A brief reminder: The Republic of South Africa appealed to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to condemn Israel for its genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza. On January 26, the Court, which convened on January 11, did not call for the ceasefire requested by South Africa, but based on the “urgent” humanitarian situation,
Everyone in the West, from NATO to the European Union, from Biden to Scholz, is praising Ukraine’s heroic resistance against Russia as the war enters its third year, adding new ones to the unfulfilled promises of weapons and money. But things are not getting any better on the military front. It is widely expected that
Ersin Tatar, President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, said that from now on they will not sit at the table for any agreement that does not envisage the “sovereign equality” of the Turkish Cypriot people. Stating that there cannot be a “Cyprus crisis” as claimed and that they do not rise to the
There is a noteworthy yet seldom-discussed issue in Türkiye these days. Turkish Ministry of National Education had the removed Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution from the national education curriculum some years ago. Now, they announced the inclusion of the so-called “theory of creationism” into the new term’s schedule. For approximately seven years, the theory of
President Tayyip Erdogan’s meeting with US Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Chris Murphy at the Presidential Palace on February 20 should not go unnoticed. The meeting was attended by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and US Ambassador to Ankara Jeff Flake. It was learned that Chris Van Hollen, a prominent figure in the Greek lobby in the
Türkiye has declared its full support for a peace agreement to be signed between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The latest chapter in this intense diplomatic process, which involved Türkiye and some European countries including Germany, came on February 19 when President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Ankara. “The signing of a lasting
Former Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu returned to the public sphere 100 days after losing his seat to Özgür Özel, hinting his return to active politics. Visiting small businesses in the OSTIM Industrial Site in Ankara, the previous leader of the main opposition party quoted former President Süleyman Demirel and said: “politics has
This question has been puzzling me since the day it first emerged. (*) The organization, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group. Its origins lay in the Cey’ish al-Taifa al-Mansurah organization,
Apart from the impulse to get out of the economic crisis, what other force, do you think, could have made President Tayyip Erdoğan visit Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, with whom he had frozen relations calling him a “coup plotter”, and send him messages of friendship and cooperation? And don’t say for the sake of
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is expected to visit the capital of Egypt, Cairo, on February 14, marking his first visit after 13 years of hiatus. The relationship between Türkiye and Egypt, located at the northern and southern ends of the Eastern Mediterranean, has always been significant for regional peace and stability. A brief look at