Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will soon pass ten months. This event not only disrupted the existing order in Europe set since the Second World War, but also caused global shocks. While the effectiveness of the United Nations and similar organizations established after 1945 had been questioned for a long time, this war launched by a
European Commission’s 2022 Turkey observation report entered Turkey’s agenda and exited almost at the same time it was published, mainly because it carves the contentious issues in the EU’s favour and the righteous determinations and criticism of the report get to be officially ignored. While the penultimate statement in the report that “Turkey is a
The issue of Syrian refugees returning to their home country from Türkiye has become the second hot electoral topic after the economic crisis. The public discussion came to a point that recent polls indicate Ümit Özdağ’s Victory Party, the real promise of which is to send the Syrians to Syria immediately, gaining 3 percent of
The 8th sanctions package against Russia that will most likely be accepted at the European Union Leader’s Prague summit on October 6 includes certain provisions that would profoundly affect the Turkish economy. New measures stipulate a new listing of individuals and further restrictions on trade such as an import ban on Russian “steel products, wood