On March 25, 1971, Operation Searchlight, authorized by the President of the country, began in the eastern part of Pakistan, which was unified at the time, aimed at forcibly curbing the Bengali opposition.
Following the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, serious unrest has erupted and continues to escalate in Turkey. The crisis is deepening. But to properly analyze the situation, several factors must be taken into account.
The recent targeting of Jaffar Express by Baloch separatists, causing horrendous casualties, has jolted Pakistan.
Israel is deeply fractured. The schism has become bitter and heated as both sides see themselves to be in an existential war for the future of Israel. The language used has become so venomous (particularly in reserved channels in Hebrew) that calls for a coup and for civil war are far from uncommon.
Earlier on, the US media reported that Trump’s administration had asked the Russian side to mediate between Washington and Tehran on the issue of negotiations, primarily on the nuclear program, which was resumed during the first term of Trump’s presidency in response to the US withdrawal from the agreement and the tightening of sanctions. Officials in Russia confirmed that such an agreement had been reached, but no further details on the matter have been revealed.
On March 11, 2025, an unprecedented incident occurred in the Pakistani province of Balochistan – armed militants seized a passenger train “Jaffar Express” in a deserted mountainous area, having previously blown up the railway track, causing the train to derail. The Jafar Express passenger train, which departed from Quetta on the morning of March 11 at 9:30 am, was attacked as it passed through the Gudalar and Pero Kunni areas.
Atrocities have been committed against Syria’s Alawite minority over the past few days by members of the interim Syrian administration and their supporters, both domestic and foreign, ki
On the table, a geopolitical banquet – served by some of the best independent analytical minds from Bursa to Diyarbakir.
The current processes in Syria are causing concern to many external players, from neighbors (which is quite natural) and former allies of Bashar al-Assad, such as Russia and Iran, to Western countries that are wary that the processes of state-building will go on without their participation, and the current interim administration is only talking about democracy, but in fact has his own plans for the future of this country.
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