Geopolitics
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“I don’t accept anybody’s red lines!” U.S. President Joe Biden, December 4, 2021, Washington. “As a citizen of Russia and the head of the Russian state I have to ask myself: Why would we want a world without Russia?” Russian President Vladimir Putin. The foreign policy of the United States has lately consisted of the…
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TRT World’s new book “The Karabakh Gambit: Responsibility for the Future” offers an insightful examination of the prominent aspects of the Second Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and Armenia and the future implications for the South Caucasus. Download it for free here: The book, published by TRT World Research Centre, is edited by researchers Turan Gafarlı…
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Article published in Daily Sabah, 2 October 2021: A year ago, on 27th September 2020, Azerbaijan began the liberation of its territory that had been occupied by Armenia for nearly 30 years. The Armenian aggression at Tovuz, a few weeks earlier, had begun the countdown to war. The Yerevan government, through its provocations, had signalled…
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Nikol Pashinyan has been officially reappointed as Prime Minister of Armenia, after his unexpected triumph in gaining almost 54 per cent of the vote in June’s snap parliamentary election. Pashinyan is in a much stronger position than could have been expected, considering he is a defeated war leader. One commentator described the choice that faced…
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On May 28th Azerbaijanis will commemorate the 103rd anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. They will celebrate this momentous event in 2021 with greater joy this year, after the liberation of Karabakh and the occupied territories fresh in the minds of the Azerbaijani people. The Azerbaijan Republic emerged unexpectedly during as a result of a…
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The President of the United States has declared that the Ottoman Empire committed Genocide against the Armenians. In his statement chastising Turkey, President Biden chose not to mention the millions of Ottoman Muslims killed by the actions of the invading Imperialist Powers and their Armenian allies from 1914-22. According to the US demographer, Justin McCarthy,…
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“Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring… Today, as we mourn what was lost, let us also turn our eyes to the future – toward the world that we wish to…
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Presentation made to Conference on the Events of 1915 organised by the Turkish Republic Directorate of Communications on 20th April 2021. Today I’d like to talk about 1915 in the light of recent events in Karabakh. I will ask the question: What do events in Karabakh and the Southern Caucasus tell us about 1915? I…
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There are four maps from the early 20th Century of the South Caucasus region contained within the British archives. The first from 3rd April 1907; a second undated but presumably from 1919 or 1920; a third from 17th July 1922; and a final one from 25th May 1923. They show the national boundaries in the…
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Five years ago, in 2016, President of Ireland Mary McAleese visited Gallipoli as part of her remembrance escapade. I was approached to write an article marking this event because I had written a book a few years earlier on Britain’s Great War on Ottoman Turkey. It seemed a good opportunity to explain what Gallipoli was…
