By Dr. Doğu Perinçek, Chairman of Vatan (Patriotic) Party (Türkiye) In an interview published in Hürriyet Newspaper, our Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan advocates armed cooperation between Türkiye and Syria to eliminate the US-led PKK/PYD/YPG terrorist organizations in northern Syria. This is a very important task for Türkiye, Syria and the countries of the region. For many years, the Vatan (Patriotic) ...
The world is discussing the terrorist attack in Moscow. Who did it and why? Who is behind it? What is the attack’s objective and which consequences can it bear? We asked these questions to experts from one of the countries that has been fighting terrorism for decades: Cihat Yaycı and Hasan Köni from Türkiye. Cihat Yaycı is a retired rear ...
United World International author Mehmet Perinçek commented on the latest PKK attack, US and Israeli plans in the region, the importance of confrontation in the Eastern Mediterranean and the opportunities offered by the Astana meeting scheduled for the second half of January in terms of clearing terrorist organizations to RIA Novosti. We present the interview, published in Russian, to our ...
By Said Ali Batrouni * With a significant shift in Türkiye’s strategy toward the Assad regime in Syria, where he has been insisting on regime change, Erdogan stated that Türkiye’s goal in Syria is to find a political solution to the country’s decade-long civil war, rather than defeating Assad. Ankara’s recent statement that it is willing to normalize relations with ...
By Hasan Ünal The 5 August meeting in Sochi between Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin has given rise to speculation in the west over Turkish-Russian rapprochement – and its possible negative impact on western efforts to curtail the imminent multipolar order. Western NATO states have reason to be concerned about Ankara’s recent moves, given the ...
Last week, the public agenda in Türkiye discussed the announcements made after the meeting between the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Sochi; the alleged possibility of a diplomatic meeting between Erdogan and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad by the Turkish-government affiliated Türkiye Newspaper; and the recent tensions with Greece. Erdogan spoke after the Sochi ...
The Turkish government is repeatedly stating its will to pursue another military opeation in the north of Syria. Ankara has also brought up the topic on the recent meeting of the Astana trio in Tehran in meetings with Iranian and Russian counterparts. We interviewed Ismail Hakkı Pekin, retired Lieutenant-General of the Turkish Armed Forces and former Head of Military Intelligence ...
The public agenda in Türkiye has been busy with three main topics last week. The Turkish-Russian-Ukrainian joint grain corridor plan, which was agreed upon for the Black Sea on the initiatives from Türkiye, was the top subject on the agenda. Secondly the terror attacks on Turkish diplomatic missions in Iraq have caused an outrage among the Turkish public. And another ...
Although the tripartite meeting in Tehran had a significant impact on the global media due to its temporal proximity to Biden’s Middle East visit, the principle of this meeting, regardless of its coincidence with Biden’s return to the US, is critical for the Middle East and global equations. The presence of Putin and Erdogan in Tehran comes just a few ...
This week, the world’s eyes were on the Tehran Summit. Speaking of the “world” is not an exaggeration, because the summit dealt with issues that war prone to cause not only regional but global effects. And it also presented an according model of cooperation. The reunion between Türkiye, Russia and Iran by itself is an incident capable of changing global ...