By Mehmet Enes Beşer China’s rise as a world power has unleashed a diaspora spirit of pride throughout ethnic Chinese groups around the world. It can be sensed in Malaysia, which possesses one of Southeast Asia’s largest and most politically powerful Chinese communities, to be precise. China’s economic rise, global economic power, and growing diplomatic assertiveness are met with a ...

These days, the streets of Minneapolis look like a scene straight out of a Clint Eastwood western shot in the deserts of Arizona. Strange-looking, masked ICE agents, who seem to take themselves to all-powerful town sheriffs, are stopping people in the streets, in their homes, and inside shops. Anyone with darker skin, a slightly large nose, or the faintest foreign ...

Last week’s agenda in Türkiye was busy, as usual. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech assessing rising global tensions and Türkiye’s position in it. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan issued a pointed warning over developments in Iran. And the official minutes from a meeting between jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and MP were released. Erdoğan: Türkiye is one of the ...

When you look at the Mercator map head-on, Greenland appears to sit at the edge of the world, in a remote and marginal location. But take a look instead at Richard Edes Harrison’s maps “The Divided World” (published in 1941) and “One World One War” (published in 1942). According to Cornell University Library’s Digital Collections, published in Fortune Magazine for ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer China’s rise as a world power has been most visibly articulated in terms of economic growth and technological development. But behind the waves of ports, highways, and 5G is a second power quietly remaking the contours of geopolitics: the military-industrial complex. No longer just an inland base of national defense, China’s state-connected defense industry has become ...

By Serdar Üsküplü, Vice Chairman of the Vatan Party (Türkiye) The entity announced by US President Donald Trump under the guise of a “Peace Council” is an attempt to legitimize American aggression by co-opting other states. It is a move designed to mask the strategic defeat, deadlock, and decline the United States is facing globally. The dreams of a unipolar ...

By Yıldıran Acar, Political Scientist In recent years, the Arctic has become an increasingly visible subject in international politics. Climate change, emerging sea routes and the region’s natural resource potential have enhanced its strategic significance. As a result, the policies of Arctic coastal states have become more explicit and more contested. In this context, Russia’s Arctic policy, Western attempts to ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer Donald Trump’s unapologetic enthusiasm for fossil fuels is not just a rejection of climate science—it is an intent to remake world energy geopolitics in America’s image. Under the guise of “energy dominance,” the former and now potentially incoming president has signaled that American oil and gas are not just commodities but weapons of strategic power. While ...

By Dure Akram, from Lahore / Pakistan Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed A Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement in September 2025 that treats aggression against one as aggression against both. Türkiye is now in advanced talks to join, with Pakistan’s defense production minister confirming a draft trilateral text is already “in the pipeline.”  In light of these developments, one is forced ...

On January 15, the Syrian army first launched a major operation in the west of the Euphrates River, forcing the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to withdraw to the east of the River. The Syrian army then took control of Deir ez-Zor, the region home to Syria’s largest oil and natural gas fields, and Raqqa, a city that ISIS had once ...

By Ljubodrag Simonović, Belgrade, Serbia The English writer Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) attracted public attention not only as an outstanding essayist but also as the author of the futuristic study Brave New World (1936), in which he warned about the disastrous development of Western civilization. After World War II, Huxley published The Doors of Perception (1953), in which he sought to ...

By Dr. Halim Gençoğlu In the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the issue of the killing of Palestinian Christians since 1948 is highly controversial and sensitive. Reliable, impartial sources provide comprehensive evidence of a systematic “Christian massacre.” The deaths of Christians in these conflicts are often presented to the public as collateral damage within the broader category of Palestinian casualties, ...