On September 5, a military coup took place in Guinea, a small African state in the west of the continent. A group of soldiers led by army Col. Mamadi Doumbouya arrested the president of Alpha Conde. The military junta, which took over the power, closed the country’s borders and abrogated the constitution. The world community condemned the coup. The Turkish ...
A delegation from the Egyptian Foreign Ministry will visit Ankara between September 7 and 8 to hold exploratory talks. United World International interviewed the former Deputy Foreign Minister of Egypt, Rakha Ahmed Hassan on the visit’s content. The relations between Ankara and Cairo have been at odds since the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood government in 2013. Since then, these ...
Nicaragua’s decision to support Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the presidency of CELAC revealed bilateral tensions between Managua and Buenos Aires. What are the real motives? What other countries are involved in this impasse? What about the left in Latin America? On the surface On July 30, 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Nicaragua reported, ...
On August 23, 2021, two decrees relating to “Determine the maritime jurisdictional areas” of the aforementioned trans-Andean country were published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Chile, one of these decrees (CVE 2000795) implies an overlap in the delimitation of sovereign territories of the Argentine Republic, more specifically about: 5 thousand square kilometers belonging to the Argentine continental ...
The United States and its NATO allies have completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of occupation and presence on August 31. US President Biden dedicated major parts of a speech held on the same day to the evacuation efforts, describing these as an “extraordinary success”. Biden said the “assumption — that the Afghan government would be able to ...
Last week, the public agenda in Turkey has been busy with three main topics. The first topic were the 30th of August Victory Day celebrations throughout the country and celebration messages by leaders. The second was the announcement of the continuation of exploratory talks between the Egyptian delegation, headed by the deputy Foreign Minister, and their Turkish counterparts. The third ...
The Fener (Istanbul) Patriarch Bartholomew’s visit to Ukraine (20-24 August) has already caused reactions from the Russian Orthodox Church. As I wrote in my previous articles, tensions between Istanbul and Moscow Patriarchates turned into a serious conflict and resulted in the termination of relations between these two significant churches of the Orthodox world because of the situation in Ukraine. In ...
By Mishelle Muñoz – Mexico City With thanks to Diego Ilinich Matus Taking over the presidency of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador stated in the ceremony in front of the Congress on December 1st, 2018: “Friends, by mandate of the people today we begin the fourth political transformation of Mexico, it may seem pretentious or exaggerated, but today a new ...
By Mehmet Kıvanç The conference of country’s neighboring Iraq has convened in Baghdad on August 28. The conference, which has been in preparation for a long time, has coincided with the days of US defeat in Afghanistan. Countries neighboring Iraq as well as regionally influential states were invited, such as Turkey, France, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, United Arab ...
Exactly 37 years ago, one of my articles named “The Meaning of the Olympic Ideals, or an Aestheticized Meaninglessness” was published in the only youth magazine published in Turkey at the time, called Yeni Olgu (The New Phenomenon). In fact, it was rather a ‘fancy’ article written with all the excitement of my youth, and the introduction part also included ...