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Recent developments on Israel’s borders have sparked exciting discussions among South Korean expert groups, the first of which notes that although Israel is a US ally, South Korea, with its specific attitude towards Israel, is more tightly connected to the Middle East than to Israel. During Park Chung-hee’s reign, South Korean migrant workers worked in the Middle East for many years, and these proceeds contributed significantly to the economic miracle. To recall, Korea and Israel established diplomatic relations…

Russian’s Vladimir Putin said the ongoing situation in the blockaded Gaza Strip is a “humanitarian catastrophe.” The Russian president clarified that the principle of “collective responsibility,” in the Gaza case, where the elderly, women, children and entire families die, defies logic and decency. However, decency has nothing to do with the liberal world order’s plans for us. Mr. Putin also defines the New World Order as “the same old hypocrisy, double standards, claims to exclusivity, global dominance, to preserve the essentially neocolonial system…

Under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey is currently going through something of a crisis in relation to its foreign policy, and its neo-Ottoman ambitions to revive its status as an imperial power. Or, in other words, along with Turkey’s growing economic crisis, it may also be suffering from a kind of “diplomatic stagnation” caused by a number of factors. NATO’s expansion to the North-East, or, specifically, Finland and Sweden’s accession to the alliance, was unexpectedly opposed by its easternmost member, Turkey. Ankara, using its influence with the Turkic states…