Reporting from Cairo / Egypt The Qatari national team did not score in the opening match of the World Cup, which is currently being held in Qatar, any goal against Ecuador. But Qatar scored the most important political goal in the Middle East this year. A friendly handshake took place on the sidelines of the opening ceremony between Egyptian President ...
By Işıkgün Akfirat Nowadays, it is being debated how the maritime jurisdiction delimitation agreement between Lebanon and Israel will change the balance of power in the region. The officials from these two countries are set to meet at the United Nations Assembly, before October 31st in order to sign the agreement. Hezbollah also supported the agreement being reached at the ...
United World International has organized a webinar titled “The Grain War: Sanctions, Hunger and the Quest for a Multipolar World” on October 24. The webinar hosted 3 speakers: Vyacheslav Matuzov, former Soviet and Russian diplomat, Halil Özsaraç, retired Turkish Navy Staff Captain and Dr. Sherif Fayyad, PhD in agricultural economics, member of the Political Bureau of the Progressive Party, Egypt. ...
The United States government has recently lifted the more-than-30-years-old-embargo on arms exports to South Cyprus. This move indicates that Washington is preparing a new political-military offensive in the Eastern Mediterranean. Whom will the US weapons sent to the island target? An answer is provided by Mark I. Foz and Ari Cicurel in a recent article published on thehill.com. Fox has ...
By Adem Kılıç * The Cyprus problem is one of the oldest negotiated problems in the world in the field of international relations. It is one of the issues that enter the international literature as ‘frozen conflict’, in this sense, it resembles the Lebanon, Israel-Palestinian, Taiwan, Kashmir, Abkhazia-South Ossetia and Karabağ issues.The biggest problem on the island derives from Britain’s ...
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, ...
Two Greek coast guard boats opened harassment fire on a cargo ship in international waters in the Aegean some 18 kilometers (11 miles) off Türkiye’s southwestern coast of Bozcaada on September 10. Tensions between Ankara and Athens have mounted in recent weeks, sparking international concern. While the two neighbours’ problems in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean have a long history, ...
By Prof. Dr. Ata Atun * For a long time, Greece has been very concerned about losing its regional importance, not being taken into account and not being treated as a respectable state. The recent rise of Türkiye as a global actor has severely harmed Greek politicians’ morale and future plans, to the point where they have begun to plot ...
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 ...
At present, pessimistic approaches base themselves on the hearsay that “Russia will land in the warm waters” in order to reject Turkish-Russian friendly relations in Syria, Libya and the eastern Mediterranean. In fact, the question of accessing the “warm waters” goes back to Russia’s search for a ‘non-freezing harbor’, which started as early as the 18th century. At that time, ...