By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist / Writer According to many experts, February 28 will take its place in the near future as the starting date of World War III. However, I have repeatedly stated in my World Of Türkiye analyses that World War III has in fact been ongoing for quite some time. Indeed, while the world has already experienced ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer The global order has experienced rapid geopolitical and economic changes over recent decades. The post-World War II international order dominated by the Western world by institutions such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank is also challenged to a larger extent by a shifting world order. The third world is ...

Very strange and highly contradictory statements have so far been issued by the Cypriot, Greek, and British authorities regarding the drones and missiles from Iran, because of which Greek and other NATO forces rushed—or are rushing—to the island. 1. The British Secretary of State for Defense, John Healey, announced on Sunday morning that two Iranian missiles were launched toward Cyprus ...

By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China More than a week has passed since the renewed attacks by the US and Israel against Iran and the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. During this period, Iran targeted almost all US bases in West Asia and carried out successful retaliations against Tel Aviv. The operations launched by Trump with the statement, ...

The war that began on February 28 with US/Israeli airstrikes on Iranian cities continues. The boundaries of the war, both in terms of time and geography, remain unclear. It is likely to prolong and spread… The conclusions from the first act; 1. The US/Israel failed to achieve their strategic objectives regarding Iran (overthrow of the regime, Color Revolution, ethnic uprisings, ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer Southeast Asia is uncomfortably in the middle of 21st-century great power rivalry. China-US competition speeding up with military interventions, economic decoupling, and competing visions of the region has placed ASEAN countries uncomfortably in the middle. With the South China Sea, cyberspace, and sea lanes as the fulcrums, regional strategic contours are increasingly defined by the hopes ...

by Yunus Emre Özgün When Washington and Tel-Aviv launched their sudden offensive against Tehran, the shockwaves didn’t just hit the Middle East—they immediately fractured whatever was left of a European consensus. Caught entirely off-guard, European capitals are now scrambling to draft a cohesive response. But in Paris, the calculus is especially brutal. France finds itself juggling an unprecedented military buildup, ...

The United States has deliberately incited a war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran’s reactions following the US assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamanei came as no surprise to Washington. Contrary to what some argue, I do not share the idea that the US was expecting a “regime collapse” in Iran following the assassination. One does not need deep ...

By Dure Akram, from Lahore / Pakistan No state can ignore armed groups crossing its borders to kill its citizens. Pakistan’s strikes inside Taliban-ruled Afghanistan must be understood first in that context of self-defense. Years of escalating attacks inside Pakistan have convinced its leadership that the Afghan frontier can no longer be treated as a passive security problem. Washington has ...

When the Israeli-born Jewish academic Prof. Dr. Israel Shahak said, “The Nazis made me afraid to be Jewish; the Israelis made me ashamed to be Jewish,” he was questioning the legal identity of the state of Israel. Similarly, the American linguist, philosopher, and political activist of Jewish origin, Noam Chomsky, describes Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territories as “far ...

Many things are being said, but it’s not known for sure whether the decision to attack Iran was a miscalculation based on information the CIA gave Trump claiming that Iran was fragile and therefore an easy target to defeat. Or it could have been the opposite: that the Pentagon warned him about the risks a large-scale military operation posed to ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer Let’s be honest: the old “one sheriff in town” story is tired. You still hear it in policy speeches—usually delivered with a straight face—but it doesn’t describe how the world actually behaves anymore. Power is scattered. Influence is negotiated. And most countries, if you catch them off-script, will admit they’re already living in a world where ...