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What do Turkiye and Indonesia want from bilateral talks?

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  Turkiye and Indonesia aim to deepen cooperation in defence, energy and emerging technologies following high-level talks in Jakarta, as both countries push to expand economic ties in a bid to reach a $10bn bilateral trade target agreed in April last year. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto during an official visit to the capital on Wednesday, according to sources quoted in the Turkish press. Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiono received Fidan on his arrival and held formal talks. Later, Subianto also hosted Fidan. Recommended Stories list of 4 items list 1 of 4 Trump says Iran agreement ‘largely negotiated’, awaiting finalisation list 2 of 4 Istanbul’s Bilgi University reopened after police crackdown list 3 of 4 US Congress moves to deepen military ties with Israel: Why it matters list 4 of 4 Turkiye’s top diplomat, Indonesia’s president discuss $10bn trade goal end of list The meetings focused on increasing collaboration in the defence...
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What the US-Israel war on Iran will not change in the Middle East

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  In every major Middle Eastern war, the same illusion returns: the belief that bombs can rewrite history. The US-Israel war on Iran is rapidly and forcefully redrawing the map of the Middle East in ways previously unseen. Yet there are enduring realities that wars and bombs, no matter how precise, cannot erase or alter. Experts and analysts have not stopped predicting what the region will look like once the fighting ends. Some insist that this war will reshape the Middle East, topple regional axes and produce a new regional order. Part of this is true; historically, major wars leave deep fractures and transformations in maps, systems and demographics. But there is also a methodological illusion that accompanies every war: the belief that it can wipe everything away and produce a blank page on which a new beginning of history can be written, even though history itself repeatedly disproves such illusions. Recommended Stories list of 4 items list 1 of 4 Iran ⁠restores some gas produc...
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Gaza is being offered coercion, not reconstruction

  For months, Gaza has all but vanished into a diplomatic black hole. While the enclave has endured unprecedented destruction, mass displacement and institutional collapse, the political initiatives supposedly designed to address the catastrophe have remained paralysed. Then in late May, Nickolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace’s high representative for Gaza and a former United Nations Middle East envoy, returned with a 15-point framework, presented as a roadmap to stability, governance and reconstruction. But beneath the bureaucratic language and carefully staged sequencing lies a starkly different reality: The plan does not aim to rebuild Gaza. It aims to coerce it. Reconstruction has been transformed from a humanitarian obligation into a political weapon. Recommended Stories list of 4 items list 1 of 4 For third year in a row, Israel blocks Hajj pilgrimage for Gaza Muslims list 2 of 4 Gaza families reunite years after babies evacuated amid Israel’s war list 3 of 4 Born during Israe...
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