It seems that difficult mediation roles are becoming attractive to the Gulf countries. Two months ago, Qatar succeeded in resolving the stalemate in relations between Türkiye and Egypt by arranging the impossible handshake between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi prior to the opening of the World Cup finals held on its soil. This constituted a ...
By Nahed al Huseini reporting from Damascus / Syria The year 2023 began with an important diplomatic turn. After 11 years of interrupted diplomatic relations, defense ministers of Türkiye and Syria came together in a trilateral meeting in Moscow. Speaking to United World International, Syrian Member of Parliament, Dr. Nabil Toumeh said if conducted with “mutual understanding and respect, these ...
In the neighborhood of Strasbourg Saint Denis in Paris, is also referred to as the “Little Istanbul”, an attack was conducted on a street where also one of the PKK center is located. 3 people were dead including some PKK members, while 3 more were injured. The culprit of the attack, a French citizen named William M., was caught by ...
Today we present the third and last part of our interview with Prof. Dr. Mehmet Yuva. In this part, Yuva speaks about the vision of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, for Türkiye and Syria. Especially in your recent writings and speeches, you refer to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s plan for a regional confederation including Türkiye and Syria. ...
The public agenda in Turkey has been quite busy last week. An extensive air strike campaign is still ongoing by the Turkish Armed Forces against the US-backed PKK terrorist organization targets in northern Syria and Iraq. And a possible ground support for the operation is now on agenda in Türkiye. Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), made ...
Today we publish the second part of the interview with Prof. Dr. Mehmet Yuva, who worked for a long time in the department of history at Damascus University, where he lectured on the history of the US and modern history. Yuva also taught modern history of Cyprus, Türkiye and Syria in the graduate program of the same university. He took ...
After having been hostile since 2011, Syria-Türkiye relations seem to be back on the path to recovery. For some time, there have been signs from Turkish government officials that relations with Syria could be restored. Erdoğan himself had acknowledged the dialogue between Turkish and Syrian intelligence organizations during a visit to Sochi on August 5. And most recently, Erdoğan made ...
The public agenda in Turkiye has been busy with three main topics last week. The first was the meeting that was held between the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, in the opening ceremony of the Qatar World Cup 2022. Second was the ongoing debates on a possible diplomatic meeting between Erdogan and his ...
United World International author Mehmet Perinçek gave an interview to the Russian RIA Novosti news agency about the air operation of the Turkish Armed Forces in northern Syria and Iraq. We present the interview, published in Russian, to our readers translated into English. The air operation of the Turkish Armed Forces in northern Syria and Iraq was directed not only ...
By Said Ali Batrouni * With a significant shift in Türkiye’s strategy toward the Assad regime in Syria, where he has been insisting on regime change, Erdogan stated that Türkiye’s goal in Syria is to find a political solution to the country’s decade-long civil war, rather than defeating Assad. Ankara’s recent statement that it is willing to normalize relations with ...