By Tuncer Kılınç * For a long time, the US, today’s representative of imperialism, has been continuing its destructive and corrosive attitude against our laic, i.e. secular state structure and the Kemalist commanders of our army by trying to disrupt our unity and integrity and by using the opponents of laicism within us. A blow to laicism In this respect, ...

The Eastern Mediterranean Basin was included in the new Russian Naval Doctrine approved recently. The area is considered for the first time as a “region that would significantly affect the country’s economic development, national prosperity and security”. And the growing Russian interest in the Eastern Mediterranean creates some important opportunities for Türkiye and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). ...

Russia included Greece in the list of unfriendly countries on 23 July. Russian Ambassador to Greece, Andrei Maslov said: “The entire rich body of bilateral relations accumulated over decades has been nullified in a matter of days.” Historian and political scientist Mehmet Perinçek made evaluations on the issue for United World International. Perinçek expressed his opinion about the attitude Türkiye ...

By Prof. Dr. Ata Atun * The Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Anastasiadis has sent a message to the vice-president of Türkiye, Fuat Oktay, regarding the latter’s speech released after the graduation ceremony of a university in the TRNC. Anastasiadis said: “Türkiye and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus do not want to make any concessions.” Nikos Anastasiadis said it is ...

The pace of regional and global developments accelerated dramatically and it will gradually become impossible to prevent seemingly unrelated cases from interacting with each other. While no one thought before that Greece would become an effective actor in the Middle East game, in recent weeks the country has suddenly become one of the main figures in politics of world imperialist order. This behavior ...

Can the waves at the Black Sea calm the waters of the Eastern Mediterranean? In less maritime words: will the conflict in the Ukraine lead to a reset in the long-time troubled Turkish – American bilateral relations? A recent hearing in US House of Representatives may provide some answers. On April 4, the US-Turkish Strategic Dialogue Mechanism has been inaugurated. ...

By Hasan Ünal* * Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations of Maltepe University. This text was first published by Baku Dialogues in the edition Winter 2022. As of this writing, tensions between Russia and Ukraine appeared to continue unabated, despite the Putin‑Biden online meeting and the exchange of several messages between Washington and Moscow aimed at ...

United World International is starting a new article series, where international experts evaluate the year 2021 and present their predictions and expectations for the year 2022. Today we present the views of Dr. Doğu Perinçek, Chairman of the Vatan Party (Turkey). If you were the one to name the title, you would also hesitate, thinking if you should name it ...

38 years ago, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) was proclaimed on November 15, 1983. On this occasion, United World International expert gave an interview to the Azerbaijani news outlet zerkalo.az. UWI presents below the article as published by the news outlet. The original text can be read here. Subheadings were set by UWI. “Live peacefully on one island, ...

The situation in Cyprus and Crimea as a major topic in Turkish-Russian relations, the rapprochement process between Ankara and Cairo and the Turkish policies regarding Syria are hotly discussed regionally. We spoke about these issues with Yaşar Yakış, Turkish Foreign Minister 2002 – 2003 during the first term of the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP). While stressing that Turkey ...