By Mohamed Sabreen, from Cairo / Egypt Sometimes crises intertwine and interests intersect, providing the Middle East with a “window of opportunity” to move forward. This was achieved during the unique partnership between King Faisal and President Sadat. The Cairo-Riyadh understanding contributed to the unification of the Arab states, which led to the great October War of 1973. At the ...
By Onur Sinan Güzaltan The outcomes of Al-Sharaa’s White House visit indicate that the US is moving rapidly to implement its Greater Middle East Project 2.0. I summarized the main outlines of this project, as announced by US Ambassador to Ankara and Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack, in an article I wrote last week as follows: 1. Normalization between ...
By Mohammed Sabreen, from Cairo / Egypt The moment seems fleeting, and the allure of reshaping the regional order in the Middle East to Israel’s advantage hangs heavy in the air. But if the past is any indication of what is to come, Israel’s attempt to eliminate all its adversaries will not end well. Undoubtedly, the regional order in the ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist/WriterThe war in Gaza has been temporarily halted by the show of force in Sharm el-Sheikh. However, it should be noted that this is not actually a peace agreement, but merely a ceasefire agreement. This is because, although US President Trump announced that the process had moved to its second phase, there is no roadmap for ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist/Writer The remarks made by Tom Barrack, the US Special Representative for Syria, in recent months that ‘the Sykes-Picot era is now over’ have undoubtedly sparked a new debate. While some commentators suggest that this is an admission that Western hegemony in the region is now being dismantled, I have opposed this view from the outset ...
Much about Syria remains uncertain, and even its near future is hard to predict. In this complex and unpredictable environment, we spoke with Turkish political scientist Umur Tugay Yücel, the author of the book “Decline of US Power and Rising New Powers”. Yücel shared his views on several critical issues: The likelihood of the country staying united or fragmenting, the ...
On this Monday, US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu are expected to meet in Washington. On the agenda is a possible stop of Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip, with a 21-point-plan circulating as the path ahead. Characterizing Israel’s actions against Palestinians “a genocide”, Ofer Cassif explains why in case of their stop the Netanyahu government would ...
By Mohammad Sabreen, from Cairo / Egypt The Gulf states appear to be in a state of shock following Israel’s aggression against Qatar. They have begun a profound process of reconsidering their view of the occupying state and reviewing their ideas regarding normalization. They have reached a preliminary conviction that they may have gone too far in their delusions regarding ...
By Mohamed Sabreen, from Cairo / Egypt There has been much change in Egyptian-Turkish relations. It is no secret to any observer that Arab countries are uncomfortable with talk of “neo-Ottomanism,” and American and Israeli circles do not hesitate to incite against Türkiye, claiming that it seeks to revive the Ottoman Empire. There is no doubt that everyone is monitoring ...
By Dr. Halim Gençoğlu Türkiye describes Israel’s military operations against Gaza as “genocide” and, in this context, is expanding commercial and logistical land borders as well as maritime routes in order to increase pressure. As part of these steps, Türkiye has also joined the international body known as The Hague Group in adopting the maritime embargo decision, which includes stricter ...