On March 26, a Turkish-operated oil tanker named Altura was attacked in the Black Sea. Türkiye’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu made a statement, saying “A foreign-flagged ship operated by a Turkish company, which had loaded crude oil from Russia, reported an explosion in its engine room after midnight to our emergency call center. We believe that the ...
On March 8th, the people of the world dealt Trump three resounding defeats on a battlefield he doesn’t believe in: the battlefield of democracy. In Iran, Colombia, and Venezuela, on International Women’s Day, in different situations and in different ways, anti-democracy and fascism suffered crushing defeats that express the global rejection of Washington’s absolutist and imperialist practices. Iran: Smooth election ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer With the “America First” rhetoric back on the world stage, an old unease has come back to global institutions. At its core, this slogan promotes a transactional, zero-sum approach to world affairs—one where one power’s national interest takes precedence over collective responsibility. For the majority of nations in the Global South, this vision is less an ...
From Athens / Greece US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio called in his speech in the Munich Security Conference to “revive the Western Civilization”. Amid the war in West Asia, western countries are mounting up their military deployment to the Eastern Mediterranean, while tensions are increasing between Greece and Türkiye over the positioning of air defenses on some Greek islands. ...
Imagine a world in which a political leader faces serious public controversies about his past associations yet continues to present himself as a moral authority on democracy and global order. Around the world, people question the gap between rhetoric and responsibility. The name at the center of many of these debates is Donald Trump. For critics, the issue is not ...
The United States has deliberately incited a war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran’s reactions following the US assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamanei came as no surprise to Washington. Contrary to what some argue, I do not share the idea that the US was expecting a “regime collapse” in Iran following the assassination. One does not need deep ...
By Dr. Halim Gençoğlu It is not surprising that Indian Prime Minister Modi was welcomed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport on February 25, 2026, as part of a two-day program that included his historic speech to the Israeli Parliament and a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. The most striking element of the visit was ...
Cem Gürdeniz, a retired Rear Admiral of the Turkish Navy and one of the coiners of the term “Blue Homeland” (Mavi Vatan) shared his views on the war between Iran and US-Israel on the social platform X. Focusing mainly on military and geopolitical aspects, Gürdeniz offers a trajectory analysis of the war. We present Gürdeniz’s analysis, translated into English. — ...
The moment of truth has arrived. The voices of diplomacy are no longer heard, and the sounds of gunfire drown out all others. President Donald Trump is living in a state of euphoria after his success in assassinating Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and some of his commanders. Neighboring countries have found themselves in the eye of the storm in ...
By Dr. Halim Gençoğlu This article evaluates the claims allegedly expressed by some Western, particularly American, academics and commentators at the International Munich Peace Conference dated February 2026—such as “colonialism was normal back then, we are not ashamed of our past”—within the framework of the historical, ethical, and epistemic dimensions of the decolonization process. In this vein, through concrete cases ...
By Shahab Nouranifar, Director of the Iraq and Syria Desk, Mersad Center for International Studies – Iran On January 27, Donald Trump, the President of the United States, published a tweet opposing Nouri al-Maliki’s candidacy for the office of prime minister. In a clear act of interference in Iraq’s internal affairs, he stated: “I have heard that great Iraq may ...
UWI writer and political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan discussed the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa in Moscow on January 28, as well as the US-Russia-Ukraine talks, on Ulusal Kanal Television. The interview, conducted in Turkish, has been translated into English by UWI. What does al-Sharaa’s visit to Russia mean at a time when ...