by Dure Akram, Lahore / Pakistan In recent weeks, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif of Pakistan has stepped into the spotlight with his strategic outreach to Central Asian nations, seeking to fortify economic ties and elevate Pakistan’s standing within a dynamic regional trade framework. His visit to Baku—which resulted in several key agreements in trade and energy—marks a significant pivot in ...
By Masoud Sadrmohammadi Masoud Pezeshkian, the President of Iran, and Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, signed the “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation” on January 17, 2025, marking the beginning of a new era in Iran-Russia relations. Despite its historical and strategic significance, the treaty did not receive the attention it ...
By Gökalp Erbaş The governments of both Moldova and Transnistria declared a state of emergency last December, initially for one month. Ukraine’s decision not to renew transit agreements for Russian gas for 2025 and Gazprom’s suspension of gas supplies to Moldova due to unpaid debts prompted both governments to take measures against a possible energy crisis. As expected, Ukraine cut ...
By Mohammed Sabreen, Cairo / Egypt “The player in the “Game of Nations” is forced by the nature of his surroundings to move in the game that sometimes has nothing to do with winning. The permanent goal of the players in the Game of Nations is to continue the game because stopping it means inevitable war.” With these words, the ...
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 ...