Author: Zeynep Gurcanli (Zeynep Gurcanli)

BY ZEYNEP GURCANLI Global problems are also different in the Internet age. Will artificial intelligence (AI) technology, which develops almost every day, be hope or disaster for people? The world argues this. The ministers responsible for digital issues of the Group of Seven (G-7), which consists of the most developed economies in the world, agreed...

BY ZEYNEP GURCANLI The tension between the U.S., Russia, and China has shifted from bickering between governments to the humanitarian and economic levels. The humanitarian issue hovers around the American journalist arrested in Russia. After the arrest of Ivan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter in Moscow, Washington’s response was to call on all American...

BY ZEYNEP GURCANLI Not one, but many critical thresholds were crossed in global relations last weekend. The most critical development was Russia’s statement to deploy tactical nuclear weapons to its ally Belarus. Russian leader Putin announced that Russian-made Iskander missile systems have started to be sent to Belarus, while the Belarussian army is being trained...

BY ZEYNEP GURCANLI It did not attract much attention between the election and the earthquake agenda, but Ankara hosted an important foreign visitor at the beginning of the last week. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani paid his first official visit to Turkey. The two agenda items came to the fore during his visit, as...

BY ZEYNEP GURCANLI The Middle East storm is brewing. China’s entrance into the Middle East equation by achieving the Iran-Saudi Arabia reconciliation disturbs the U.S., which has seen this region as its backyard for years. However, Washington is not the only one disturbed by the entrance of China into the equation. Russia also began to...

BY ZEYNEP GURCANLI The recent earthquakes, which hit Turkey and the north of Syria, mobilized the international arena. More than 90 countries offered aid to Turkey. Some of them sent search and rescue teams, some provided cash or in-kind aid. The solidarity campaign with Turkey, which emerged globally after the earthquake, was also reflected in...

BY ZEYNEP GURCANLI The Russian invasion of Ukraine ignited a new international arms race. The U.S. announced a new USD 2.5bn arms aid package this week alone to be sent to Ukraine. The total cost of U.S. arms aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the war has reached USD 27.5bn. The Ukrainian administration, which...

BY ZEYNEP GURCANLI Tensions between the USA and Turkey seem to be getting worse with new sanctions placed on a Turkish businessman by the US Treasury Department. For this new decision, the US Treasury used the same reasoning as in the case of Reza Zarrab-Hakan Atilla and the case against Halkbank in the New York...

BY ZEYNEP GURCANLI In the new multipolar world order, which the Ukraine war set aflame, ranks are tightening. Especially on the Western front, led by the USA, things are very active these days. One of the western front’s strategies seems to be to impose new tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from China, in the...

BY ZEYNEP GURCANLI Just months before a critical election in Turkey, the strategy that will be followed by the AK Party is taking shape. This can be summarized as follows: internal tension contrasted with external normalization. Given this, it is not a surprise that the AKP has brought back the old “survival” discourse. Following the...