On August 25, the US Secretary of State visited Sudan for the first time in 15 years. Mike Pompeo’s visit followed the landmark announcement that diplomatic relations had been established between the UAE and Israel. According to the State Department, Pompeo and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok discussed “positive developments in the Sudan-Israel relationship” in Khartoum. Given the fact that Sudan ...
By Prof. Dr. Mehmet Seyfettin Erol After US President Donald Trump announced on August 13 that Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had reached an agreement to “completely normalize their relations”, all eyes turned to the Arab-Israeli issue and Palestine once again. This development, which initially ignored Palestine altogether, appeared as a new rupture with the Gulf states in ...
Protests in Belarus Post-election protests in Belarus became the focus of international organizations, politicians and the media. Several serious clashes between the demonstrators and the police were reported. On Sunday, a rally of thousands of opponents of the current Belarusian authorities took place in Minsk; the event was not coordinated with the city authorities. Participants of the rally held protest ...
The explosion in Lebanon’s capital Beirut claimed the lives of over 100 people and left 4,000 wounded. The number of casualties is increasing as those seriously injured die off. Just as the footage of the explosion hit social networks, the world media began to spread theories that mainstream media calls conspiracy theories. Nevertheless, such narratives on occasion contain a fraction ...
The Palestinian Ambassador to Turkey, Faed Mustafa, stated that Palestine was ready to make the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) agreement with Turkey. Answering the questions asked by İsmet Özçelik from the journal Aydınlık, Mustafa assessed the developments in the Eastern Mediterranean. Stating that the Palestinian state has the rights to oil and natural gas in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Ambassador ...
As the American edition of Axios reports this week, the head of the State Department Michael Pompeo, adviser to the president on national security Robert O’Brien, the senior adviser and the son-in-law of the head of the American state Jared Kushner and Ambassador of the USA in Israel David Friedman are supposed to meet with Donald Trump to discuss Israel’s ...
One of the leading institutions of the Israeli lobby in the United States, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), recently declared that “America Must Act In Libya Against Turkey, Russia”. On June 8, Breaking Defense, a well-known US web portal on defense and security issues, posted related material. "The time has come for the United States to assert ...
There is a large front uniting against Turkey, which consists of the European Union under the names of Italy, Greece and Greek Cyprus; Israel, Egypt, the Gulf Countries and the United States behind the curtains. Turkey’s opportunity is that this large front is not a solid one, and the cracks between them deepen, especially after the Turkish-backed forces’ successes in ...
The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed that the Chinese Ambassador to Israel Du Wei was found dead on the morning of May 17 at his home in Tel Aviv. The forensic team that examined the cause of death found that he died in a dream from sudden cardiac arrest on the night of Sunday. However, sending the body to Beijing has ...
NATO’s support for the GNA On May 16, the Prime-Minister of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez Al-Sarraj held a telephone conversation with the general secretary of NATO Jens Stoltenberg. Nato’s support for the GNA brings a new actor to the Libyan conflict. It’s worth noting that this is a rare expression of support for the government in ...