If We Don’t Sleepwalk into It By Mehmet Enes Beşer “China is opening up” is one of those lines that comes back every few years like a recycled headline. It sounds reassuring on paper. It also sounds vague enough to mean almost anything. For ASEAN, the temptation is to treat it as background noise: China announces, markets react, officials smile ...
Statement of the conference organized by the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center on 26–27 June 2026 in Istanbul, Türkiye. The International Global Security and NATO Conference, organized by the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center, was held on 26–27 June 2026 at the Taşyapı Event Center in Istanbul. In alphabetical order, presentations were delivered by two speakers from the United States, ...
A recent forum in Ankara presented optimistic evaluations, but there are stones on the road ahead. Relations between Türkiye and Central Asian countries are entering a new phase in the energy, trade, and transport sectors. At the Türkiye-Central Asia Forum in Ankara, experts and representatives from the region emphasized that cooperation has not only an economic dimension but also a ...
Tearing off the façade of a “peaceful nation” and making the “defense industry” a pillar of growth strategy By Hiroshi Yoshizawa Ban on export of lethal weapons also lifted On April 21, 2026, the Japanese government revised the “Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology” and their “Operational Guidelines” through a Cabinet decision and the National Security Council ...
The exclusion of Israel and the UAE, and the balance of Suez, the Red Sea, and Hormuz. By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist Through the strategic foresight and vision it has pursued for a long time, Türkiye has been gradually constructing a new strategic architecture between the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean. One of ...
Speech of Tunisian representative at the WAYU congress in Istanbul, Türkiye By Zied Achek – General Union of Tunisian Students (UGET), National Executive Member 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 ...
In the multipolar age, power belongs to countries that can organize complexity—financial channels, standards, skills, supply chains, and diplomacy—into something durable. Türkiye and Malaysia can do that together, but only if they stop treating cooperation as symbolism and start treating it as production. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Ten years back, it was simple to sum up Türkiye–Malaysia relations with diplomatic ...
On Polish President’s decision to revoke medal from Ukraine’s Zelenskyy On 19th July, Polish President Karol Nawrocki announced on X that he revoked the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest state honor, from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The reason behind the decision was the naming of a Ukrainian military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (“Heroes of the UPA”), ...
A historic and geopolitical perspective By Halil Özsaraç – Retired naval staff colonel, naval historian First published in the March 2022 issue of Teori magazine from Türkiye in Turkish, translated into English by UWI I don’t know whether children still fall for such simple tricks. In the past, children who wouldn’t behave were often frightened into obedience by an “imaginary ...
Impressions from a visit to Uzbekistan. For much of the past three decades, Central Asia has been viewed through the prism of geopolitical competition, with major powers seeking influence over a region strategically located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Yet amid this contest for access, markets, resources, and transport corridors, Uzbekistan has increasingly positioned itself ...