By Mehmet Enes Beşer Southeast Asia stands at a crossroads in the evolution of its healthcare. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of digital health technologies—everything from telemedicine and AI-driven diagnostics to wearable health devices and electronic health records. Yet despite the push, the region threatens to experience uneven growth in driving digital health to a dynamic, inclusive, and scalable ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist When discussing a U.S. ground operation in Hormuz, it would be misleading to view the issue solely through the lens of military capability. For the true determining factors are the constraints imposed by geography, Iran’s war doctrine, and the tension created by the interplay of these two with the U.S.’s global and Israel’s regional positions. ...
The war in Western Asia is beginning to ripple through Türkiye’s economy, testing the resilience of a country that sits at the crossroads of Europe and the Middle East and shares a border region with Iran. For now, daily life appears largely unaffected. At a central Istanbul gas station, there are no visible signs of panic buying or shortages. Yet ...
By Meral Akkaya In the UK, access to dental care under the National Health Service (NHS) is becoming increasingly difficult. Due to funding issues within the public system and the contract model, many dentists are turning to the private sector, causing millions of people to struggle to find appointments. One in three now visits a private dentist. And there has ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer The semiconductor competition is today one of the most strategic arenas of U.S.-China rivalry worldwide. The days of arcane technical supply chains and niche policymaking are over, for semiconductors today are the very lifeblood of contemporary economies—and a theater of geopolitical rivalry. The China-U.S. chip war is as much a struggle for technological leadership as it ...
By Umur Tugay Yücel Iran’s current capacity to resist the United States and to continue striking strategic targets cannot be reduced to a single reason. This capacity and sustainability certainly cannot be considered independently of Chinese and Russian support. The trade, payment systems, and defense collaborations that Iran has developed with China and Russia in recent years have significantly increased ...
From Rome / Italy A wave of anti-war protests is sweeping across Italy, as demonstrators take to the streets to oppose the government’s alignment with Western military actions against Iran. What began as mobilizations around domestic constitutional reforms has rapidly evolved into a broader political confrontation—one that now directly challenges the foreign policy of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Italy’s ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer China’s relations with the People’s Republic of Brunei Darussalam in recent years have generally been good across the board. From expanded trade and investment ties to BRI-enabled infrastructure development, the two countries have forged what both sides refer to as a “strategic cooperative partnership.” Brunei has pursued a pragmatic stance in the South China Sea dispute, ...
By Mehmet Yuva “Iran attacking neighboring Gulf Arab states is wrong!”, “Iran has proxy forces in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, and Afghanistan!” These claims are absurd. Because if a state is capable of ensuring the sovereignty, security, and subsistence of the people under its authority, no parallel proxy force can take root there. If, however, a state cannot fulfill ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer Well before the recent memory global rice price spike, food insecurity had already become more entrenched in its grip on Southeast Asia. Already in the region were millions of individuals experiencing limited access to healthy, affordable food based on a mix of structural risk factors, socio-economic disparities, and more severe weather patterns. Climate change today is ...
By Dr. Emre Senbabaoglu, International Law Scholar. In the war that began following the US and Israeli airstrikes against Iran on February 28, 2026, one of the most tragic incidents of the war occurred. A US Tomahawk missile struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in the city of Minab, Iran, and according to the latest reports, 175 people lost their ...
On March 8th, the people of the world dealt Trump three resounding defeats on a battlefield he doesn’t believe in: the battlefield of democracy. In Iran, Colombia, and Venezuela, on International Women’s Day, in different situations and in different ways, anti-democracy and fascism suffered crushing defeats that express the global rejection of Washington’s absolutist and imperialist practices. Iran: Smooth election ...