Author: Musa Gulya

While the EU is promoting the ninth round of sanctions against Russia, the head of EU foreign policy recently expressed “concern” about the close relationship between Türkiye and Russia, and called on Türkiye to join the sanctions against Russia. This speech angered Türkiye’s President RecepTayyip Erdogan, who responded on the 15th that EU politicians have no right to interfere in Turkish Russian relations. According to the West German Report of Germany on December 11, in a letter to the European Parliament, EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Borrell said that Türkiye’s refusal to join the EU’s sanctions against…

The continuous Russia-Ukraine conflict has overturned global calculations about supply routes. Therefore, geo-economic realignments are visible globally, as infrastructure projects previously thought unfeasible are now making progress. In this backdrop, the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan Railway Corridor, also called Trans-Afghan Railway Project, is also gathering momentum. In fact, Uzbekistan has prioritized to diversify its supply routes and increase volumes of Euro-Asian trade by getting access to Pakistan’s seaports of Karachi, Gowadar and Qasim. Pakistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan have already signed in February 2021, a US$ 4.8 billion railway project that is likely to bolster trade relations between Pakistan and South Asia. The proposed…

Within the partitions of a lovely former church in San Francisco’s Richmond district, racks of laptop servers hum and blink with exercise. They comprise the web. Well, a really great amount of it. The Internet Archive, a non-profit, has been gathering net pages since 1996 for its famed and beloved Wayback Machine. In 1997, the gathering amounted to 2 terabytes of knowledge. Colossal again then, you possibly can match it on a $50 thumb drive now. Today, the archive’s founder Brewster Kahle tells me, the venture is getting ready to surpassing 100 petabytes – roughly 50,000 instances bigger than in…

On the morning of 6 February, Turkey was shaken by a severe earthquake. Thousands of people lost their lives or became homeless under harsh winter conditions. There is no dispute that the earthquake was of exceptional severity. But many agree that the lack of professionalism of the AFAD, the government agency tasked with dealing with disasters, is making things worse. After the earthquake which affected 10 provinces, search and rescue activities only started days later. Survivors suffered from shortages of shelter, food and toilets. Cell phones did not work. As if all this were not enough, government-controlled media institutions waged…

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is implementing a project to assess Turkmenistan’s potential in hydrogen energy, a source in the UNECE told trend . ‘At the moment, the UNECE is implementing a project on sustainable hydrogen production in the region and its role in the development of the energy sector. The aim of the project was to analyze the potential of sustainable production of hydrogen ecosystem in both Turkmenistan and other CIS countries,’ the organization said. It was noted that this project also considered the potential of Turkmenistan in the export of hydrogen energy. ‘Turkmenistan is one…

The Biden administration on Tuesday pledged to support the independence of the five Central Asian nations, in a not-so-subtle warning to the former Soviet states that Russia’s value as a partner has been badly compromised by its year-old war against Ukraine. In Kazakhstan for a series of meetings with top Central Asian diplomats, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said no country, particularly those that have traditionally been in Moscow’s orbit, can afford to ignore the threats posed by Russian aggression to not only their territory but to the international rules-based order and the global economy. In all of his discussions,…

The US is increasingly supporting Kazakhstan, one of Russia’s closest allies, as cracks appear in the nation’s relationship with its larger neighbor following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The move could be a worrying development for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched his attack on Ukraine partly over fears that NATO was moving closer to its borders. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the central Asian country on Tuesday, where he said that the US “strongly supports Kazakhstan’s sovereignty, its independence, its territorial integrity,” according to news agency AFP. This came after some of Russia’s outspoken propagandists had suggested that Russia should…

ANTAKYA, Turkey — They bedded down anywhere they could: on lightless street corners, in grassy little parks, next to an elementary school, on a hillside down from one of the world’s earliest Christian churches. Across Antakya, the ancient capital of Hatay Province, the region hit hardest by the worst earthquake in Turkey in nearly a century, thousands were struggling to make sense of a cataclysm that had turned their lives inside out and left many with no home, no possessions, no memories and, for some, no future here. Many were grappling with getting through another night. Cars were cold to sleep in…

Sweden is negotiating a new defence deal with the United States as the process to ratify its Nato application drags on.Sweden’s defence ministry said that the two nations were negotiating a deal for “even closer cooperation with the United States both bilaterally and within the framework of Nato”. Exactly what the so-called Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) will cover is being negotiated “but it makes it easier for American troops to operate in Sweden,” Defence Minister Pål Jonson said in a written statement to AFP. “It could entail storage of military supplies, investments in infrastructure to enable support and the legal…

The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Monday to keep a key border crossing from Turkey to Syria’s rebel-held northwest open for critical aid deliveries for another six months. In a surprise, Syria’s close ally Russia, whose support had been in doubt, joined in the 15-0 vote.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had warned that the already dire humanitarian situation in Syria is worsening, and said if aid deliveries from Turkey to northwest Idlib aren’t renewed millions of Syrians might not survive the winter. Guterres said deliveries have increased across conflict lines within the country, which Russia has pressed for. But he…