“While Erdoğan wages war on Turkey’s workers’ movement by jailing socialist MPs, the British police’s harassment of London’s Kurdish community reveals how much this authoritarianism has stretched to Britain”. This is the introduction to an article by Can Koçak published on the website of the […]
First of all, let’s make one thing clear. We don’t support the Russian invasion in Ukraine. We don’t support the invasion of any country by any country. We don’t support war. We don’t support aggressive military alliances. We don’t believe that war ever solves problems. It only creates more. Once we made that clear, […]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on 18/07/24 released a letter he addressed to the heads of European Union countries where he presented his impressions from a recent series of visits, which included meetings with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping and Donald Trump in the USA. Mr Orbán’s meetings with the presidents […]
Immigration is the number one political concern for Americans for the third month in a row, wrote Rana Foroohar on 8 July in the Financial Times. Something similar is happening in the UK, in our native country, Cyprus, and in Europe generally. Immigration has become the source of escalating political friction. Despite all that, and contrary […]
For some he was a great man, a brave and wise man, that ended the cold war, withdrew the Soviet troops from East Germany and helped the reunification of Germany, tried hard to democratise Russia and the Soviet Union. For others, especially in his own country, he was a weak and naive leader that was […]
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were little toys compared with modern […]
“Turkey’s Erdoğan threatens to derail Nato enlargement again”. That was the title of a Financial Times report that appeared in the online edition of the London newspaper in the evening of 30/06/2022. The report ends with what Toni Alaranta, a Turkey expert at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, wrote on Twitter in response to […]
Mohamed Amar Abara is a 67-year-old naturalised Greek citizen from Syria. He is the father of four children and has lived in Greece since 1987. At some stage, he went to Turkey on business and vanished and his family were desperately trying to find out what happened to him. About 40 days later, they were […]
The news site Pravda (www.pravda.ru) reports that “Russia may grant Turkey the status of a privileged partner” and that “will give Ankara an opportunity to increase its sales market”. According to the same source “Turkey is interested in scaling up its economy” and Russia “may offer Ankara a new market”. Although Turkey is unlikely to […]
People usually talk about “the cold war years” as if the cold war is a thing of the past. News reports, on a daily basis and for quite some time, show that the opposite is the truth. In fact, the cold war does go on and has reached a very dangerous stage. Daily exchanges between […]
