Analysis
Iran, which for various reasons has always been one of the important items on the agenda of international politics, has in recent years frequently come to the fore with debates about the regime and, most recently, with street demonstrations. In fact, these debates are not new; they have a history going back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution…
Kürşat Güneş
Analysis
The first half of the 2020s witnessed two hot conflicts that profoundly shook world politics: the war launched by Russia against Ukraine and the Israel–Iran conflict that recently broke out. Although these two fronts lie in geographically different regions, in terms of international balances and economic interests…
Hasan Hüseyin Güneş
Report
On 22.06.2025, US President Donald Trump announced that American bombers had struck 3 Iranian nuclear facilities. Trump stated that the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities had been struck successfully, and threatened that, should Iran retaliate in any way against the US, it would…
Prof. Veysel Ayhan
Analysis
Over the past few decades, Iran was at the centre of Israel’s regional policies; Tel Aviv made intensive efforts to break Iran’s influence and to limit the axis of resistance it supports. With the shift in the regional balance of power and the emergence of new challenges, however, Israel has moved beyond a strategy focused solely on Iran…
Dr Gülşen Y. Sağlam
Report
On the morning of 13 June, the Israeli Armed Forces carried out a multidimensional, high-intensity air attack against the Islamic Republic of Iran. This attack came after the decision taken by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that Iran had violated its obligations relating to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons…
Prof. Veysel Ayhan
Report
At the end of 2024, the geopolitical transformations in the Middle East, particularly with the collapse of the Syrian regime, led to fundamental changes in the regional balance of power. One of the countries most affected by these transformations was Lebanon. In Lebanon, this transition period took place amid a domestic political crisis…
Dr Gülşen Y. Sağlam
Analysis
Trade wars existed long before the emergence of modern societies. One of them is the Opium Wars waged with China in the 19th century. The British dispatch of opium produced in India to China over many years, and the Chinese emperor’s refusal to accept it any longer, led to a development that culminated in war…
Assoc. Prof. Müslüm Basılgan
Analysis
On 21 July, following intense criticism, President Biden announced his withdrawal from the election to be held on 5 November. Biden stated that he had withdrawn his presidential candidacy of his own free will. As Biden’s withdrawal is a rare event in American history, it has also raised many questions with regard to electoral law…
Samir Altunkaynak
Article
In examining the present-day economic and social position of women, the historical process must be taken into account, because gender roles and patriarchy are not concepts that have existed since the dawn of humankind. In primitive nomadic societies there was no inequality in gender relations in the present-day…
Songül Ceren Özkan
Analysis
The concept of gender was first addressed in Ann Oakley’s book ‘Sex, Gender and Society’. In this context, unlike sex, which determines being female (woman) or male (man), gender refers to the femininity and masculinity produced cumulatively by socially constructed structures of thought and behaviour…
Songül Ceren Özkan
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