By Ethem Sancak, Deputy Chairman of Vatan Party (Türkiye) The international conference entitled “The Alliance to Prevent a Great War,” organized by the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center, was held at the Meyra Palace Hotel in Ankara on 18–19 July 2026. UWI will present the speeches held on the conference during the coming days. The conference, which featured presentations by ...

A few days ago, at Al-Safa Palace in Mecca, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed a document titled the “Mecca Joint Defense Agreement.” Its core clause stipulates that an armed attack on any of the three signatory states is deemed an attack on them all—a formulation that, according ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer As the long-running trade dispute between the United States and the People’s Republic of China develops into a complex phenomenon that has ramifications for international markets, Southeast Asia is one of the regions affected most significantly. With Southeast Asia playing a significant role in international trade, as the main economic agents of the region increase tariffs ...

Note: The following lines are an excerpt from a book in progress in which I recount some of the vicissitudes of my life. In this instance, I reveal for the first time the details of my first personal encounter with Fidel. I had been with him as part of the group preparing to travel to Nicaragua to join that country’s ...

By Habip Eksik, Member of Turkish Parliament (27th Term) The international conference entitled “The Alliance to Prevent a Great War,” organized by the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center, was held at the Meyra Palace Hotel in Ankara on 18–19 July 2026. UWI will present the speeches held on the conference during the coming days. The conference, which featured presentations by ...

By Mohammad Reza Moradi, General Director of Mehr News Agency’s Foreign Languages and International News Department, from Tehran / Iran For more than three decades, the U.S. military presence in the Middle East has rested on a relatively simple premise: Arab states, particularly those in the Gulf, would outsource part of their security to an external power, while Washington would ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer A crisis of energy production, availability, and pricing in the Philippines will not amount to a mere economic disruption. In a country where electricity prices affect household well-being, industry profitability, and governmental commitment, shortages, rising prices, and blackouts serve as a kind of political stress test. Their impact comes from the very immediacy of electricity as ...

By Dure Akram For quite some time, a sequence of images has begun to define South Asian politics. Young Sri Lankans wandering through a presidential residence that had once seemed untouchable. Bangladeshi students carrying coffins through Dhaka after their classmates were killed. Teenagers in Kathmandu filming themselves outside parliament while a government tried to shut down the very social-media platforms ...

By Prof. Dr. Semih Koray, President of the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center (DÜNYA-MER) The international conference entitled “The Alliance to Prevent a Great War,” organized by the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center, was held at the Meyra Palace Hotel in Ankara on 18–19 July 2026. UWI will present the speeches held on the conference during the coming days. The ...

Teori, monthly theoretical political, geopolitics and international relations analysis magazine from Türkiye, spoke with Pierre Duval, a French journalist, political analyst and contributor to Observateur Continental, about the state of the European economy, US-EU relations, the US-Israeli attack on Iran, the difficulties of Europe’s turn towards Asia and the future of Europe. The interview was conducted for Teori by Ali ...