Author: Feray Ekin

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte will be in Türkiye on Nov. 25 to hold talks with senior Turkish officials, including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in his first official trip to Ankara after taking office on Oct. 1. A statement issued by NATO over the weekend has informed that Rutte will meet Erdoğan as well as Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Defense Minister Yaşar Güler. The new chief of the alliance will lay a wreath at Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of modern Türkiye founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. He will also engage representatives from the Turkish defense industry and visit the facilities of the Turkish Airspace Industries (TUSAŞ),…

The relationship between Indonesia and Russia has grown increasingly close in recent years. Both countries share similar views on several global issues, particularly in supporting a multipolar world order. This common ground served as the foundation for the World Territory of Meanings Forum, which also saw the participation of NYC Indonesia. The strong bilateral relationship between Indonesia and Russia provided an essential backdrop for NYC Indonesia’s participation in this forum. By sending an Indonesian delegation, it is hoped that cooperation and mutual understanding between the youth of both nations will deepen. The forum offered a platform to strengthen these ties through…

Frankfurt, Paris (18/8 – 62.50) Ukraine has scored a series of victories in more than a week since launching a lightning offensive into Russian territory. Now the stakes are rising as its forces prepare to defend their gains and Russia begins to regain its footing. Last week, Ukraine deployed thousands of troops to the Kursk region in western Russia, removing Russian flags from captured towns and taking the initiative from Moscow for the first time in months. On Wednesday, officials in Kyiv said Ukraine would use seized Russian territory as a “buffer zone” to shield its north from Russian strikes.…

The Turkish Coast Guard Command early on Friday said it rescued dozens of irregular migrants pushed back by Greece along the Aegean coast and caught dozens more attempting to make the crossing. Some 16 migrants were found drifting on two rubber boats after being pushed back by Greek elements into Turkish territorial waters off the coast of Dikili and Çeşme districts in western Izmir province, the agency said. It also picked up 52 other migrants, including 16 children, who were trying to attempt to cross to Greece on rubber boats in the same region. Separately, it said it found 30…

Sanjiva Weerawarana is a Sri Lankan success story. He founded enterprise software firm WSO2 in 2005, got it close to $100 million in ARR as its CEO, then sold it to private equity firm EQT for $600 million in May. He sometimes drives for Uber, too. Sri Lanka isn’t renowned for its startup ecosystem, but one company has been something of an outlier in the South Asian island nation these past two decades. WSO2, an open source enterprise software provider with customers such as Samsung, Axa, and AT&T, recently agreed to be acquired by private equity giant EQT, at a valuation TechCrunch reported at the time…

Former Russian Deputy Defense Minister Tatyana Shevtsova, who officially was dismissed mid-June, fled to France ‘with hundreds of millions of dollars saved in cryptocurrency.’. Tsargrad and other Telegram channels report this with reference to several sources, although confirmation or refutation of this data has not yet been received. If she fled to France, it must be a deal with the French security service, as she is sanctioned in Europe. There is a version that Shevtsova allegedly cooperated with the investigation against the detained generals, trying to avoid her own charges. According to another version, the generals, to reduce their sentences,…

The renowned Turkish TV series market has been severely impacted by the ongoing economic crisis, prompting production companies to cancel all summer series this year and cut back on the number of shows for the upcoming season, according to journalist Birsen Altuntaş. Even though Turkey became the third-biggest TV series importer worldwide according to the Economist, the rising production cost began to affect producers. The cost of producing a TV series episode, which was around one to 1.5 million Turkish liras three years ago, has now soared to over 10 million liras. This drastic increase in production expenses encompassed actor salaries, screenwriter…

In the wake of the organisations from countries such as Russia, China, Denmark and the United States proposing to invest in nuclear energy, Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Authority (SLAEA) has given the green light for nuke power, an official said. Russia which has already invested in nuclear power generation in Bangladesh and India in the region has shown a keener interest in putting up a plant in Sri Lanka. A high-level delegation from Russia which was in Sri Lanka recently discussed the proposed cooperation in the nuclear energy sector among others with the Sri Lankan authorities. SLAEA Chairman Prof. S.R.D.…

The agreement for the Turkic Investment Fund has been approved, according to the decision published in Wednesday’s edition of the Official Gazette with the signature of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “Approval has been granted for the attached ‘Turkic Investment Fund Establishment Agreement,’ signed in Ankara on March 16, 2023, and deemed appropriate for approval by Law No. 7470, under Articles 2 and 3 of Presidential Decree No. 9,” the decision stated. The Organization of Turkic States (OTS) signed a founding agreement to set up a fund to boost economic integration among the member countries during an extraordinary meeting of OTS…

Toronto, Alaska (16/11 – 50) Our lives are being maneuvered and we are being manipulated by unelected, insidious forces, toward objectives not necessarily in the people’s interest. Now that the so-called “pandemic”, declared by the mysterious self-appointed World Health Organization, and followed obediently by governments everywhere, has been decreed “finished”, we should devote a moment to introspection, considering who is running the show and for whose benefit, as governments gaily abdicated their vested responsibility to govern. Pandemic is over? I hope they told those killer viruses who destroyed the population of Europe and North America. What? Oh, just 1% mortality?…