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Sep 21, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Muhammet Ali Oruç |Kemal Inat |Batuhan Aca |BookTalkBy Dilara Ozer
Nearly 8% of the population of the Libyan city of Derna was killed or went missing after devastating floods hit the city on September 10, 2023, in the biggest natural disaster in the country’s modern history. A third of the city’s buildings were wiped out and swept away by the Mediterranean Sea, while hundreds of bodies are believed to be trapped in structures and buildings under water. The disaster followed a warning issued last year by professor of civil engineering Abdelwanees Ashoor.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Muhammet Ali Oruç |Kemal Inat |Batuhan Aca |BookTalkBy Dilara Ozer
Since 2020, the Sahel region has witnessed a significant number of military coups with various political implications at the regional and global levels. Tunç Demirtaş, a researcher at the Ankara-based think tank SETA, attributed the regular occurrence of military coups in the Sahel to regional dynamics.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Batuhan Aca |Mehmet Kanci |Murat Aslan |Belkıs Kılıçkaya
In Europe, Hungary and Serbia have always been lukewarm towards Russia. The two countries’ foreign and domestic policies have led them to have an ambiguous relationship with Moscow. Ukraine, however, has managed to rally them around a single goal. This maneuver has to do with Ukraine’s historical and legitimate claims that Crimea, a melting pot of different ethnicities and religions, be part of its nation again.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Şeymanur Melayim |Muhammet Ali Oruç |Kemal Inat |Batuhan Aca
On May 17, 2023, Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the opposition-led legislature, setting the stage for immediate elections. The snap elections, held on August 20, 2023, resulted in the election of a new congress and a presidential candidate. However, as none of the presidential candidates received a majority of votes, the country is now gearing up for a presidential runoff scheduled for October 15.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Ezgi Yaramanoglu |Muhammet Ali Oruç |Kemal Inat |Batuhan Aca
Turkey’s deep historical ties to the Islamic world are particularly important for Western Muslims seeking a place where their faith can flourish. In the past, Turkey was the epicenter of the Ottoman Empire, a powerful state that ruled for more than 600 years, covering vast territories across the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | İbrahim Karataş |Muhammet Ali Oruç |Kemal Inat |Batuhan Aca
The global agenda is concerned with the enlargement of BRICS, a non-formal economic organization consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Though the group does not have an official status, it functions as an international organization and accepts or rejects memberships of applicant countries.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | BookTalkBy Dilara Ozer |Dilara Aslan Özer |Batuhan Aca |Ezgi Yaramanoglu
The World Resources Institute (WRI) warned that 25 countries around the world, which make up a quarter of the world’s population, are at risk of water scarcity due to high stress on their available water resources. According to the organization’s report, published on August 16, 2023, around four billion people in 25 countries are living with high levels of water stress for at least one month, posing imminent risks to human livelihoods, health, crops, livestock and energy security.
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Aug 19, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Batuhan Aca |Şeymanur Melayim
On July 28, 2023, during a meeting with African leaders in St. Petersburg in Russia, a peculiar authority gave a speech: Russian Patriarch Kirill voiced his desire to expand Russian Orthodox churches in Africa. Over the past two years, the Russian Orthodox Church has been expanding in Africa. It has opened more than 200 parishes in 25 African countries even though traditional Orthodox jurisdiction of Africa belongs to the Patriarchy of Alexandria, Egypt.
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Aug 18, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Ezgi Yaramanoglu |Batuhan Aca |Şeymanur Melayim
The spheres of politics and fashion are two separate realms that are constantly merging to exert influence and shape perceptions. As interconnected spheres, politics and fashion govern both our bodies and our identities; they establish norms and traditions that affect our lives. From regulating how we present ourselves in public to how we interact with others, fashion has become a powerful tool of expression and diplomacy.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Tunç Demirtaş |Batuhan Aca |Şeymanur Melayim
The Wagner Group, a private military company based in Russia, has been making a name for itself in the global system since 2014. Wagner’s leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close figure to Putin, is also known as “Putin’s cook.” Prigozhin announced that he founded Wagner specifically to support Russian forces in the Donbas Warin May 2014. Wagner has a presence both in Russia and across the world, including the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Latin America.
