Water Injustice: A Stumbling Block to Palestine’s Social and Economic Growth
UN Report says access to and equitable distribution of water has been a major concern since Israel’s control of the…
Is This the Geopolitical Moment Africa Has Long Anticipated?
In the past, great powers exploited Africans as colonies and pawns, but now the tables have turned—China and Russia are undermining American and European dominance—and African leaders look forward to playing a new version of the great game, this time in a starring role.
Erbil Conference on Normalization with Israel Stirs Debates
The Erbil Conference hosted more than 300 Iraqi delegates, including tribal and religious leaders who called for normalization with Israel.
Crises in Morocco and Tunisia: Is This Really the End of Political Islam?
The Islamists’ recent defeat in Morocco must not be viewed as a crisis in political Islam.
Turkey-Somalia Relations: A Decade of Substantial Strategic Cooperation
More crucially, Turkey has become Somalia’s prime partner in the security sector alongside the European Union mission in Somalia and the United States.
Environmental Activists Killed Exponentially Globally
Read: Coffee Extinction Is Nature’s Way of Telling Us: “Heal the World!”
Murders, Threats, and Much More
According to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, environmental activists struggle to exercise assembly and civil rights around the world.
A Dissident to Lead All Dissidents: The Legacy of Jamal Khashoggi
The European Union and Turkey closely follow the policies of Mohammed bin Salman.
Calling out the UK: Pushbacks of Asylum Seekers Cannot Be Normalized
All around Europe pushbacks take place daily and generally do not meet the slightest outrage from national and European institutions.
Can Turkey’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy Be a Game Changer?
Read: Turkey’s UAV Breakthrough Creates Another Path to MENAIn its National AI Strategy, Turkey laid out six main strategies to be implemented: (i) Training AI experts and increasing employment in the field; (ii) Supporting research, entrepreneurship, and innovation; (iii) Expanding access to quality data and technical infrastructure; (iv) Making arrangements to accelerate socioeconomic adjustment; (v) Strengthening international cooperation; and (vi) Accelerating structural and workforce transformation.
Angela Merkel, The Leader of the Free World?
At the moment, the world consists of a West and an EU that have lost their internal unity, and are suffering from an erosion of moral and value superiority.
Kurdish Mothers Resist the PKK and Fight to Get Their Children Back
The parents whose children managed to escape are happy and relieved, but will not stop protesting until all the children taken by the PKK are reunited with their families.
Five Prominent Challenges for the Taliban
The European Union had already threatened the Taliban with isolation if they seize power.
Mass Shootings in America Are Now Programmed into the System
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If the corporate world can make assault weapons a part of consumption culture, and go so far as to conflate arms ownership with national pride, elevating guns to becoming a definitive symbol of the American “identity,” undoing this formidable milieu is going to take a strong will and a perspicacious strategy.
How Disinformation and Influence Operations Target Turkey
Read: Western Europe: Climate Change as Ideological Smoke-ScreenJones analyzed 160,000 interactions from 46,000 accounts worldwide for the #HelpTurkey hashtag.
Political Shiism and State-Building in Iraq: An Interview with Ali Taher El-Hammood
They were mainly political dissidents living in Iran, Syria, the USA, and European countries.
On Afghanistan and Legitimate Resistance: Should Hamas, Hezbollah Learn from the Taliban?
, Israel and others, to depict their military occupations, unlawful military interventions and repeated wars as fundamental to some imagined global ‘war on terror’ and, as some European intellectual circles prefer to dub it, a war on ‘radical Islam’.
Raisi’s Foreign Policy: Notes on Iran’s New Cabinet
or EU sanctions list.
Realpolitik vs. Idealpolitik: Turkey-Gulf Re-friending after a Decade-Long Rivalry
The Middle East has proven this several times: yesterday’s enemy could be tomorrow’s ally.
The Power Struggle between The Taliban and ISIS-K: What You Need to Know
Reuters Institute of Journalism published a lengthy paper on this topic stating that “ISIS heavily sexualizes females as an object… whereas Taliban portray women in one consistent role.
The Crimean Platform: Winners, Losers, and Bystanders
Then, apparently breaching international protocol, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen declined the invitation under the pretext of tightness of schedule, causing huge dissatisfaction in Kyiv.
