Limits, horizons of Turk-Pak relations

ISLAMABAD / PAKISTANOur Pakistan flight departed almost two hours late.While at the airport, we fell into deep conversation with the adviser to Pakistan’s Istanbul consul general, Waqar Badshah, who is originally from Bukhara. Badshah did his doctora... more

How can we understand the world if we don’t understand the British first?

Contemporary thinking was founded by the Germans.Contemporary politics and its institutes were largely developed by the French. But the Brits are the architects of the contemporary world.It was the British who transformed the Germans’ thinking revolu... more

NATO’s Turkey or Turkey’s ‘NATO’?

What does NATO stand for? The “North Atlantic Treaty Organization”?  Or does it?  NATO’s true definition, though it has never been described as such and never shall be, spells out: the non-aggression pact signed between the insidi... more

Turkey’s unique influence is the worst nightmare of the religion of capitalism!

Mounting tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine have prompted people to ask all the wrong questions: Will the Americans and the Russians clash? Will a third world war break out?These are all misplaced questions!When you go asking the wrong... more

Could they be trying to besiege Turkey by dragging it into a possible Russian-Ukrainian war?

Will a whole new world be established? Is that even possible?Will it be done on the pillars of peace or war?This is the great conundrum, the real matter we need to be tracing in the upcoming period.It seems that three countries will be determining th... more

Turkey cannot move forward without confronting itself, West

Let me first begin this column with a shocking fact: We are the passengers of a ship that has lost its compass in the middle of a stormy sea, trying to find its way and orbit and to save its soul, and “we” are not the captains of this "ship."That's w... more

If we abandon the Balkans to their fate, the ‘infernal children’ will transform the region into hell

I am on an Adıyaman-bound flight from Turkey’s Istanbul. The aircraft takes off, diving into a crazy cluster of clouds. We cruise like this for a while. Snow, winter, and the clouds begin a dance in the air. A while later, the sun joins in on their p... more

Welcome to the world of Metaverse, the age of seductive barbarism!

Life has lost its thrill.It has become meaningless, it has lost its soul.Yes, life used to have a soul, it had value, it had meaning.Despite all the wars, murders, chaos and crises, life was worth living because it had a spirit, because it had meanin... more

A covert economic coup is being carried out against Turkey

When President Erdogan criticized the interest rate lobby, which was struggling to keep interest rates high, the interest lobby struck back. The exchange rate shot up. The American dollar jumped to 13.50 TL all of a sudden!They are trying to make Tur... more

Can Turkic states stand up to Russian, American oppression?

On Saturday, I paid a visit to Yassıada (Democracy and Freedom Island) with 180 students from the Youth and Sports Ministry’s Istanbul branch, under the guidance of Director Durmuş Can.The blood-chilling fictional trialAs the ferry approached the isl... more

Are the US and Russia conspiring against Turkey?

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s response to criticisms targeting the UN was interesting. Stating that the order and institutions established by the victors of World War II are still current, he noted that it is dangerous to criticize the establish... more

Provoking Islamophobia through imperialist concoctions

It recently came to light that, a year ago, talks were held and deals signed with the Americans on the transferal of Afghanistan’s administration to the Taliban. Later, the Taliban did, indeed, come to the helm of the government in the country.This c... more

The British role in Afghanistan: the Taliban’s arrival, Turkey’s siege, and paving Iran’s path

The Taliban have taken control of Afghanistan. They now rule over the whole country.The American administration was barely able to withdraw its troops, agents, henchmen, and puppets! America has been shamefaced in front of the whole world! These even... more