As former Prime Minister Theresa May was struggling to master the juggling act of pushing a Brexit deal through Parliament, many people thought the UK’s ejection plan couldn’t possibly have spiralled out of control any faster. In the time Boris Johnson has served as Prime Minister thus far, however, the optimists have been proven wrong. Hi folks – here's what's ...
In order to understand why Turkey has been moving away from the US (a country which had been its ally for 67 years) and has now entered into a strategic partnership with Russia, it is necessary to study certain historical facts. In 1952, Turkey joined the US and its allies as a member of NATO in opposition to the Soviet ...
Türkiye’nin 67 yıllık müttefiki ABD’den uzaklaşmasını ve Rusya ile neredeyse bir müttefik, adeta stratejik ortak konumuna gelmesini anlamak için biraz geçmişe bakmak lazım. Türkiye 1952 yılından itibaren, dönemin SSCB (Rusya)’ya karşı NATO üyesi olarak ABD ile müttefik saflarına katıldı. Oysa son yıllara baktığımızda sanki Rusya bizim yıllardır müttefikimiz, ABD ise bir “tehdit” unsuru olarak karşımıza çıkıyor. NATO’nun kuruluş amacı ve ...
On October 2, US diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad met with Taliban representative Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Pakistan in order to revive the negotiations that were interrupted at the beginning of September. These negotiations were suspended by US President Donald Trump after a suicide attack killed one US solider, one Romanian soldier and 11 civilians in Kabul on September 5. [1] ...
Over the last month, Baghdad and several Shiite-majority cities in Iraq have been affected by popular protests against the government. The demonstrations provoked a heavy reaction from security and paramilitary forces, leaving dozens dead. This article examines the cause of Iraqi protests, the demands of protesters and the perspectives for the future of Iraq. On the eve of the massive ...
October 31 is the date when Great Britain is scheduled to withdraw from the EU. No matter how opponents of Brexit delay the move, sooner or later it will take place. Exiting the EU entails a lot of problems for the political elite, but most crucially it represents the possibility of London making a serious geopolitical shift. For the past 3 years, the British ...
By now word has spread about the hotly contested $6 tax on WhatsApp calls in Lebanon, but are the mass protests really about a tax hike a social media app? The Lebanese government has already announced that it will not go through with imposing the tax… yet, the people are in the streets. In other words, it is no ...
An explosion ripped through the Sabiti, an oil tanker of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), at 05:20 on October 11 in the Red Sea, 60 nautical miles to the southwest of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, supposedly after a missile strike, Iranian media reports said minutes after the incident. Two of the tanker’s reservoirs sustained serious damage and some amounts of ...
It was already clear that the center-left in the United States was poised to change directions in 2016. Clinton’s campaign spared no expense in their effort to push their widely detested candidate from her position as a Secretary of State into the oval office. “It’s her turn”, we were told, and if the Democrat’s voter base had to be taken ...
Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi Genel Başkanı Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu katıldığı bir televizyon programında “Ben ve tüm ailem başta olmak üzere, tüm arkadaşlarımın telefonları dinleniyor” dedi. Telefon dinleme olaylarına uzunca yıllarımı geçirdiğim adliye ve emniyet koridorlarından aşikârım. O dönemler birçok telefon dinleme vakasını haber yapmıştım. Ancak 15 Temmuz 2016 tarihinde yaşadığımız hain darbe girişiminin ardından Fettullahçı Terör Örgütü (FETÖ) mensubu olan yargıçların ve ...