? The current President is 76-year-old coup-leader-cum-democrat Muhammadu Buhari who is running for re-election with the center-left All Progressives Congress. His main opposition is ...
Most people see China as anything but environmentalist, having for some time been one of the most polluted countries on earth. Images in the media are often heart-wrenching, children wearing pollution masks while their parents go through the day more or less helpless to protect them, all while the Chinese government continues to push mass-industrialization for profit and development. While ...
On February 26, the UN Secretary-General’s special envoy for Cyprus, Elizabeth Spehar, will chair an informal meeting between the leaders of Cyprus’s Greek and Turkish communities, Nicos Anastasiades and Mustafa Akinci. It is not clear, however, what questions will be discussed and whether the event will mean a de facto resumption of negotiations on settling the Cyprus crisis. Let’s recall ...
On February 10th, 2019, a massive demonstration took place against Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE (Socialist Party), under the slogan “elections now!” and “United Spain”. While the government claims that 45,000 people attended the protest, the actual number far exceeds that sum according to various sources. The organizers themselves claim that nearly 200,000 people attended. This is ...
Protests against government policies in Catalonia took place in Madrid Protests against liberal Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez took place on Sunday in the center of the Spanish capital. According to local authorities, at least 45 thousand people took part in the rally. The action was supported by key opposition forces and dozens of politicians. The main slogan of the ...
Donald Trump recently made a mockery of his country’s most intellectual organizations – the national intelligence agencies. He accused the intelligence community of naïveté and inaction. Trump’s outburst was triggered by Iran that he hates so much. He didn’t like the things he had heard in a report by the Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, at the hearings of ...
Avrupa ülkeleri, Türkiye’de yaşanan 15 Temmuz darbe girişiminin ardından firar eden, FETÖ’cüleri koruma altına almak için adeta birbirleriyle yarışıyorlar. Öyle görünüyor ki yakında “bizi tercih edin, vatandaşlık verelim” kampanyaları düzenlerlerse hiç şaşırmayacağız. Darbe girişimini başarısız olunca, “uyanık” bazı FETÖ üyeleri, önceden hazırladıkları “B” planını devreye sokarak, ilk gün kargaşasından faydalanmış olacaklar ki, soluğu Avrupa ülkelerine kaçmakta bulmuşlar. Meğer ne kadar ...
Türkiye NATO üyesi olduğu 1952 yılından itibaren ABD ile resmi olarak müttefik. Ancak gel gelelim, ABD’nin uyguladığı “ben” merkezli politikalar sayesinde birçok ülkede olduğu gibi Türkiye’de de, “tehdit” ülke olarak her nedense hep liste başında yer alıyor. Türkiye, ABD ilişkilerinde, 60’lı yıllardan itibaren sayısız krizler yaşandı. İnsanın aklına ister istemez şu soru geliyor peki müttefikimiz, güya dostumuz ABD neden hep ...