Techo International Airport gives Cambodia the hardware. The next test is whether Cambodia can build the software. Techo International Airport is the kind of project Cambodia doesn’t get to build twice. A gateway of this kind, in this day and age, has the potential to change the way the country relates to the region, the way tourism is developed, and ...
Interview with Kadem Özbay, President of the trade union Egitim İş. The fatal shooting of a school principal in Istanbul, attacks on teachers in Şanlıurfa and Kahramanmaraş, and a growing number of incidents involving threats, physical violence and intimidation in educational institutions have reignited a national debate in Türkiye: Why is violence increasingly reaching schools, institutions traditionally regarded as among ...
Ultimately, the key to any permanent peace lies in the “permanent” defeat of the US and Israel, along with their regional proxies. “Trump is ready for a deal…” It’s perhaps the phrase we’ve heard most often recently regarding the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Iran. “Trump is good, but his team is bad…” With the start of Trump’s second term, ...
Opening speech held on the international WAYU congress in Istanbul. By Kayahan Çetin – Chairman of the Youth Union of Türkiye (TGB) 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 the beginning ...
And reactions from both Germany and Türkiye. Germany’s Baden-Württemberg Minister-President Cem Özdemir, who is of Turkish descent (and previously served as Germany’s Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture between 2021 and 2025, and briefly as Federal Minister of Education and Research), stated in a video posted on his X account on June 2 that he used the term “genocide” (Völkermord) ...
Climbing Together By Mehmet Enes Beşer The rise of China up the technological ladder—from mass production at cheap costs to cutting-edge domains such as artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, semiconductors, and renewable energy—is perhaps one of the biggest structural revolutions in global economics. It is happening in conjunction, not in tandem. To Southeast Asian economies deeply embedded in regional and international ...
Posted by by United World International 8 Min Read June 11, 2026 Editorial note: The reported conference was conducted before the recent restart of attacks in the war – UWI. The ceasefire between Iran and the US remains in place for now, but it is still highly fragile. How does Iran view the negotiations? What is it hoping to achieve? ...
Track-2 diplomacy in the shadow of a widening conflict By Dure Akram, from Lahore / Pakistan From the floor of the United Nations Security Council on June 8, 2026, Pakistan’s permanent representative issued an extraordinary warning: “Time for corrective action is rapidly running out.” Asim Iftikhar Ahmad told the Council that Islamabad would not remain silent if armed groups based ...
Beyond “Asia Pivot” By Mehmet Enes Beşer Türkiye’s engagement with ASEAN is too often treated as a diplomatic side quest—interesting, occasionally useful, but ultimately peripheral to the “real” arenas of power politics. That framing is outdated. In a world where tariff wars, industrial policy, sanctions, and geopolitical rivalry are reshaping markets faster than ministries can rewrite talking points, Türkiye cannot ...
Speech of Aliakbar Taheri – Representative of Coalition for Resistance Organization, on the WAYU congress in Istanbul By Aliakbar Taheri – Representative of Coalition for Resistance Organization 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 ...