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Robert Ellis
(An analyst and commentator on Turkish affairs. He is also an International Advisor at the Research Institute for European and Studies in Athens)

Copyright: @ 2025 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 24 March 2025

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies

In the early hours of Wednesday morning 106 suspects, including the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoǧlu, were detained in two investigations launched by the Istanbul public prosecutor’s office. Imamoǧlu was accused of corruption and support for terrorism. The reaction was not long in coming.... Read more

Robert Ellis
(Turkey analyst and commentator, and also an international advisor at the Research Institute for European and American Studies in Athens)

Copyright: @ 2025 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 7 April 2025

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies

If the celebrated historian, Barbara Tuchman, author of The Guns of August, lived today, she would undoubtedly update The March of Folly, which was published in 1984. This deals with the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests, from Troy to Vietnam, and an update would undoubtedly include events from the last decade. ... Read more

Robert Ellis
(An analyst and commentator on Turkish affairs. He is also an International Advisor at the Research Institute for European and Studies in Athens)

Copyright: @ 2025 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr)
Publication date: 19 May 2025

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies

Friday’s collapse of the projected peace talks between the two leaders, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, does not conceal the fact there was no problem in agreeing on Istanbul as the venue. This underlines the role that Erdoǧan’s Turkey would like to play as the mediator between East and West.
A recent analysis by Fatih Yurtsever (a pseudonym) in Turkish Minute explores the paradox between Erdoǧan’s role as the mediator abroad and the strongman at home, and concludes: “Whether Erdoğan’s growing international stature can be reconciled with Turkey’s democratic decline — or whether it simply fortifies his grip on power — remains the defining paradox of his leadership”.... Read more

erdoganRobert Ellis
(Turkey analyst and commentator and an international advisor at the Research Institute for European and American Studies in Athens)

Copyright: @ 2025 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 19 July 2025

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies

The intention of Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan must be apparent. The process that began on March 19 with the detention and later arrest of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoǧlu has developed into a full-scale war with the intent of dismantling Turkey’s secular opposition, the CHP (Republican People’s Party), founded by Atatürk.
Imamoǧlu was prevented from running in the 2023 presidential elections because he remarked that those who cancelled the 2019 mayoral elections in Istanbul were fools. However, in a re-run Imamoǧlu trounced the AKP opposition and again in the 2024 mayoral elections.... Read more

(The Matrix world behind the Brexit and the US Elections)

Hannes Grassegger and Mikael Krogerus
(Investigative journalists attached to the Swiss-based Das Magazin specialized journal. The original text appeared in the late December edition under the title: “I only showed that the bomb exists” (Ich habe nur gezeigt, dass es die Bombe gibt). This, English translation, is based on the subsequent January version, first published by the Motherboard magazine (titled: The Data That Turned the World Upside Down). Approved, present is the advanced version of the original Zurich text for the MD. Additional research for this report was provided by Paul-Olivier Dehaye).

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 12 February 2017.

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS).

“Aegean theater of the Antique Greece was the place of astonishing revelations and intellectual excellence – a remarkable density and proximity, not surpassed up to our age. All we know about science, philosophy, sports, arts, culture and entertainment, stars and earth has been postulated, explored and examined then and there....Read more

(Refeudalisation of Europe – I Part)

Anis H. Bajrektarevic
(Chairperson and professor in international law and global political studies, Vienna, Austria. He authored three books: FB – Geopolitics of Technology (published by the New York’s Addleton Academic Publishers); Geopolitics – Europe 100 years later (DB, Europe), and the just released Geopolitics – Energy – Technology by the German publisher LAP. No Asian century is his forthcoming book, scheduled for later this year)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr)Publication date: 17 April 2017

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS).

The lonely superpower (US) vs. the bear of the permafrost (Russia), with the world’s last cosmopolite (EU) in between. Is the ongoing calamity at the eastern flank of the EU a conflict, recalibration, imperialism in hurry, exaggerated anti-Russian xenophobia or last gasp of confrontational nostalgia?
Just 20 years ago, the distance between Moscow and NATO troops stationed in Central Europe (e.g., Berlin) was more than 1.600 km. Today, it is only 120 km from St. Petersburg. Is this a time to sleep or to worry? ‘Russia no longer represents anything that appeals to anyone other than ethnic Russians, and as a result, the geopolitical troubles it can cause will remain on Europe’s periphery, without touching the continent’s core’ – was the line of argumentation recently used by Richard N. Haass, President of the US Council of Foreign Relations. Is it really so? ...Read more

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