Etiket arşivi: Turkish foreign policy

UNGA 80 and Türkiye’s Agenda

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September 22, 2025

This morning, the UN General Assembly begins its “High-level Week 2025” with a meeting to mark the 80th anniversary of the UN. Later in the day, the UN will resume the High-Level International Conference for the “Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution,” co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia. The conference aims to reaffirm international commitments to the two-state solution and seek support for its implementation. From September 22 to 30, world leaders will address global issues during the General Debate.

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Türkiye Faced with Multiple Challenges

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September 15, 2025

Neither the word “shocking” nor any of its synonyms, such as “appalling” or “distressing”, can properly describe the latest political developments in Türkiye. The İstanbul province has a Metropolitan Municipality and 39 county municipalities. In the March 2024 municipal elections, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) won the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality and 26 county municipalities, whereas the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) won only 13.

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China’s Quest for a New World Order

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September 8, 2025

Last week, with some thirty world leaders, President Xi Jinping once again took the global center stage to reaffirm China’s position as a global power and its determination to challenge the US-dominated world order.

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The Contradiction Between Trump’s Policies in Ukraine and Gaza

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August 25, 2025

In an article published in The New York Times on March 13, 2014, John J. Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, explained the background of the Ukraine conflict as follows:

“…The taproot of the current crisis is NATO expansion and Washington’s commitment to move Ukraine out of Moscow’s orbit and integrate it into the West. The Russians have intensely disliked but tolerated substantial NATO expansion, including the accession of Poland and the Baltic countries. But when NATO announced in 2008 that Georgia and Ukraine “will become members of NATO,” Russia drew a line in the sand. Georgia and Ukraine are not just states in Russia’s neighborhood; they are on its doorstep. Indeed, Russia’s forceful response in its August 2008 war with Georgia was driven in large part by Moscow’s desire to prevent Georgia from joining NATO and integrating into the West…”[i]

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Defining Days for Ukraine and Russia-West Relations

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August 19, 2025

Over the past month, the world has remained focused on what was likely to prove the climactic episode of the Russia-Ukraine war.

In early July, President Donald Trump issued his harshest criticism of President Putin, stating that Washington was restarting its arms shipments to Ukraine to respond to Russian attacks on civilians. In the following days, he said, “We’re very unhappy with Russia and we’ll be doing very severe tariffs, at about 100%.” Then, Mr. Trump gave Russia a 50-day deadline for a ceasefire.

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The Two-State Solution Remains an Illusion

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July 28, 2025

Last Tuesday, July 22, Mr. Jean-Noël Barrot, French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, in response to a question about his “virulent earlier reaction to the new ground offensive in Gaza”, said that France utterly condemns it and calls for an immediate ceasefire, the release of all the hostages held by Hamas, a Hamas that must be disarmed, and the completely unimpeded entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza. He criticized the Israeli Government’s militarized system of food distribution that has caused the deaths of nearly 1,000 civilians in the past few weeks.” Earlier, he had said that the operations of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation have led to a blood bath.

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The Future of Iran’s Nuclear Program

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July 14, 2025

The Twelve-Day War and Operation Midnight Hammer have cast a shadow of uncertainty over the Middle East, raising questions about the pathway of Iran’s nuclear program. Of particular interest is how the US and Israel, the two principal opponents of a nuclear-armed Iran, would pursue their unvarying objective of not allowing Tehran to produce nuclear weapons.

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No Swift Solutions to Current Conflicts

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July 9, 2025

On February 28, 2025, the world witnessed an unprecedented public confrontation between President Trump and  President Zelensky at the Oval Office, where the former and Vice President Vance castigated their guest for not being grateful for US support in Ukraine’s war with Russia. Three days later, President Trump temporarily suspended the delivery of all US military aid to Ukraine. Eventually, the incident was somehow put behind and arms shipments resumed.

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Iran Closer to Defeat

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June 25, 2025

On July 18, 2015, the JCPoA was signed between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany. The intention to engage Iran had already been made clear by President Obama in his landmark Cairo speech on June 4, 2009, when he had said, “In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government. This history is well known.” He was referring to the 1953 overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq by a coup engineered by the US and the UK.

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A Brief Look at Middle East’s Recent History

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June 19, 2025

For decades, the Middle East landscape has been shaped by wars, major power competition, landmark peace treaties among regional adversaries that unfortunately failed to embrace the broader region, and external military interventions.  Its history has been marked by conflict rather than stability. The following are some of the highlights of the region’s recent past:

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