The Center for National Strategy (USMER) has organized an international conference on the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea on July 18 and 19 in Istanbul, Türkiye. Today, we present the inaugural speech held by Dr. Doğu Perinçek, Chairman of the Vatan Party (Türkiye). Dear Friends, You have come to our conference from seven continents, bringing your states’ resolve for ...
The PKK terrorist organization has begun to disarm following a call from its imprisoned founding leader Abdullah Öcalan. The first disarmament ceremony took place on July 11 in the Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah. A group of PKK members put their weapons into a metal container and set them on fire in a symbolic ceremony. The ceremony, which lasted approximately 20 ...
The Serbian Center for Geostrategic Studies has held an international conference on Church and schisms, the abuse of religion for geopolitical purposes. One of the main topics of the conference was the role that the Patriarch Bartholomew I, whose seat is in Istanbul, Türkiye, plays. Below we document the speech of Dragana Trficovic, the center’s director, as published here. By ...
Tomasz Froelich is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. He also serves on the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Delegation for Relations with Central Asia. Froelich’s party AfD is currently Germany’s main opposition party. Despite the elections being relatively recent, the latest polls show the AfD leading nationally. As ...
The wars waged and supported by the US continue on different fronts. Israel’s attack was repelled by Iran and the US/Israel side was forced to declare a ceasefire. In Gaza, the Palestinian people continue to resist the occupation despite the Israeli genocide. In such a bloody and violent period, the new US Ambassador to Ankara and Special Representative for Syria, ...
As in the rest of the world, Türkiye’s agenda last week was dominated by the outbreak of war between Iran and Israel on June 13. While Turkish officials and political leaders issued a stream of statements on the war, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) also convened an emergency session in Istanbul, taking the escalating conflict as the main agenda. ...
Israel has launched a wave of air strikes on Iran, hitting military leaders, nuclear and military sites overnight on 13th June. Iran retaliated by striking Tel Aviv, Haifa and several military and strategic targets in Israel. The war is tending to escalate further, with no sign of compromise in sight for now. UWI author, historian and political scientist Associate Professor ...
Despite the arrival of summer, Türkiye’s political agenda remained intense last week. The most prominent topic was the ruling party’s efforts for a new constitution. Process that the government’s started with the banner “terror-free Türkiye”, drawing international attention after PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan called on the organization to lay down arms, continues. Last week was also the Eid al-Adha. Political ...
By Halil Özsaraç, (Ret.) Turkish Staff Navy Captain In my previous article, I explained that inland trade routes could be useful only when connected to the sea. Otherwise, thousands of kilometers of land corridors linked end to end would fall short of being profitable trade routes. For this reason, I opposed our Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure becoming a “strategic ...
Lawyers who are members of the Vatan Party have filed a criminal complaint against Fener Greek Patriarch Bartholomew for acting in violation of the law by using the title “Ecumenical Patriarch” in his official activities. In the petition submitted to the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, it was stated that Bartholomew had committed offenses such as “unlawfully assuming a public ...