By Mehmet Enes Beşer Indonesia’s energy transition isn’t failing because Jakarta lacks ambition. Ambition is easy. Announce a target, pledge a phase-out, attend a summit, repeat the word “green” often enough and the headlines will do the rest. The real constraint is more mundane—and far more damaging: a policy architecture that keeps coal artificially cheap while making renewable projects financially ...
By Yıldıran Acar, Political Scientist As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its fifth year, the European security architecture is undergoing its most comprehensive transformation since the end of the Cold War. One of the latest stages of this transformation was the NATO Summit of Heads of State and Government held in Ankara. Whilst Western countries assessed the summit primarily in the ...
By Mustafa Ilker Yücel, from Tehran / Iran For Iran’s martyred leader Ali Khamenei and members of his family, who lost their lives in the US and Israeli attacks, the funeral prayer was held on July 5 at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Mosque in Tehran. After the religious ceremony at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Mosque was completed, another official farewell ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer ASEAN has never been short on meetings. What it’s been short on—especially when the region is tense—is machinery that moves faster than the next crisis. In 2026, the Philippines takes the chair at a moment when the big-ticket issues (Myanmar, the South China Sea, border tensions) are already crowding the agenda. That’s exactly why Manila should ...
The recent NATO summit in Ankara, Türkiye, has been debated from various angles, from increased military spending to transatlantic relations. Prof. Erdem Ilker Mutlu takes a different approach. Mutlu is an expert on international law at the Hacettepe University in Ankara. His main thesis: In order to maintain its raison d’etre, NATO exceeds institutional competences and pretends to take over ...
United World International author Dr. Mehmet Perinçek gave an interview to the Azerbaijani website Demokrat.az on the Ukraine and Iran wars, the recent NATO summit in Ankara, and the Turkic world. We have translated the interview, originally published in Azerbaijani Turkish, into English for you: Mr. Perinçek, how would you assess the final picture of the Russia-Ukraine war over the ...
By Sevim Dagdelen * At the NATO summit in Ankara on July 7 and 8, 2026, the military alliance set out to thoroughly discredit the myth of a community of values and defense. While Turkish President Erdoğan had hundreds of academics and journalists arrested beforehand to preemptively suppress protests against the military alliance’s meeting, NATO Secretary General Rutte described the ...
Last week was an eventful week in Türkiye. The NATO Summit held in Ankara topped the agenda. After the summit, claims that S-400 air defense systems Türkiye purchased from Russia would be sold to another country became a main topic of discussion. On the 10th anniversary of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt., the country saw renewed investigations into FETÖ ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer The Mekong River is once again discovering that growth and stability are not the same. It is possible for there to be factories running at full capacity, new highways being built, and new investors arriving, while simultaneously the ground beneath politics and public trust is quietly shifting. This is why 2025 felt so paradoxical: increased cooperation ...
One of the key moments of the July 7–8 NATO Summit was the meeting between Erdoğan and Trump. CAATSA sanctions, S-400, the F-35, KAAN: intertwined quartet in Türkiye-US military relations During the meeting, Trump struck a positive tone on lifting the CAATSA sanctions imposed by the US on Türkiye and on Türkiye’s possible return to the F-35 program. These two ...