Türkiye’s agenda last week was tied to global developments. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s speech at the United Nations, President of Parliament Numan Kurtulmuş’s visit to Russia and Presidential Advisor Yiğit Bulut’s statements regarding Israel were the key topics. President Erdoğan at the United Nations President Erdoğan visited New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly. In addition to delivering ...

By Tehran Tapdigov, Baku, Azerbaijan Armenia drifting westwards, Azerbaijan applying officially for BRICS membership, Russian President Putin making one of his rare travels to Baku, turmoil in Georgia and a steady balance of tension and cooperation between Iran and Azerbaijan. The South Caucasus is in a constant change that turns eyes to its grand neighbor, Türkiye. We spoke about Ankara’s ...

Former Turkish State Minister Cavit Çağlar recently suggested in an interview, “If it were up to me, I would get rid of the S-400s. We could sell them, and there are ready buyers. Russia would understand”. However, this proposal is fraught with traps for Türkiye on multiple fronts. NATO-dependent defense systems do not suffice Before examining this issue from the ...

Türkiye signed an anti-Russia declaration at the “Summit on Peace in Ukraine” just before Erdoğan and Putin’s meeting in Astana on July 3-4. Switzerland hosted the “Summit on Peace in Ukraine” on 15 and 16 June 2024, in the city of Bürgenstock (Canton of Nidwalden). Some 100 delegations and 57 heads of state and government attended the Summit. The final ...

By Aykut Diş The warnings of Russian president Vladimir Putin regarding the TurkStream and Blue Stream pipelines during the International Economic Forum meeting have become a hot topic. Putin said to the heads of international news agencies that Ukraine sees the natural gas pipelines connecting Russia to Türkiye as “targets”. Russian President also called on the journalists, saying “Please inform ...

UWI author political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan was guest to Russia Today. Güzaltan answered the questions and shared his views on the broadcast about the attack in Moscow. Turkish political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan, very well welcome sir, thank you for joining us. We see reports that four of the terrorism suspects were reportedly trained in Türkiye for two months ...

The Chairman of the Vatan Party (Türkiye), Doğu Perinçek made a statement on the terror attack in Moscow, Russia. UWI presents the statement in English translation. Biden is the only one behind the terror in Moscow. For three reasons: First, to push Europe into the Ukrainian war front. Second, to pave the way for Trump’s move to power. Third, perhaps ...

Özgür Altınbaş, foreign news editor of Turkish Aydınlık newspaper, conducted a comprehensive interview with Dr Yauheni Preiherman in Minsk about the Ukraine-Russia war and Turkish-Russian relations. Yauheni Preiherman is the founder and director of the Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations based in Minsk (1). Founded in early 2015, the Council is a think tank which focuses on international affairs ...

On the 26th and 27th of February, the Russian Federation hosted over 500 participants from more than 130 countries in Moscow to challenge Western hegemony in the Second Congress of the International Russophile Movement (MIR). UWI documents in the following days some speeches delivered in the congress. Today we publish the presentation of Ihsan Sefa. Sefa is a retired colonel ...

Türkiye has opposed Western sanctions against Moscow. Bilateral trade grew almost 100% from 2021 to 2022 to $68 billion according to Turkish Ministry of Trade. Turkish companies have investments in construction, textiles and household appliances in Russia, which in turn supplies a large part of the energy consumed by Türkiye. But in December of last year President Biden signed the ...