It is true that widespread poverty leaves millions of people impoverished; economic inequality and weak political structures trigger ethno-religious conflicts and violence between the Christian dominated South and the Muslim dominated North; epidemic corruption wipes out the country's development; and the poor education system fails to transform northern Nigeria through the education of new generations.
Iran and the YPG: Friends or Foes?
But these claims, namely supporting the SDF in northeast Syria as a tool against Iran, are problematic.
What to Expect for the Turkish Economy in 2018
Speculative movements caused by the increased regional risks during the northern Iraq referendum process, fabricated news suggesting that some European banks will stop lending to Turkey, the visa crisis with the U.
French Mayor bans “anti-republican” meals
As of Monday 15 January, Mayor of Beaucaire – a town in the south of France – Julien Sanchez, and…
Diplomacy to Compensate International Inequality: UN Jerusalem Vote
Unlike the United States, the European Union neighbors the Islamic world through the Middle East and North Africa, and therefore the bloc tends to refrain from taking steps that would lead to a crisis in current relations.
World outraged by Trump’s Jerusalem decision
Protests have spread to a number of Muslim countries in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and East Asia.
From Balfour to the Nakba: Zionist Settler Colonialism
In some cases, the ‘logic of the elimination of the native’ as the main response to this clash indeed ended in physical elimination of the native – as can be seen from the genocides of the native Americans in north, central and south America and that of the aboriginals in Australia.
Turkey and the UAE: Economic Allies but Regional Competitors?
It supports the self-declared state of Somaliland that competes with Mogadishu for control over the strategic north of the country, which oversees the Gulf of Aden.
The End of Eurocentrism?
Meanwhile, China and its proxy North Korea have become the new “other” of the US in this new era.
Do Separatist Movements gain Ground in World Politics?
For example, the Catalonia and Bask autonomous regions in Spain, Wallonia in Belgium, Quebec in Canada, Scotland and Wales in the UK, Trentino-Alto Adige in Northern Italy and four cities with a high Roma population in Hungary are some of the examples.
The United Nations in an Age of Transition I: World Order and Realpolitik
Illegal “humanitarian” interventions, carried out in the name of human rights, democracy and the rule of law, had profoundly negative results on the international order in several major respects:
They triggered a process of destabilization in major global regions, in particular in the Middle East and North Africa.
The Customs Union agreement between Turkey and EU to be discussed in December
Our second biggest markets are the Middle East and North Africa.
Turkey’s threefold fight against FETO, DAESH, and the PKK continues
Security officials confirmed that Turkish police have arrested at least 61 Daesh-linked terror suspects in eastern Erzurum and northwestern Bursa provinces on Sunday.
The Strategic Value of UCAVs for Turkey
For instance, France announced that it would arm UAVs procured from the US until 2019, with the purpose of using them in West Africa.
The New Silk Route: Turkey’s Pivot to Asia by “One Belt, One Road”
As the Chinese government proposed the new Silk Road initiatives, both countries have decided to deepen such an economic cooperation despite the ongoing problems considering the separatist cause of ethnically Turkic Muslim Uyghurs in China’s restive north-western province of Xinjiang.
Shockwaves of the Syrian Conflict in Europe: The Price of Standing Aside
Although Middle Eastern and North African states were regarded as authoritarian, at least, they had been stable dictatorships where people who were not involved in politics had decent lives.
Between Anger and Sympathy: European and North American Foreign Fighters in the YPG
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DAESH’s barbarism deserves a great deal of anger, yet it takes more than anger to leave your home in Europe or North America and take a long journey to join the YPG.
Will Turkey’s “Citizenship Through Investment” Program Contribute to the Economy?
It is interesting that more than 20% of the real estate in Spain was sold to citizens of Northern Africa and Arab countries.
World’s New Financial Hub: Istanbul
On the axis of changing foreign policy priorities, relations developed with the Balkans, the Middle East, North Africa and the Caucasus have brought Istanbul into a position where capital movements are driven by economic interests.
How Women are De-Humanized
” At this point, a question must be asked: Why, then, are the numbers of crimes against women on the rise in societies which are sexually free? Why are more than 200,000 women in France subjected to violence, abuse and rape? Why are Northern European countries like Denmark and Sweden leading in the numbers of these crimes, even though they are considered countries which achieved male-female equality to a greater extent according to the World Bank’s 2016 data?
In Marilyn Monroe’s Fragments, a compilation of her intimate notes, poems and some letters, there’s a letter of Monroe to the psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson: “They invented a character for me and I didn’t have the strength to stand against them.