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Nov 13, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Mehmet Ugur Ekinci |Ezgi Yaramanoglu |BookTalkBy Dilara Ozer |Dilara Aslan Özer
Amid the recent Israeli onslaught on Gaza, Russia’s positioning has introduced new complexities to its relations with Israel, according to experts. James Nixey, Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at Chatham House, and Nikolay Kozhanov, a Research Associate Professor, have pointed out that the Gaza War has served to align Russia against Israel, primarily by diverting U.S. attention and resources away from Ukraine.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Mehmet Ugur Ekinci |Ezgi Yaramanoglu |BookTalkBy Dilara Ozer |Dilara Aslan Özer
In an analysis by Noam Raydan of the Washington Institute, the recent Gaza conflict’s repercussions on energy security within the East Mediterranean have been brought to the forefront. With the region already in the limelight for its promising natural gas reserves and cooperative energy projects, the escalation has triggered concerns about the stability and sustainability of these developments.
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Nov 11, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | BookTalkBy Dilara Ozer |Dilara Aslan Özer
I n Eurowhiteness, Hans Kundnani, Associate Fellow in the Europe Programme at Chatham House, challenges a sanitized and linear history of the EU, prompting the reader to rethink Europe’s peaceful image against its imperial past. He goes on to tackle myopic assumptions about the European project throughout the book. Kundnani argues that pro-Europeans, who cradled cosmopolitanism and renounced nationalism, have failed to perceive the reality of European regionalism.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | BookTalkBy Dilara Ozer |Dilara Aslan Özer |İbrahim Karataş
In a statement, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has declared that the European Union must not initiate membership discussions with Ukraine, marking a clear stance from Hungary on the burgeoning issue. This announcement comes ahead of the EU leaders’ meeting slated for mid-December, 2023, where they are expected to consider the European Commission’s recommendation for Ukraine to commence membership talks contingent upon meeting the requisite conditions.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | BookTalkBy Dilara Ozer |Dilara Aslan Özer |İbrahim Karataş
Anew study has brought to light the pervasive nature of racism faced by Muslim men in Germany, with over 40% reporting experiences of racial discrimination in their daily lives. The findings, released on November 7, by the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (Dezim) in Berlin, indicate that 41.2% of Muslim men feel affected by racism. The report underscores discrimination encounters in public offices and interactions with authorities, including the police.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Ezgi Yaramanoglu |BookTalkBy Dilara Ozer |Dilara Aslan Özer
In a significant move, U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to remove Uganda, Gabon, Niger, and the Central African Republic from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade program, effective from January 1, 2024. The decision came in light of what President Biden described as “gross violations” of internationally recognized human rights standards by some of the nations, specifically pointing to the controversial anti-homosexuality law enacted in Uganda.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Faruk TASCI |Mehmet Ugur Ekinci |Ezgi Yaramanoglu |BookTalkBy Dilara Ozer
Thinking makes man human. Humans are beings that can exist as long as they think. Sometimes you think about a weed, a tree, an insect; sometimes you think about an event that affects the whole world. In the world we live in today, there is a topic that we have to ask and think about: the attacks of the Zionist regime on Palestine.
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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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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.
