The public agenda in Türkiye had been busy last week. A broad debate occurred on the Turkish Treasury and Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati’s statement that they have been developing relations between Türkiye and Russia and with many other Eurasian countries. Another topic was the statement of Turkish officials about the establishment of a joint gas hub together with Russia. The ...
The public agenda in Türkiye last week had three main subjects. Entire nation was struck when it was reported that a mineshaft explosion killed 41 miners in the northern province of Bartin. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent statements on making Türkiye a regional energy hub were welcomed by many Turkish officials including President Erdogan. The National Amputee Football Team has ...
United World International expert Mehmet Perinçek gave an interview to the newspaper “Caspy” about the suspension of the Mir payment system in Türkiye. We present the interview, which was published in Russian, to our readers translated into English. ————————- The Mir payment system is losing partners due to the risks of secondary sanctions announced last week by the US Treasury ...
US media reports that up to hundreds of pounds of TNT equivalent explosives were used to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline. The actual destruction of Europe’s critical energy infrastructure raises more and more questions. On September 26, damages to the gas pipelines Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 became public. The pipeline was shut down at the time of the ...
United World International expert Onur Sinan Guzaltan evaluated Turkish-Russian relations, the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline and the future of the war in Ukraine in a Russia Today broadcast. Stating that the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline was organized by the USA, Guzaltan drew attention to the possibility of similar attempts of attack against the TurkStream in the ...
There are actually two sides of the same coin… On one side, there is Türkiye that has become a vital artery for Russia, which is going through political and economic bottlenecks after the Western sanctions. On the other side there is Russia, which has become a gateway for Türkiye, as it drifts away from the West and tries to overcome ...
Recently, a website created by the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine (www.sanctions.nazk.gov.ua) revealed that sanctions were demanded upon the international community against Turkish state-owned and private-owned banks operating in Russia, their CEOs and other businesspeople. The website listed of the CEOs of Ziraat Bank, IsBank, Denizbank and Credit Europe Bank, alongside their mug shots and home addresses. The US chooses, Kiev ...
Doğu Perinçek, the Chairman of the Vatan Party (Patriotic Party), addressed the State leaders of the Russian Federation and the youth of Russia at the opening meeting of Russia’s new school year, held in Moscow on September 1, 2022. Perinçek gave a 45-minute opening speech on Türkiye-Russia relations at the traditional meeting held every year at the opening of the ...
Last week, the public agenda in Türkiye discussed the announcements made after the meeting between the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Sochi; the alleged possibility of a diplomatic meeting between Erdogan and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad by the Turkish-government affiliated Türkiye Newspaper; and the recent tensions with Greece. Erdogan spoke after the Sochi ...
At present, pessimistic approaches base themselves on the hearsay that “Russia will land in the warm waters” in order to reject Turkish-Russian friendly relations in Syria, Libya and the eastern Mediterranean. In fact, the question of accessing the “warm waters” goes back to Russia’s search for a ‘non-freezing harbor’, which started as early as the 18th century. At that time, ...