By Mohammad Reza Moradi, General Director of Mehr News Agency’s Foreign Languages and International News Department, from Tehran / Iran Following the end of the forty-day war between Iran, the United States, and Israel, many believed that the region was entering a new phase in which diplomacy would replace military confrontation. Several months after the ceasefire took effect, Tehran and ...
By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China NATO’s 2026 annual summit concluded in Ankara on July 7–8. Diverging from its predecessors, the summit’s final declaration did not directly target China. Beginning with the 2019 London Declaration and continuing through the 2021 Brussels, 2022 Madrid, and 2023 Vilnius summits, NATO had consistently targeted China, defining it as the alliance’s foremost “systemic ...
How will the balance between hegemonic military power and asymmetric deterrence play out? By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist U.S. President Donald Trump’s political rhetoric—such as “mission accomplished,” “Iran has backed down,” and “victory has been achieved”—which he has been using since the early days of the war, has increasingly come into conflict with the military reality on the ground over ...
A National State Growing Stronger and Undergoing Transformation By Mehmet Enes Beşer, from Tehran / Iran Together with Patriotic Party (Vatan Partisi) Secretary-General Özgür Bursalı, we were in Tehran, the capital of Iran, from 2 to 4 July to attend the funeral of Martyr Ali Khamenei. In addition to the Patriotic Party, the Turkish delegation included senior representatives from several ...
The danger is not collapse. The danger is normalization of stagnation. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Thailand is running out of excuses that even it finds convincing. For years, underperformance could be blamed on bad luck: a weak global cycle, a shock to tourism, a pandemic, an export slowdown. Or it could be framed as a politics problem that would eventually ...
Speech presented at the international conference Philosophy of the Future: Ideas and Meanings”, hosted by Lomonosov Moscow State University in Moscow By Dr. Ali Alsaç On June 26–27, 2026, I participated in the international conference “Philosophy of the Future: Ideas and Meanings”, hosted by Lomonosov Moscow State University in Moscow. The conference brought together scholars, philosophers, political scientists and researchers ...
Millions of Iranians bid farewell to Khamenei By Gürkan Demir from Tehran / Iran At the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Mosque 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 ...
The speech of Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, at the conference on Global Security and NATO. The World Civilizations Initiative Research Center organized an international conference on Global Security and NATO on June 26-27, 2026, in Istanbul, Türkiye, ahead of the NATO summit scheduled for 7 and 8th of July in Ankara. One of the speakers was ...
Speech of Doğan Bekin, MP and Deputy Chairman for New Welfare Party (Türkiye) at the Conference on Global Security and NATO The World Civilizations Initiative Research Center organized an international conference on Global Security and NATO on June 26-27, 2026, in Istanbul, Türkiye, ahead of the NATO summit scheduled for 7 and 8th of July in Ankara. One of the ...
Speech of Angel Georgiev Member of Parliament for the Revival Party in Bulgaria at the conference on Global Security and NATO The World Civilizations Initiative Research Center organized an international conference on Global Security and NATO on June 26-27, 2026, in Istanbul, Türkiye, ahead of the NATO summit scheduled for 7 and 8th of July in Ankara. One of the ...