By Adem Kılıç, political scientist, Türkiye During Trump’s first term as the US President between 2017 and 2021, Türkiye and the US had disagreements on many issues. During Trump’s first term, relations between Türkiye and the US were marked by periodic problems, ranging from the crisis over Trump’s letter to President Erdoğan to the Pastor Brunson incident, from the Halkbank ...
The “Kurdistan Party” and Israeli officials announced that they will hold a panel on November 14 titled “Israeli-Kurdish Alliance for a New Middle East: Future Risks and Opportunities.” The panel announcement states that “in parallel with HAMAS’s October 7th Al-Aqsa Flood Operation, Türkiye has also increased its attacks against the PKK/PYD in northern Syria, and therefore Kurdish-Jewish cooperation is urgent.” ...
By Onur Sinan Güzaltan New developments are unfolding rapidly in West Asia. Days go by with analyses like “The war is now imminent” and “Now today it is even more imminent”. In reality, the war has already started. We are living it. History will write it as such. We simply refrain from naming it. Yes. Let’s return to the topic ...
By Mohamed Sabreen, Cairo / Egypt There is no doubt that Cairo and Ankara have made great strides in strengthening their relations. The summit between Presidents Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave tremendous momentum, prompting some to talk about a new regional order in the Middle East. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine such a regional order in ...
By Tevfik Kadan The Kiev administration had previously collaborated with PKK/PYD to conduct covert operations against Russian forces in Syria. Now it became public that Kyiv has reached out to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the terrorist group occupying Idlib. Kyiv’s objective is to secure the release of Chechen militants held in HTS prisons. Local sources report that a Ukrainian delegation ...
We conducted an interview with Turkish journalist Ceyhun Bozkurt on Türkiye-US relations, Türkiye’s position in NATO and Türkiye’s alternatives to the alliance.In order to evaluate these properly, we looked at the situation in a wide geography from Iraq to Syria, from the Black Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean. The US continues to support the PKK/PYD terrorist organization. Washington recently announced ...
By Mehmet Yuva “There are many truths in life, but death is the absolute reality. Death is closer than your jugular vein. The causes may differ, but death is singular. And every living being will taste death.” We extend our condolences to the people of Iran. The accidental or illness-related death, or assassination, of a head of state and accompanying ...
By Adnan Akfırat In 2023, the People’s Republic of China purchased 91% of the oil produced by Iran. Anxious with that, US President Biden is working on passing a law to impose sanctions on China for its oil purchases from Iran. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Iran has transformed into a construction site. What we see is an extraordinary development in ...
By Mehmet Yuva Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with members of the Central Committee of the Syrian Ba’ath Party on January 16. Urgent issues of the country, as well as various current global topics, especially Palestine, were discussed in the meeting. A few days after the meeting, by presidential decree, Syria’s National Security Chief (former General Intelligence Director) Ali Mamlouk ...
The Iranian Mehr News Agency conducted an interview with UWI author Dr. Mehmet Perinçek for the martyrdom anniversary of General Qasem Soleimani. The interview, published originally in Turkish, has been translated into English by UWI. Qasem Soleimani’s struggle for Palestine How do you evaluate the role of Martyr Soleimani in keeping the Palestinian issue alive? The success of the Palestinian ...