Federation framework, renewed Annan Plan, encirclement of Anatolia from the south Victor Papadopoulos, Director of the Press Office of the President of the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus (GCASC), said on July 21 that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “has a plan and a roadmap to break the deadlock and reach a solution” on Cyprus. He added that the coming ...
The country should not rely solely on foreign lenders, top-down policy directives, or the tricks of central banks. Instead, recovery should come from within, starting with a re-evaluation of the political and policy choices behind the economic crisis. By Mehmet Enes Beşer While being the most developed middle-income economy in South Asia, Sri Lanka is a political cautionary tale about ...
If We Don’t Sleepwalk into It By Mehmet Enes Beşer “China is opening up” is one of those lines that comes back every few years like a recycled headline. It sounds reassuring on paper. It also sounds vague enough to mean almost anything. For ASEAN, the temptation is to treat it as background noise: China announces, markets react, officials smile ...
Statement of the conference organized by the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center on 26–27 June 2026 in Istanbul, Türkiye. The International Global Security and NATO Conference, organized by the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center, was held on 26–27 June 2026 at the Taşyapı Event Center in Istanbul. In alphabetical order, presentations were delivered by two speakers from the United States, ...
A recent forum in Ankara presented optimistic evaluations, but there are stones on the road ahead. Relations between Türkiye and Central Asian countries are entering a new phase in the energy, trade, and transport sectors. At the Türkiye-Central Asia Forum in Ankara, experts and representatives from the region emphasized that cooperation has not only an economic dimension but also a ...
Tearing off the façade of a “peaceful nation” and making the “defense industry” a pillar of growth strategy By Hiroshi Yoshizawa Ban on export of lethal weapons also lifted On April 21, 2026, the Japanese government revised the “Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology” and their “Operational Guidelines” through a Cabinet decision and the National Security Council ...
The exclusion of Israel and the UAE, and the balance of Suez, the Red Sea, and Hormuz. By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist Through the strategic foresight and vision it has pursued for a long time, Türkiye has been gradually constructing a new strategic architecture between the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean. One of ...
Speech of Tunisian representative at the WAYU congress in Istanbul, Türkiye By Zied Achek – General Union of Tunisian Students (UGET), National Executive Member May 19th, 1919, is the date Mustafa Kemal Atatürk arrived in the northern Turkish city of Samsun to start the armed struggle against the imperialist occupation of Türkiye and its collaborators. The date is considered as ...
In the multipolar age, power belongs to countries that can organize complexity—financial channels, standards, skills, supply chains, and diplomacy—into something durable. Türkiye and Malaysia can do that together, but only if they stop treating cooperation as symbolism and start treating it as production. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Ten years back, it was simple to sum up Türkiye–Malaysia relations with diplomatic ...
On Polish President’s decision to revoke medal from Ukraine’s Zelenskyy On 19th July, Polish President Karol Nawrocki announced on X that he revoked the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest state honor, from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The reason behind the decision was the naming of a Ukrainian military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (“Heroes of the UPA”), ...