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The New Great Game: Rare Earth Elements and Turkish Position

My generation learned about energy geopolitics through oil. We witnessed oil wars, embargoes, tanker crises, the political power of OPEC,…

2 months ago

Erdoğan’s Look at Putin and Putin’s Look at Erdoğan

The photos taken during Erdoğan's meeting with Putin at the Shanghai Summit reveal a lot about Turkey-Russia relations and, beyond…

3 months ago

European Commission’s Türkiye report: rest in peace

On October 30th, the European Commission published its annual report assessing the candidate countries' progress over the last year. Türkiye…

1 year ago

Türkiye’s BRICS Bid: Why is Erdoğan’s visit being kept under wraps?

I was at the National Day reception at the Chinese Embassy in Ankara when Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Öncü Keçeli made…

1 year ago

Erdoğan’s Israel threat, Israel’s Saddam audacity

First and foremost, we must not leave unaddressed the audacity of Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz, who suggested that President…

1 year ago

Does Türkiye want to join BRICS? Fidan’s critical China visit explained

What put Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan's trip to China on the global agenda was neither Türkiye's desire to attract investment…

1 year ago

The new mineral frontier: Türkiye’s role may change in the REE supply chain

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan's visit to China from June 3-5 encompassed not only political discussions on issues such as Palestine,…

1 year ago

Energy wars with Russia are heating up

Very early this morning, I talked to the Dubai-based Gulf Intelligence, one of the world's leading energy think tanks, about…

2 years ago

Is the US adapting its “containment” strategy over Russia and China?

It would be a geostrategic fallacy to see US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's November 2-10 tour of the Middle…

2 years ago

China: “If we won’t stop the USA, small countries can’t”

 “China is a great, powerful state,” emphasizes China's Ankara Embassy Charge d'affaires Cheng Weihua - 程卫华. “How can smaller, weaker…

3 years ago