European Neo-Nazis have Missiles. What’s Next?
In the northern city of Turin, a region economically well-off compared to the austerity ridden south, the global media was treated with staggering and unnerving images of missiles and Nazi memorabilia.
Haftar Wants to Drag Turkey into the Libyan Conflict
On June 27, in a surprise attack, the forces allied to the Tripoli government managed to re-take control of Gharyan city, the strategic city in the south of Tripoli, which Haftar militias have used as a platform for their assault.
Ethiopia: Political Reforms, Violence, and Now a Coup d’Etat
Ethnic violence has engulfed the Somali and Oromo states in 2018, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz and Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ State (SNNP) in the last three months.
China Caught Between Nationalism and Multiculturalism
and potential regional crisis in the South China Sea with concerns on economic growth and development, Chinese political elites need a comprehensive and cohesive discourse rather than discriminatory and exclusionary ones – such as nationalism.
Turkey’s Elections Are Not Determined By Identity Politics
A quarter century after the USSR – a state based on enforcing an extremely radical and violent version of those universalist Enlightenment ideals -- disintegrated, is it any wonder that the politics of the various successor states are dominated by nationalism? How much ordem e progresso was achieved by the modernizing military juntas of Central and South America? What about the modernizing elites of Africa’s de-colonizing societies, after taking over the administrative and security institutions already established by the colonizing powers, intoning après nous le déluge in order to obtain weapons and massive development credits from those former colonizers? Did the native administrators – subordinate to the colonizers but lords over their own peoples -- of the South and Southeast Asian British, Dutch, and French colonial empires quickly provide liberté, egalité, fraternité to all of the masses they inherited regardless of caste, gender, ethnicity, or religion? Unfortunately, the vast majority of Westerners have little idea about the details of how these questions have continued to develop over the past century.
The Libya Crisis and the Future of Khalifa Haftar
Haftar, who has absolutely no legitimacy according to the Libyan Political Agreement that was signed in late 2015, which is also supported by all international actors in the Rome Conference, conducted military operations in Benghazi in the years of 2016 and 2017, made illegal military gains in the south in 2018, and despite these was not criticized by actors supporting the LPA or the UN.
A Tale of Two Erdogans: How The West Went Rogue on Turkey
More recent years have seen Turkey expand its economic and cultural connectivity throughout Africa with investment projects and visits by major Turkish officials becoming ever more common from South Africa to Sudan.
Sudan and the Nile Spring: Raptures of Hope and the Uncertain Road Ahead
The regime of Omar Al-Bashir came to an end after 30 years of war (with the South), massacres, unfulfilled promises and a rule with a fist hand.
Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Equation
Moreover, in late February, a consortium of ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum also stated that they discovered 142 to 227 billion cubic meters of gas in so-called Block 10 located in the southwest of the island.
Christian Zionists, Zionists and Authoritarian Regimes in the Middle East: A Bermuda Triangle?
The close alliance of the above-mentioned governments that form a south-bloc with the Christian Zionists and Zionists is worth noting.
The End of the Liberal World?
(The formation of BRICS, including Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a case in point.
Is China Buying Out Africa?
In regard to this, one can assert that the presence of China in Africa is considered in one way or another as the reverberation of its aggressive expansion in the South China Sea territory.
Turkey’s Reliable Diplomacy in the Somalia-Somaliland Talks
The administrative framework that was established to maintain peace and harmony – unlike the southern parts of Somalia – morphed into a political administration seeking independence and self-determination.
Turkey as a Rising Actor in Global Arms Exports
Other regional powers such as Israel, South Korea, and Turkey have also increased their global arms sales.
Radicalization in Egypt May Haunt Europe
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The EU considers Egypt’s stability as a vital dynamic that would create a much safer southern border with the Middle East and North Africa.
Egypt’s Rise in the African Political Landscape: A Regional Power?
Since 2017, Sisi has visited Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Chad, Gabon, and Sudan, while hosting the leaders of South Africa, Congo, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda in Egypt.
Cyprus in the Midst of Shifting Tides in the Mediterranean Gas Competition
In the absence of an EEZ demarcation deal with Athens, Ankara has accused Greece of using its sovereignty over the island of Kastellorizo, located two kilometers south of the Turkish coastal province of Antalya, to usurp a huge chunk of the Eastern Mediterranean and confine Turkey to the Bay of Iskenderun.
China’s Zouchuqu Policy and Turkey-Pakistan Economic Relations
With the completion of the corridor, commercial integration between China, South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East is expected to rise uniquely.
Türkiye Scholarships and the Scope of Turkish Diplomacy
Turkey also began to focus on South America and Africa as a consequence of the developing relations with the two continents.
Türkiye Scholarships in the Global Market of International Students
This mobility is obvious especially in countries such as China, India, and South Korea.
