News and Analyses of events in Western Europe
For decades, the EU has focused on economic integration rather than power politics. However, as authoritarian regimes have risen to power in many parts of the world and the United States’ leadership has waned, geopolitics has resurfaced with a fury. The EU’s foreign policy is struggling to adapt to the new reality due to its…
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Turkey and Bangladesh share a lot in common in terms of historical relations, values and culture. Relations between Turkish and Bengali-speaking peoples have deep historical and cultural roots, reaching back to the late Ottoman Empire and decades before the establishment of Bangladesh’s People’s Republic. During the First World War and the Turkish War of Liberation,…
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Never before in the history of mankind, had a pandemic inflicted with such horrendous cost. A pandemic is also an epidemic that spreads over several countries and continents while affecting a large group of people. On that note – all pandemics are epidemics but not all epidemics turn into pandemics. On the spreading of novel…
Read moreAccording to officials, on 20 February 2020, a 43-year-old German man, who was reportedly motivated by extreme right and racist belief, shot and killed nine people at several locations in a Frankfurt suburb overnight. A Turkish media reported that five of the victims were Turkish citizens. An association of Kurds in Germany said in a…
Read moreA member of the Iraqi Parliamentary Security Committee, Bader Al-Ziyadi said on 10 February 2020 that Germany, France and Australia submitted requests to withdraw their forces from Iraq. “Three countries, France, Germany and Australia, submitted a request to the Joint Operations Command to set a timetable for withdrawing their forces from Iraq,” said committee member…
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