The Black Sea is getting more and more into the focus of world politics, due to its long enduring conflicts in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as around Ukraine. The Parliamentarian Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (PABSEC) is one of the important institutions where these conflicts play out – all sides of these conflicts are simultaneously ...
On August 7, an explosion occurred in the port of Kocaeli in Türkiye at grain silos, right after the unloading of grain from a cargo arriving from the Russian port of Novorossiysk. Dr Eray Güçlüer says its too early to speak of sabotage, but observes some suspicious moments in the explosion. At the same time, international diplomacy around the ...
NATO concluded its summit in Vilnius with approval of a new defense plan. The road for the inclusion of Sweden has been opened. Meanwhile, both the alliance’s plans for and the tensions in the Black Sea are increasing. We spoke to Retired Brigadier General Fahri Erenel on these issues. Erenel is also teaching at the Istinye University as Director of ...
NATO has approved a new defense plan on its recent summit in Vilnius, the United States is accelerating moves to increase presence in the Black Sea where the Ukrainian forces continuously attack Russian ships. Meanwhile, Russia has suspended the Grain Corridor agreement. We spoke to ret. Admiral Ali Deniz Kutluk from the Turkish Naval Forces on all these issues and ...
Russia did not approve the prolongation of the Black Sea Grain Agreement. United World International author Mehmet Perinçek provided an interview on the reasons for that, how the agreement can be saved and which stance Türkiye should take to the Turkish daily newspaper Aydınlık. Below we present the translation of the interview. Why did Russia not renew the grain agreement? ...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan agreed to submit Sweden’s NATO membership to the approval of the Turkish Grand National Assembly during the trilateral summit in Vilnius. The joint statement after the summit on the evening of July 10 involves “Sweden’s steps to address Türkiye’s concerns” like intensifying the fight against the terrorist organization PKK and even making amendments in related laws. ...
United World International continues publishing papers that were presented to the Global Multipolarity Confernce held on April 29. The conference was organized by Nova Resistência (Brazil), the New International Order Initiative (Türkiye), the International Eurasian Movement (Russia), the Thinkers’ Forum (China) and the International Russophile Movement. The following speeches have been published until today: Video adress sent by Sergey Lavrov, ...
The Russian Ministry of Defense declared that on May 24, Ukrainian forces had attacked a Russian military vessel in the Black Sea. According to the statement, three unmanned high-speed boats attacked the Russian ship Ivan Khurs. The ship foiled the attack. The Ministry said the ship’s mission was to protect the TurkStream and BlueStream pipelines. We started our interview with ...
Georgiy Muradov, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Crimea under the President of Russia and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea provided an interview to United World International. Muradov said they were reacting with patience on sanctions and warned his government was able “to deal an economic blow” to Europe. Indicating readiness to cooperate with Türkiye, Muradov ...
A US reconnaissance drone crashed over the Black Sea on March 14. The US claimed that Russia’s ‘unsafe and unprofessional’ actions caused the incident while Russia accused the US of collecting data and delivering it on to Kyiv. We interviewed on the issue with two experts: Deniz Kutluk, retired rear admiral in the Turkish Naval Forces and Prof. Dr. Fahri ...