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Utopian or Dystopian? MENA’s Urban Mega Projects

Middle East
Read: Summits between Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt Signal a New Regional Bloc Dystopian vision: Critics of the urban megaprojects Many critics from different fields have criticized MENA urban megaprojects as dystopian because of the authoritarian nature of regional political structures, the cost of these projects, and the delusional goals set for them.

Saudi Arabia’s War on Drugs and Foreign Influence

Middle East
Habib al-Badawi, a professor at the Lebanese University, told Politics Today: “Geographical location near the Levant and Sarawat Mountains plays a vital role, as Saudi Arabia shares borders with other countries known for drug production or trafficking, such as Yemen and Iraq, while drug farms and factories are in a safe haven on the Lebanon-Syria borders.

Erdoğan Is Undefeatable. But Why?

Turkey
In the smear campaign against Erdoğan, he used to be compared to Iraq's Saddam and now he is compared to Russia's Putin! After the first round of the presidential elections, this too has changed: Newsweek, which had previously described Erdoğan and Putin as two dictators who admire each other, risked contradicting itself by stating, “Stop Calling Erdoğan a Dictator.

How Turkey Neutralizes the PKK and Other Terrorist Targets

Turkey
The operation in Hasaka neutralized Zeki Gürbüz, the so-called Syria officer of the terrorist organization Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP), and Özgür Namoğlu, code-named “Fırat Neval,’’ the organization’s so-called Syrian sabotage officer; the operation in Qamishli neutralized Halil Menci who planned the 2022 Taksim attack; the operation that captured Ramazan Güneş, code-named “Soreş/Soreşger,’’ a member of the organization’s “special forces” who carried out 12 terrorist acts in Turkey, and brought him to Suleymaniye, Iraq; the operation in Sinjar neutralized the terrorist Saad Ali Bedel, code-named “Ceko Pir,’’ the so-called military commander of the PKK-affiliated Sinjar Defense Units (YBŞ); and the operation in Aleppo neutralized Mehmet Yıldırım, code-named “Hamza Kobani,’’ the so-called finance officer of Aleppo and Tel Rifat.