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The cartoon by the humor magazine Charlie Hebdo, which mocked the devastation caused by the earthquake disaster in Turkey by saying, "There was no need to send tanks," rightly drew widespread public outrage. However, there was a fact that the [...]

Equatorial Guinea, a small country in Africa with only 1.4 million inhabitants, has always attracted my attention. It is the only Spanish speaking country on the continent. Sandwiched between Cameroon and Gabon, it stands like a matchbox facing the ocean. […]

*Hale Kıvanç Bökeer   Over eight rounds of talks in Vienna for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), some progress has been noted between Iran and US, the UK, Russia, China, Germany and France, with the coordination and negotiation [...]

*Hale Kıvanç Bökeer   The world energy production and consumption is seriously affected by the global climate change. Certain security implications rise for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Europe. These impact the international and national security, as [...]

The recent trilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between Turkey, Sweden, and Finland, which set the stage for the most successful NATO summit since the Ukraine crisis started, reminded me of Obama’s leading from behind doctrine. The phrase was first [...]

The proposed “preemptive expansion” of NATO in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an action as guided by fear as the U.S. military attack on Iraq that spawned nearly 20 years of war. And enlarging NATO could turn out [...]

Russia caused a seismic shock throughout the World by invading Ukraine. Nothing will be the same again and the Ukraine crisis will be recorded in history as a milestone in international relations. A new generation cold war we all knew [...]

There is a saying attributed to Vladimir Ilich Lenin: “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen”. This could not be more applicable to recent developments in global politics. Turkey's recent rapprochement to Israel is [...]

Four global players will define how our near future will look: the United States (US), the European Union (EU), China and Russia. The relationship between these “four horsemen of the Apocalypse” will – to a large degree – determine the [...]

The Ukraine crisis has shown that the use of force in the 21st century can cause serious public backlash. And even in countries that are party to the conflict, the public antagonizes against harming civilians.   Reports that only 12 [...]