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 Erdem İlker Mutlu, professor at the Hacettepe ...

The agenda was busy in Turkey last week. The Antalya Diplomacy Forum was held with wide participation from abroad and domestically. The Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan’s statements regarding foreign policy stood out. On the other hand, Aydınlık newspaper’s report that American diplomats pressured Turkish companies to comply with anti-Russian sanctions made a big impact. Regarding the economy, Minister ...

The AK Party government does not stand up for exporters, industrialists, banks, tourism, fruit and vegetable producers who face threats and pressure from the US authorities. Türkiye will not carry a government that bows down to threats against our relations with Russia, China and Iran, our most important partners in economy and security. No power can prevent Türkiye’s positioning in ...

Sergey Glazyev is considered an important politician and economist in Russia. He is one of the brightest minds the country has brought up in recent years. Glazyev is known for his works on the economic integration of Eurasia and China and the elimination of the global dominance of the US Dollar. I made an interview with him about the Russian-Turkish ...

Russian President Putin’s proposal to establish a gas energy hub in Türkiye is in negotiations between the Russian company Gazprom and Turkish BOTAŞ, state-owned-entreprise responsible for transportation and sale of natural gas. We spoke about the idea of becoming an energy hub with Professor Şenay Yalçın from the Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul. An Yalçın spend his entire academic life researching ...

Türkiye had a busy agenda last week. The meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin topped the agenda. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan’s meetings in Russia and Iran were widely discussed. The development that stirred Türkiye was the national women’s volleyball Team winning the European Championship. Constructive Meeting between Erdoğan and Putin President Erdoğan and Russian ...

On August 7, an explosion occurred in the port of Kocaeli in Türkiye at grain silos, right after the unloading of grain from a cargo arriving from the Russian port of Novorossiysk. Dr Eray Güçlüer says its too early to speak of sabotage, but observes some suspicious moments in the explosion.   At the same time, international diplomacy around the ...

On August 7, an explosion occurred in the harbor of Kocaeli, western Türkiye. The blast, heard over the entire region, took place in grain silos located in the port of Derince. 12 workers were injured. First reporting presented as reason the pressure on grain, which develops certain gases. Investigation is still ongoing. But the Director General of the Turkish Office ...

On his recent summit, NATO has approved new so-called defense plans against Russia. What are the consequences of these for Türkiye’s foreign relations generally and with Russia specifically? How should certain statements from parts of the Turkish government be evaluated? United World International author Mehmet Perinçek elaborated in our interview on these questions. How do you evaluate possible provocations of ...

The Lausanne Treaty was signed on July 24, 1923 between Türkiye and the Allied Powers. The Treaty replaced the earlier Treaty of Sèvres, which had been signed in 1920 after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the World War I but never ratified thanks to the Independence War led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The Treaty signed between the revolutionary ...