Vatan Party Chairman Dr Doğu Perinçek commented on the Makkah Agreement submitted to the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (GNAT) during his appearance on Ulusal Kanal’s Çıkış Yolu program. Analyzing the 16-article agreement signed between Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, Perinçek stated that the document had been written in invisible ink in accordance with the interests of Israel and the ...
Is the confrontation around Bab al-Mandeb fundamentally a Yemeni civil war, a Saudi-Yemeni conflict, or a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia? The answer is increasingly all three, but none alone explains the stakes. What began as a struggle over power and territory in Yemen has become a test of regional security, freedom of navigation and the emerging balance ...
By Yiğit Saner The conflict between Yemen’s Ansarullah Movement (Houthis) and the Saudi-led Coalition remains high on the international agenda. Developments unfolding in parallel with the Iran War began this summer when Saudi Arabia struck Sana’a Airport. The rapidly escalating tensions peaked when Ansarullah imposed a blockade on Riyadh in the Red Sea. Reciprocal attacks on strategic facilities, along with ...
Türkiye had another quite busy agenda last week. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan signaled that Türkiye could become involved in the ongoing war in Yemen under the framework of the Mecca Agreement. Another topic on the agenda was a FETÖ investigation on the producers and screenwriters of the popular television series Valley of the Wolves (Kurtlar Vadisi). Another investigation into alleged ...
Since the historic summit between King Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, the alliance between Riyadh and Washington has rested on a well-worn, explicit transactional nexus: oil in exchange for security. Yet the ongoing conflict in Yemen—where the Houthis have systematically brought vast swathes of the country under their control—serves as a resounding declaration that ...
By Azar Mahdavan, from Tehran / Iran The recent advances and victories achieved by Yemen’s Ansarullah forces along the country’s western coast have come as a major and unexpected development for all sides and observers following the strategic shifts currently unfolding in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. These developments could have far-reaching and direct consequences beyond the region. ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer The first test of the Mecca Defense Agreement will be in Yemen. The international press is now asking the same question: What will Türkiye do as the Houthis continue to strike Saudi Arabia? And on the morning of 9 August, the first report of an attack hit the wires. Houthi forces announced that they had struck ...
Strategic Patience or Silent Intervention? By Mehmet Enes Beşer With news of China’s alleged transfer of defense technology and weapons to Yemen, Beijing’s Middle East policy came under renewed questioning. While the specific scale and form of such aid remains unclear, the political ramifications of the news are certain. To others, these moves all add up to a real change ...
Interview with Gürlan Demir, Tehran correspondent of Turkish TV channel Ulusal Kanal. Negotiations between Iran and the US over a possible “nuclear deal” are ongoing, but with no clear end in sight. There is serious discussion about whether military options might come into play. And of course, Israel remains as “unofficial” participant of negotiations. How does Iran view the negotiations ...
As Charles Dickens had written, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. By Onur Sinan Güzaltan The world keeps revolving, Swiftly, relentlessly. And it changes… A brief glance at the past month’s headlines reveals the weight of change and uncertainty. 1. Trump’s new tariffs President Trump declared a new wave of tariffs only on China, ...