By Yunus Soner On November 21, The United States announced applying sanctions against the Russian Gazprombank, an entity until today excepted from Washington’s pressure. Why is the Gazprombank important? What role does it play it the Turkish-Russian relations? And even further than that, for European countries? And how can the affected countries react to it. We asked these questions to ...
By Tehran Tapdigov, Baku / Azerbaijan The statement that ended the Second Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and Armenia contains several clauses. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and Russian leader Vladimir Putin signed a statement related to this on November 10, 2020. The 9th clause of the statement concerns the opening of transportation corridors. This includes the ...
By Mehmet Akif Akıncı Following a meeting between Iran’s former president, Ebrahim Raisi, and Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, on the banks of the Aras River, many believed that the tensions between Iran and Azerbaijan over the Zangezur Corridor had finally subsided. It was thought that both sides were moving toward a joint project without further disputes on the ...
By Yiğit Saner Türkiye is steadily developing its relations with African countries. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan was recently in Niger, a key country in the Sahel region. The primary topics of Fidan’s talks were energy, mining, trade, intelligence and defense. Fidan was accompanied by Defense Minister Yaşar Güler, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar, and National Intelligence Organization Director ...
By Mohammed Sabreen It has become clear that the successive developments in the Middle East region imposed “urgent needs” on the countries of the Middle East. These were translated into intense consultations between the major countries in the region on the Palestinian issue, and the Gaza war came to highlight a rare moment of harmony between these countries regarding the ...
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 ...
The AK Party government does not stand up for exporters, industrialists, banks, tourism, fruit and vegetable producers who face threats and pressure from the US authorities. Türkiye will not carry a government that bows down to threats against our relations with Russia, China and Iran, our most important partners in economy and security. No power can prevent Türkiye’s positioning in ...
The Schiller Institute has organized in Paris an international conference titled “Water for Peace”. Various speakers from different countries participated on the conference held in January 9, 2024. As United World International, we consider the conference of strategic value and will publish in two parts the notes of Odile Mojon, one of the organizers. Below is the first part. In ...
Sergey Glazyev is considered an important politician and economist in Russia. He is one of the brightest minds the country has brought up in recent years. Glazyev is known for his works on the economic integration of Eurasia and China and the elimination of the global dominance of the US Dollar. I made an interview with him about the Russian-Turkish ...
Hurricanes and the destruction they cause are spectacular. Despite appearing regularly in the American South, they are still considered to be dangerous and unpredictable. From a day to day perspective they are dangerous and destructive, but from a wider economic perspective, they potentially affect opportunities for recovery and GDP growth. Some of them, such as Katrina and Ida which occured ...