By Erkin Feyyaz Eşli An Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190AR passenger jet en route from Baku to Grozny crashed in Aktau, Kazakhstan on December 24. The tragedy was apparently caused by a provocation by Ukraine, supported by the West. That day the plane with 67 passengers was flying from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the ...
By Yunus Soner Having taken ower power in December 2023, Javier Milei has comleted his first year as Argentine president. He has since then changed the country’s economic policy drastically, but also led fundamental changes in political culture. Andrés Rodriguéz is veteran politician of the left New Encounter. In interview, he explains why the Argentine left has been defeated and ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist On January 20, as Trump prepares to return to the White House, his team announced so far and the signs of his approach to the Middle East suggest that Iran will face intense US pressure for regime change in the coming year. The United States has been seeking regime overthrow in Iran for more than ...
By Onur Sinan Güzaltan On December 8, the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria was overthrown by groups backed by Türkiye’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), the US and Israel. Although a government-like structure led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has been established, chaos prevails in Syria. After Assad’s fall, in the north US-backed PKK/PYD/YPG terrorist organization is taking steps to ...
By Gökalp Erbaş The second round of Moldova’s presidential elections, like the first one, was completed last November amid controversies and suspicions. The country now faces parliamentary elections planned for July 2025. After the official results were announced, Maia Sandu secured her presidency, even though the Socialist Party, whose presidential candidate lost by a very small margin, announced that they did not ...
By Masoud Sadrmohammadi The sudden and unopposed fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government, which has been the central topic of global political discussions over the past three weeks, has also captured attention in Iran. This event holds particular significance for the Iranian government and people because it directly ties to Iran’s regional strategy, which has been a crucial part of its ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen For the European Union (EU), 2024 has been a year of deepening economic and political downfall. It is appropriate to gauge the pulse of the EU through the political and economic developments in its largest and most influential countries, France and Germany. The challenges faced in 2024 are expected to carry over into 2025, and likely ...
Ali Erdem Köz from Türkiye’s daily Aydınlık daily newspaper conducted a very comprehensive interview with a former Syrian National Army (SNA) commander in Syria. The interview provides many insights on highly controversial topics of rapidly evolving developments in Syria. We present the full interview translating into English. The Syrian National Army (SNA) was established by Türkiye in 2017 through the ...
By Adem Kılıç, political scientist Beginning on October 7, 2023, Israel’s attacks on Palestine continued throughout 2024 and took their place in the pages of history as a process that caused massive destruction, ethnic cleansing, starvation and genocide, especially along the Gaza Strip. While the US’s “unconditional” support for Israel virtually locked the international institutions and the international system, especially ...
Following the overthrow of the Baath government in Syria, Türkiye is somehow at the center of the new emerging structure. But exactly how? What are the new positive and negative possibilities opening up before Türkiye? We asked Yakup Aslan, the Ankara representative of China Global Television Network, who closely monitors the region, about the new situation and prospects for Türkiye. ...