The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States has led to consecutive impacts on the world’s political and economic order, sparking fresh global and regional instabilities. The world was not safe before Trump, but it risks being in much more danger due to his reckless, arrogant and selfish policies.
Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu held his second meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the last two weeks. The minister also met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Aug. 24.
One of the immediate consequences of the ongoing row with the United States—which has an immense economic impact on the Turkish economy—was a 180-degree and pragmatic turn of Turkey towards the European Union and prominent European countries.
Last week has observed two main actions from the Turkish government in a bid to fight ongoing economic turbulence that devalued the Turkish Lira around 40 percent against the United States dollar.
It is beyond dispute that one of the game changing impacts in the Syrian theater was a joint product by Turkey and Russia, who have created the Astana Process later with the participation of Iran in early 2017. The three-way mechanism has brought about the establishment of four de-escalation zones inside Syria in a bid to reduce violence and therefore, create the necessary conditions for a political settlement.
Turkey has always been a country that has received special attention due to its geostrategic location where continents meet and its Western orientation, despite its overwhelming Muslim population. A NATO member since 1952, a candidate to the European Union since 1999 as well as a founding member of a number of other European institutions like the Council of Europe, Turkey has always been a country of distinction.
United States President Donald Trump is a man of his word. He began a massive trade war in the world, reversed some of key Obama-era laws, withdrew his country from the Iranian nuclear deal, pressed on NATO countries to increase defense expenditures, relocated the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv and etc.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a highly anticipated and their first in-person meeting in Singapore on Aug. 3, two days after the latter announced sanctions on two Turkish ministers over serious human rights violations against imprisoned pastor Andrew Brunson.
Sise Bingöl is a 78-year-old being convicted on terror charges and has been in prison since April 2017. She was first arrested in April 2016 in a village of the Varto district of the eastern province of Muş along with her son, Zafer Bingöl, on suspicions they were aiding members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
