UWI author, historian and political scientist Associate Professor Mehmet Perinçek evaluated the fall of Bashar Assad. Perinçek focuses on the character of the actors and forces in the new government in Damascus. To foresee what might unfold in Syria from now on, we first need to understand the roles of those who have come into power. The US and Israel ...
UWI author, historian and political scientist Associate Professor Mehmet Perinçek evaluated the recent developments in Aleppo focusing on their background and implications for Türkiye. The territorial integrity of Syria and Türkiye The key phrase when assessing developments in Syria from Türkiye’s perspective is: “The territorial integrity of Syria means the territorial integrity of Türkiye”. If we read the phrase reversing ...
By Yunus Soner Prof. Dr. Fahri Erenel is a retired general of the Turkish Armed Forces, who is today working as an analyst, following regional developments very closely. In interview with UWI, he states that the US might have played a role in the recent terror attack in the Turkish city of Ankara, and places it into the broader context ...
The world is discussing the Iranian attack on Israel on April 14. The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Türkiye provided UWI with an interview of the H.E. the Ambassador, Mohammed Hasan Habibollah Zadeh, describing his country’s objectives. Below we present the interview. UWI translated the interview from Turkish to English and set the title and subtitles. Failure ...
Syrian State President Bashar al-Assad’s close associate, former Advisor to Syrian Ministry of Information Prof. Dr. Bessam Abu Abdullah, was the guest on Ulusal Channel from Türkiye. We present some key points from Abu Abdullah, where he evaluated Israel’s attacks on Palestine and latest developments in Western Asia. Translated from Turkish into English by Uwidata. Greater Middle East Project Prof. ...
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), who is Erdoğan’s rival in the run-off Turkish presidential elections, is now frequently emphasizing the refugee issue in his speeches. Kılıçdaroğlu states that they will send the refugees back thanks to the money promised by the EU and through an agreement with the Syrian state. İsmet Özçelik wrote about this ...
By Bessam Abu Abdullah * The presidential and parliamentary elections in Türkiye also concern the unity and sovereignty of Syria, the laws regulating the marriage, family and property laws of the Islamic, Messianic, Jewish and Druze communities, and the future of the secular and unitary state structure. They are also about whether the ethnic and sectarian separatist goals of the ...
By Prof. Dr. Mehmet Yuva * In 2005, in Türkiye chaos erupted on the streets on the pretext of the Nevruz event. In France, the deaths of two Muslim youths in an electrical current while fleeing from the police triggered months of street protests and dozens of workplaces, schools, state institutions and cars were set on fire. In July, in ...
By Prof. Dr. Mehmet Yuva * Recall the Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative (BMENA): In the early 1990s, Soviet Russia and the states subordinate to it collapsed. The US strongly penetrated the new states that broke away from the Soviet Union. Washington used the Fethullah Gulen Gladio, NGOs, Saudi funds and educational institutions in Türkiye very effectively to ...