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What did the threat to occupy Greenland achieve?
President Trump, who argues that the United States must acquire Greenland one way or another for America’s security, chose to soften the occupation threat by saying in Davos that he would not resort to a military option. Trump, who had announced an additional 10% tariff on European countries opposing the U.S. acquisition of Greenland, also said after his Davos meetings that he was, for now, backing away from this step. It is said that Trump softened his stance in return for Europe’s principled acceptance
22 January 2026
Why did the US and Israel abandon the PKK? Türkiye succeeded. Erdoğan succeeded. Where are those who threatened Erdoğan?
After US Ambassador Tom Barrack’s statement that “we no longer need the YPG,” followed by Trump’s remarks to the effect that “we helped them a lot, and it didn’t work,” the PKK/YPG has effectively ended—it is history.An organization that occupied Türkiye for decades, served as the vanguard of Syria’s fragmentation, acted as the armed enforcer of US and Israeli interests in the region, and became one of the main drivers of geographic instability has now passed into history. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WEAPONS
21 January 2026
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America is not surprising anyone in Syria!
The history of American foreign policy is full of examples in which Washington has used vastly different groups across different regions of the world, only to either leverage them later in a larger bargain or abandon them altogether once their usefulness expired. From Southeast Asia to Latin America, from Afghanistan to Iraq, non-state actors that have entered power struggles across a wide geography have learned firsthand that American support is not permanent. The developments unfolding in Syria
20 January 2026
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Seeing a place as a journalist
Being a journalist changes the way you travel—and honestly, it makes it more rewarding. Things move faster. Plans come together quickly. Someone always says, “Let’s go now.” Doors open, schedules adjust, and suddenly you’re somewhere you didn’t expect to be, learning things you didn’t plan to learn. There’s a rhythm to it. As a tourist, you follow the city. As a journalist, the city meets you halfway. You’re not just looking at places—you’re moving through them with purpose. Offices, studios, newsrooms,
20 January 2026
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The race for “Great Spheres of Influence” has begun!
The destinies of the Middle East and Latin America, just as during the Cold War, are once again becoming intertwined today. In 1953, a joint coup by the United States and Britain crushed Iran’s nascent parliamentary democracy. Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, was removed through this coup. The Shah, who owed his throne to the US and Britain, went on to rule Iran despotically. Similarly, in Chile in 1973, Salvador Allende—like Mossadegh, elected through democratic
19 January 2026
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Would Lindsey Graham fight a war in the name of any religion?
American Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, speaking to the press in Israel—the forward outpost of Zionism—once again says, “this is a religious war.” When we search the phrase used in the statement, “this is a religious war,” in English, some very interesting articles come up. One of them was published in The New York Times Magazine in 2021. Digital sources describe the author, Andrew Sullivan, as a “British-American conservative political commentator.” In the headline of Sullivan’s column, the
19 January 2026
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So what happens if Iran strikes Israel? A regional “Nuclear Shield” must be established
For no clear reason, the US and Israel pushed the entire world into a state of alert with talk of “attacking Iran.” Social unrest inside Iran was interpreted as “Iran is collapsing.” They were swept up by the enthusiasm of Iranian opposition groups and supporters of the Shah’s regime. When Israeli provocations and Trump’s careless statements were added to the mix, the entire region went on war alert. But there was no real preparation. The US, which spent a year preparing and amassing forces before
15 January 2026
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It is not just about Yemen, but Saudi Arabia’s return to the stage
Saudi Arabia’s (SA) unexpected reaction to the developments in eastern Yemen in the final days of last year suddenly exposed a grand plan that has been quietly taking shape across the Middle East. Within this revealed plan lay a story of betrayal, encirclement, and a so-called ally working for its own interests for a long time—at the expense of its other partners. In Yemen, Saudi Arabia’s long silence, which had surprised everyone, turned out to be part of a major plan that, in fact, everyone was
15 January 2026
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America’s immigration fight: from border security to internal conflict
The killing of Renee Good by an ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officer in the state of Minnesota has had an effect that undercuts the Trump administration’s rhetoric about combating illegal immigration. The shooting death of Good—a U.S. citizen and mother of three—while she was trying to move away from the scene sparked outrage and significantly expanded anti-ICE protest actions. ICE, which is tasked on behalf of the federal government with ensuring border security, attempting in major
13 January 2026
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The tragedies of small states..
The “United Nations,” established after the Second World War, set rules precisely to prevent actions like what Trump did to Venezuela. Today, however, we are living in a period in which the rules-based, liberal international legal order has lost its function. The impunity enjoyed by genocidal Israel, and the U.S. military intervention in Venezuela—during which the country’s president and his wife were openly seized and abducted from their bedroom—have become the final nails in the coffin of this
12 January 2026
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Why is the UAE running a campaign to smear Islam’s image?
Information has begun to emerge indicating that the United Arab Emirates is directing and financing smear campaigns against the image of Islam in the West. At first glance, this appears quite surprising. After all, the UAE is an Arab and Muslim country, part of the Arab world. The sense of surprise stems precisely from this fact. One would not expect a country that is Arab, Muslim, and part of the Arab geography to be involved in negative approaches toward Islam and Muslims. Moreover, in the West,
12 January 2026
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“Ancient Neocons” became the United States’ source of inspiration!
As a curious student of history, the similarities between current events and those of the past strike me as highly intriguing. The scenery changes, but people largely remain the same. In my previous article, I likened the US intervention in Venezuela to the military intervention of the “Athenian Empire” against the island of Melos some 2,500 years ago. The “great power rivalry” between the “rising power Athens” and the “established power Sparta” ultimately led to war. Athens’ “Delian League” and
11 January 2026
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Why you should read ten pages out loud every day
Reading silently is good. Reading out loud is better. My dad always advised me to read ten pages out loud every day. He believed it would improve my communication. He was a skilled public speaker, and I saw how much of his impact came from clarity, tone, and confidence. Reading out loud trains your mind and your voice together. You notice each word, each sentence, and how ideas flow. Mistakes stand out. Confusing sentences become obvious. Your thinking sharpens, and your speech becomes more confident.
09 January 2026
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On what is happening in Venezuela...
Regarding what is happening in Venezuela, two possibilities appear to exist here. The first is that the neocons who emerged as the new elites of the United States failed to understand that the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the end of the Cold War stemmed from a global systemic crisis—one that would eventually strike them as well. They surrendered themselves to a state of victory intoxication. The second possibility is that, even if they did see this, they sought to overcome it by turning it into
08 January 2026
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The kidnapping of Maduro: Two approaches, two worldviews
The concepts of the West and Europe no longer point to a continent or a world that has resolved its internal contradictions. Differences rooted in nationality and religion—between Latins and Anglo-Saxons, or Catholics and Protestants—are once again being treated as meaningful categories due to rivalry and calculations of interest. This development renders the categories that have shaped our thinking for nearly two centuries increasingly dysfunctional. When we say that the familiar world is collapsing,
07 January 2026
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A new regional geopolitical axis: Türkiye, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia
Alliance and Institutional State Solidarity As the international system undergoes the unraveling of the liberal order that was attempted to be constructed in the post–Cold War era, it is evolving into an increasingly uncertain, insecure, and unpredictable structure. Today, global politics is shaped less by shared values and rules and more by power balances, deterrence, and coercive capacity. This picture produces a multilayered global crisis environment in which order-building actors are weakening,
06 January 2026
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Venezuela and the Island of Melos...
In one of the thriller novels adapted into film in the 1970s, the president of an African country who refused to allow a greedy Western company to seize control of the country’s mineral resources was targeted. The company hired an experienced former colonel to eliminate the head of state. That colonel organized a group of former mercenaries for the operation. The future leader who would advance the company’s interests was already in the bag. Whether this standby, hired leader could take the presidential
06 January 2026
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Abducting Maduro shows not the power of the United States, but its banditry
Trump once again showed the world what we all know, but prefer not to believe, through the operation he carried out against Venezuela in which he abducted its elected leader: there is no such thing as international law or international justice. There is only the law of the strong. And that strong power can name its own law however it wishes and impose it on everyone else. Storming an independent country like a pirate and abducting its leader from his bedroom along with his wife is, plainly and unmistakably,
04 January 2026
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The end of the modern age and a return to the law of the jungle...
We began the first day of the new year with a powerful action on the Galata Bridge that reminded us of human dignity. Hundreds of thousands of people who came together in support of Palestine cried out not only about what is happening in Gaza, but also about the moral and legal collapse into which the global order has been dragged. Israel’s more than 75-year apartheid regime, the genocide carried out in Gaza, and unrestrained violence have ceased to be a singular arena of oppression and have turned
03 January 2026
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A new year, a new war!
How 2026 would unfold became clear from the very outset with the military intervention in Venezuela. Trump, who had previously declared that he would be a “President of Peace,” now appears set to continue on his path as a “President of War.” As in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, published in 1949, we are entering a strange period in which every clichéd expression seems to contain its exact opposite. The situation in Gaza is not much different. Israel has shifted from a “fast-motion genocide”
03 January 2026
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