The Schiller Institute has organized on July 8 and 9 an international conference titled “On the Verge of a New World War – European Nations Must Cooperate” in Strasbourg, France. Several politicians and scholars from a wide range of countries participated, and UWI will present a number of selected speeches from the conference. We start our series with the opening ...
Syrian State President Bashar al-Assad’s close associate, former Advisor to Syrian Ministry of Information Prof. Dr. Bessam Abu Abdullah, was the guest on Ulusal Channel from Türkiye. We present some key points from Abu Abdullah, where he evaluated Israel’s attacks on Palestine and latest developments in Western Asia. Translated from Turkish into English by Uwidata. Greater Middle East Project Prof. ...
By Orçun Göktürk, President of the Turkish-Chinese Belt and Road Institute The 3rd Belt and Road Forum ended last Wednesday. During the two-day forum, Chinese President Xi Jinping described the Belt and Road Initiative as ‘part of a great struggle against colonialism and development injustice’. The Belt and Road, which is also described as the largest such initiative in human ...
The war in Palestine continues. It is framed especially by Western politicians and media as a conflict between Israel and Hamas. Is that true? Türkiye has proposed to establish a guarantor system on Gaza and presented itself as ready to take responsibility. What does that mean? And, what should the regional countries do in order to prevent an Israeli ground ...
By Jacques Cheminade, President Solidarité et Progrès (France) “Out of the strong came forth sweetness.” (Judges 14:14) “Pray at night so that people can sleep.” (Hadith) The situation in the Middle East is a shame for all. A shame, because nobody really fought to put an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We have allowed a people who live surrounded by ...
By Rafet Ballı The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas made a smart military move bringing Palestine to the forefront of the world’s agenda. Israel couldn’t fully comprehend the political plan of the resistance front. At the cost of a massacre, Israel is trying to suppress the Palestinian people as a whole. Just as Israel has been doing since 1947 their aim ...
Mahmoud Darwish, one of the symbolic figures of Palestinian resistance, writes his poem A lover from Palestine as follows: “Palestinian she was and still is”. The resistance of Palestine has been echoing in various forms of art for years, from literature to music, from sculpture to cinema. The truth of Palestine is again and again being voiced. This week, I ...
Last week we outlined some elements of study of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from the perspective of its local dimension and the media coverage of it, which tries to generate opinion matrices that hide the true causes and those responsible for it. It is very difficult to write while maintaining equanimity when witnessing a genocide that the world limits itself to ...
The eyes of the world are focused on Gaza. Israel is preparing for a ground offensive. The Palestinian people have been awaiting a spark to invigorate this resistance for quite a while. A significant struggle began on October 7th. Israel’s massacres persist. Eyes are also turning to Türkiye security measures and people are curious about the steps Türkiye will take. ...
The daily newspaper Aydınlık conducted an interview with Dr. Ali Hajj Hassan, the Head of the Youth Sector in Hezbollah’s Educational Unit. Uwidata translated the interview from English into Turkish. ——— – In the name of God, the gracious, the merciful – How do you evaluate the Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood”? We congratulate, first of all, the resistant Palestinian people and ...