On both sides’ perspective on each other By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China NATO will hold its annual summit in Ankara next month. Founded during the Cold War era to counter the Soviet Bloc, the organization aimed to fight communism externally and to control European countries internally by the USA. Despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union (even though ...
Interview to Sputnik Türkiye The open letter sent by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Russian President Vladimir Putin, along with Putin’s response, has drawn international attention. In an interview with Sputnik Türkiye, Associate Professor Mehmet Perinçek discussed the obstacles standing in the way of the peace process, Türkiye’s potential role, and the ongoing debate over Zelenskyy’s legitimacy. Zelenskyy’s letter came shortly after ...
Reimagining Development By Mehmet Enes Beşer Development assistance to Southeast Asia has long come from the Global North: bilateral donors, international financial institutions, and multilateral organizations molding the region’s infrastructure, health systems, and governance framework. Although such assistance at times has delivered spectacular success it has also imposed a price: agendas of donors, unpredictable commitments, and conditionality that restrict policy ...
The U.S.-centered order that shaped the region’s security architecture for decades is facing mounting challenges, and an increasing number of regional actors have concluded that sustainable security cannot be imported from abroad. By Mohammad Reza Moradi, General Director of Mehr News Agency’s Foreign Languages and International News Department, from Tehran / Iran Recent developments in West Asia indicate that the ...
How is Türkiye gradually increasing its influence in the new global order? By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist Türkiye has risen to become one of the most influential actors in the globally reshaping geopolitical order, particularly in recent times—both through its success in its strategy to eradicate the scourge of terrorism, which the West has inflicted upon it for half a ...
A Türkiye–Russia–China–Iran entente matters due to combining different types of influence which are rare to find in one construct. By Mehmet Enes Beşer An alliance of Türkiye, Russia, China, and Iran (TRCI) is usually seen as mere rhetoric or as an idealistic pipe dream—an “anti-West bloc” concept that oversimplifies the complex geopolitical reality. At the same time, there is nothing ...
On Russian President Vladimir Putin’s three-day official visit to Kazakhstan. By Yıldıran Acar, Political Scientist Some diplomatic visits are part of the daily news cycle; they are discussed for a few days and then forgotten. Others, however, provide the first signs of political developments that will emerge in the future. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s three-day official visit to Kazakhstan at ...
State-owned Qatar Energy is a key player. Here are some of its recent steps. Since the discovery of natural gas began in the deepwater basins of the Eastern Mediterranean—off the coasts of Egypt, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel, and Türkiye—it has generated a great deal of enthusiasm that extends far beyond the littoral states. These states represent the actual owners of these ...
The article of Doğu Perinçek, Chairman of Vatan Party, on NATO’s clandestine organizations within member states, from Türkiye to Italy and others. The 2026 NATO Summit will be held on 7 and 8 July 2026 at the Beştepe Presidential Compound (Külliye) in Ankara. As NATO heads into the 2026 summit, we have prepared a special dossier that revisits Türkiye’s long ...
Both their pride in China’s success and their active involvement with Malaysia’s public space and an acute sense of their own distinctive space in it exist together. By Mehmet Enes Beşer China’s rapid emergence on the world scene has been the pride of much of the diasporic Chinese population. Within Malaysia, with its ethnic Chinese constituting around a quarter of ...