Alper Ali Riza

If I were the British interior minister, I would deport Assange to Australia and let them extradite him to the US if they can By Alper Ali Riza Julian Assange ...

The truth about the past should be uncovered and made known to people to avoid repetition The human rights lawyer and former candidate for president of the Republic of Cyprus (...

British politics was dominated by racism and anti-semitism last week around the person and politics of Diane Abbott, the first black woman to be elected to the British parliament in 1987 ...

There was a very amusing TV clip on BBC World Service last week in which its man in Beijing, Stephen McDonell asks delegates milling about at the Great Hall of ...

As Palestinians stand on the brink of extinction, their right to a state of their own is vital, League of Arab States tells ICJ In January the International Court of ...

There was pandemonium in the mother of parliaments at Westminster last Wednesday when the Scottish National Party (SNP) was prevented from having a vote on a call for a ceasefire ...

Nato joke aside, Trump’s isolationism nothing new in US Donald Trump’s rant in which he encouraged Russia to attack Nato member states failing to comply with their treaty ...

World leaders have this week shown their vulnerable side Poor King Charles. He was admitted to the London Clinic for a routine procedure to treat a benign prostate condition and ...

History will be made in Ireland when the leader of Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland, Michelle O’Neill, becomes first minister as leader of the largest party in the Northern ...

Israel was ordered to take all measures to prevent all genocidal acts, punish inciting genocide and allow humanitarian aid In a landmark ruling on Friday, the International Court of Justice (...

There were protests outside the British Sovereign Base Area (SBA) at Akrotiri in Cyprus last Sunday about its use in military operations against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and its ...

Freud’s famous observation has always been evident in the Cyprus problem. The new UN envoy will have her work cut out Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar was officially named last ...

A busy couple of weeks for Israel’s legal minds It was an eventful New Year weekend for the legal community in Israel. Her judiciary managed partly to restore her ...

Deaths in ongoing wars have resulted from the mistakes of a handful of politicians. When will they ever learn? Alper Riza’s review of 2023 Reviews of the year are obviously ...

Ironically it also helps the UK According to EU Commission president, the EU’s new pact on migration and asylum will be formulated in a number of regulations and incorporated ...

The aerial bombardment of civilians in densely populated cities began in earnest when Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany came to the assistance of their fellow fascists in Spain and bombed ...

Now he is dead it may be possible for more light to be shed on the true extent to which he manipulated events in Cyprus in 1974 Henry Kissinger died peacefully ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was undiplomatic and rude to cancel a scheduled meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last Monday over a few anodyne remarks he made to ...

Chief medical officer: with hindsight UK went into lockdown a week late By an uncanny coincidence, news emerged from northern China of a new type of unusual pneumonia last week ...

And why would East African Asian refugees support dumping other refugees in a part of the world they themselves were forced to leave? A lot can happen in British politics ...

Decisions were made foolishly, chaotically and with a lot of expletives There is a judge-led inquiry going on in the UK about the central government’s response to the Covid 19 ...

The UN Charter preserves self-defence as an inherent right of states in the event of armed attack. As its name suggests, self-defence is more of a shield than a sword ...

And after his comments on the Israel-Gaza crisis this week, Antonio Guterres is no different Israel called for the resignation of the UN Secretary-General (UNSG), António Guterres, last Tuesday, ...

Israel’s aim is to give vent to rage, revenge and self-defence It has been raining bombs on Gaza for the last two weeks. Bombs dropped by the Israel Defence ...