By Yunus Soner On November 21, The United States announced applying sanctions against the Russian Gazprombank, an entity until today excepted from Washington’s pressure. Why is the Gazprombank important? What role does it play it the Turkish-Russian relations? And even further than that, for European countries? And how can the affected countries react to it. We asked these questions to ...
By Ihsan Sefa (retired colonel, Turkish Armed Forces) The situation in the Turkish economy in recent years is far from ideal. According to the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye, inflation in August was 51.97 percent compared to August last year. Why is our economy in trouble? Türkiye is not characterized by a wealth of natural resources – a ...
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 ...
The Russian Ministry of Defense declared that on May 24, Ukrainian forces had attacked a Russian military vessel in the Black Sea. According to the statement, three unmanned high-speed boats attacked the Russian ship Ivan Khurs. The ship foiled the attack. The Ministry said the ship’s mission was to protect the TurkStream and BlueStream pipelines. We started our interview with ...
The Serbian Center for Geostrategic Studies organized an international conference on the sabotage against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Speakers from the USA, Germany, France, Switzerland, Poland participated in the conference. United World International author Yunus Soner made a presentation, comparing the risks for energy ties across the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. Based on US documents, Soner emphasized ...
United World International author Mehmet Perinçek elaborated on the question whether “the US can target the TurkStream after the Nord Stream?” to the Russian newspaper Vzglyad. We present the article including Mehmet Perinçek’s comment, published in Russian, to our readers translated into English. Gas pipelines running from Russia to Türkiye may repeat the fate of Nord Stream. Fears about this ...
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 ...
By Kutalmis Gurbuz * As a result of the explosions, the Nord Stream 1&2 pipelines that stretch all the way from Russia to Germany got out of service permanently. Both Russia and the European governments announced that sabotages had occurred on the pipelines. The pipelines, construction cost more than 10 billion Euros each, were damaged seriously. German officials stated that ...
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 ...