Articles

Turkey’s stand-off with Greece and Cyprus in the Mediterranean

Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

The EU Council issued a statement on 14th August reaffirming its ‘full solidarity with Greece and Cyprus’.¹ The statement reiterated that ‘sovereign rights of EU member states must be respected’.² It stressed that ‘Imm....

August 18, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , Turkey , Kemal Ataturk , EU , Erdogan , Greece , France , Cyprus , Mediteranian , Ottoman Empire

Happenings Concerning Hagia Sofia Call for India’s Moral Voice

Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Commentary

Turkey's recent decision to convert the iconic Hagia Sofia museum into a mosque is condemnable. It marks yet another move by Erdogan's Turkey to turn its back on the measures, admired the world over, taken by Kemal Ataturk to turn Turkey into a truly....

July 15, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , China , Turkey , Kemal Ataturk , Uighurs , Erdogan , Islamization , UNESCO World Heritage site , mosque

War Against Daesh (ISIS) – An Assessment of Mosul Campaign

Dr Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

After having crushed the concept of the Caliphate little over 90 years ago by Kemal Ataturk, the first president of the modern-day Turkey, a renewed effort was made by a newly-founded Sunni militant group, which, today, is known by the name Islamic S....

November 13, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Mosul , Iraq , Daesh , ISIS , IS , Al Baghdadi , Peshmerga , Mosul Campaign , Alvite Singh , Kemal Ataturk