Hüseyin Özdemir

Hüseyin Özdemir is a researcher at TRT World Research Centre. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Hacettepe University. He is a recent Master of Arts graduate from the National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg) and focused on the Comparative Politics of Eurasia during his time studying in Russia. His research interests are Eurasian Politics (focused on Russia, Turkey, and Eastern Europe), Public Diplomacy, and the Media.
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The ‘Uberisation’ of Warfare: How Ukraine’s Drone Revolution Is Rewriting Modern War

Armin Papperger, the chief executive of German arms giant Rheinmetall, recently dismissed Ukraine’s drone manufacturing revolution as equivalent to "playing with Legos", derogatorily attributing...

From Reshuffle to Strategy: Ukraine’s Recalibration in a Prolonged War

As Ukraine enters its fifth year of full-scale war, the administration in Kyiv has undertaken its most consequential executive restructuring since February 2022. While...

Endgame in Ukraine: Exploring Diplomatic Solutions to a Global Crisis

The Ukraine-Russia conflict, now in its eleventh year since the 2014 annexation of Crimea, has evolved into a protracted and devastating war with no...

A Littoral Solution: Türkiye’s Role in a Safer Black Sea

The war in Ukraine is not only fought on land but also at sea, where control of shipping routes through the Black Sea has...

The End of Quiet Diplomacy: The Fallout of a Brutal Raid on Russia–Azerbaijan Relations

Two brothers, Huseyn and Ziyaddin Safarov, brutally beaten and left to die after a Russian police raid in Yekaterinburg, have become the unexpected epicentre...

Russia’s Maximalist Designs Leave the World One Option: Maximum Diplomacy

It is rare for the mask to slip so completely, but Vladimir Putin’s recent declaration that “the whole of Ukraine is ours”—made during his...

The Istanbul Moment: Between Drones and Diplomacy

By all appearances, the Ukraine war is advancing along a deeply unsettling trajectory, one where the fear of escalation is no longer escalating. Paradoxically,...

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