- One of the enduring images of 2020, the year of the pandemic, has been the sight of people connected to ventilators in hospitals. It is an image that helped...
- Our interview with Omar Salha, research and teaching fellow at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS
- In light of the extraordinary impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown measures on the energy system, global demand for gas has fallen substantially. Similarly oil demand has...
- Our interview with the Director of Seville Mosque Foundation, Ibrahim Hernandez
- Life in a Country Album is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and above all, inspirational. Nathalie Handal's musings are divided into four regional parts: Album...
- Earlier this month, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres registered the Turkey-Libya deal on the delimitation of maritime jurisdiction in the Mediterranean. Under Article 102 of the UN Charter, "Every treaty...
- Turkey's 21st-century geopolitical strategy is called the Blue Homeland. It is the brainchild of retired Rear Admiral Cem Gurdeniz, who talked to MEMO about Turkey's eastern Mediterranean policy, which...
- Stephen Bronner is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Rutgers University
- Turkey's role in the transit of regional energy supplies has been likened to a sandwich: the upper slice has Russian gas, the lower slice has east Mediterranean and Caucasian...
- The recent release of a video featuring comments uttered by US presidential candidate Joe Biden about Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been roundly condemned in Ankara as being"interventionist"....
- Oil as a commodity is intertwined intimately with national strategies, power and global politics. This was a central theme in Daniel Yergin's The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil,...
- ‘The only thing that has changed is the number of identified bodies of victims and the number of tombstones in Potocari. That is changing. Those numbers are growing,’ genocide survivor and army commander Serif Patkovic tells MEMO
- Veteran journalist Dr Bora Bayraktar greeted his audiences to the Hagia Sophia by saying, "Welcome to the heart of the world." His views have been recorded for his YouTube...
- "After Srebrenica, you said never again…Shame on you World!" These were the words written on the posters of demonstrators who gathered in Sarajevo in 2016 to condemn the Assad regime's...
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent remarks that, "If Greece does not know its place, Turkey knows how to answer", drew a swift and equally menacing response from Athens....
- The ongoing war in Libya took a dramatic turn recently exposing the extent of foreign involvement in the conflict, notably by Russia. Hundreds of Russian "military contractors" — aka...
- The people of Greece and Turkey argue over many things. Food, for example; both claim "baklava" as their own, and prepare it in their own way. It would have...
- Academic Nukhet Varlık has written a timely book on the experience of the Ottoman Empire in coping with plague. The Professor of History at Rutgers University is the author...
- Coronavirus part 1: Should Russia really declare an oil price war against the Middle East? Gold prices have risen while that of oil has slumped due to the coronavirus...
- This week we saw comparisons of the price of a barrel of oil — $30 — with the price of an empty barrel, at around $33. This is the...
- This week we have seen the first reported death of a refugee in the latest phase of the Syrian crisis, when a Syrian man was shot by Greek border...
- In 1918, the Spanish flu pandemic killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. The current coronavirus epidemic, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, has...
- 'We have tried to expose the fact that there were people who could have been killed as a result of foreign mercenaries being hired by the UAE,' Hakan Camuz...
- The situation in Idlib could be the greatest failure of the international community in human history, according to a member of the Turkish Presidency Security and Foreign Policy Council,...
- Swedish furniture and home goods retailer IKEA is being praised for defending a Muslim employee after a racist online customer's review of its store in Aubonne, Switzerland, Daily Sabah...
- Last December, Robert Malley, president and CEO of the International Crisis Group, penned an article for the Foreign Affairs magazine, addressing the topic: "The Unwanted Wars: Why the Middle...
- Following the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923, African affairs were regarded as a secondary issue in the new state's foreign policy. Until relatively recently, that is, when...
- Distinguished Libyan journalist and political analyst, Ashur Shamis, has spoken out on the Libyan Civil War and ceasefire in the country
- Increasing tensions between Iran and the US have led to fears of a widening conflict in the Middle East, with energy market participants increasingly concerned that the fallout could...
- Turkey has announced that it is sending troops to Libya at a time when it is dealing with a new influx of refugees from Syria's north-western province, Idlib. Millions...
- Energy has always played a crucial geopolitical role. Natural gas is a part of this important sector; with the switch from coal-to-gas, the demand for natural gas jumped by...
- An interview with Professor Stephen Bronner, by Elif Selin Calik