Alper Ali Riza

When devising the executive branch of government in 1789 the founding fathers of the American constitution were anxious to avoid creating an all-powerful monarch like the English king from whom they ...

So why are the Israelis still bombing Gaza? US foreign minister Anthony Blinken was first on the Gaza ceasefire bandwagon last week. Israel and Hamas are right on the brink ...

Greenland is a Danish island colony in the North Atlantic within the Arctic Circle that owing to its location and sparse population survived the winds of change of decolonisation after ...

The surrender of sovereignty over the whole of Cyprus is an existential obstacle that no Greek Cypriot leader could surmount In his traditional Christmas homily Archbishop Georgios of Cyprus expressed ...

As the old year gives way to the new and a new American president is about to come to power with a mandate to make America great again (MAGA) it ...

Zenon Stavrinides, the well-known Greek Cypriot intellectual and Cyprob aficionado, passed away last October aged 78 and my column this week is in celebration of his life. He was the eldest ...

The irony of the overthrow of the Syrian dictator Bashar Assad last Sunday is that he fled to Russia as a refugee after he turned his people into refugees and ...

Last week President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter for offences of failing to disclose he was a drug addict to obtain a gun, tax evasion and any federal offences ...

Arrest warrants were issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on November 21, 2024 against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes ...

Donald Trump’s refusal to engage in a smooth transfer of power during the interregnum in 2020-21 pales into insignificance compared with President Joe Biden’s sabotage of Trump’s ...

There are rights recognised as enforceable human rights and there are rights that are informal and unenforceable. The right to die which is no longer a crime in many countries ...

Donald Trump won the 2024 US presidential election fair and square. His opponent, Vice President (VP) Kamala Harris, graciously conceded defeat by first congratulating him privately and then conceding defeat publicly ...

In democracies people get the leaders they deserve Standards in public life have reached rock bottom in the US and UK. A convicted felon is poised to win the US ...

Antonio Guterres is probably the best UN secretary-general since Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden who was killed in an air crash trying to bring peace to the Congo. Guterres’ attendance ...

Last week the English Football Association (FA) threw caution to the wind and appointed a German to manage the English national team. He is Thomas Tuchel, a professional football manager ...

Recent legal opinion on citizenship at EU court should be ignored It seems selling ‘golden passports’ was lawful after all. On October 4, 2024 Anthony Collins, an Advocate General in the EU, ...

Britain will hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius while retaining delegated sovereignty over Diego Garcia, a joint British American military base Britain withheld ...

There is a scandal in the making in UK in the ‘glasses for passes’ affair now in its second week which does not look as though it will go away ...

In a unanimous and trenchant judgment, the Supreme Constitutional Court of Cyprus sitting as a discrete Council in an application to dismiss the auditor-general for misconduct decided on Wednesday that ...

Before saying anything about the Great Debate in the US last week between the best-looking old man Donald Trump and the best-looking fifty-something woman, a few words about the way ...

But families still waiting for justice seven years later Judge-led inquiries that investigate events that cause serious loss of life are part of the procedural aspect of the right to ...

Like the Titanic the super yacht Bayesian that sank off the coast of Sicily in a freak weather event on August 19 was virtually unsinkable. But it sank and seven passengers ...

Vice President Kamala Harris is now the Democratic Party’s official candidate for president. In her acceptance speech, she introduced herself as if she were a complete unknown even though ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the American historian Francis Fukuyama called it the end of history. Liberal democracy had triumphed as the ideal system of government having seen off ...