News in Review 2025/07/27
Turkish Foreign Minister: We have detected movements in Syria and warn against its division
RT, 2025/7/26 - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that his country has detected movements in northern, southern, eastern and western Syria after the conflict that took place between Bedouin and Druze tribes in the southern Syrian governorate of Suwayda. Fidan said that Ankara "warned of the danger of dividing Syria after monitoring groups exploiting what happened in Suwayda," saying: "As Turkey, we had to issue a warning and we did so, because we want Syria's unity and integrity." He stressed the importance of Syria to Turkish national security, stressing "the importance of unity, order and peace in the countries neighboring Turkey." He added that "Turkey's primary goal is to ensure peace, stability and security in the region."
Referring to the West's satisfaction with the government of Ahmed al-Shara, he pointed out that "Syria is witnessing the launch of a process with the support of Turkey, the countries of the region, the European Union and the United States." He continued: "We have always seen that there are parties that can benefit from the division of Syria, from its instability, and from its failure to recover, and that they want Syria to remain mired in a pit of despair, frustration and negativity."
He spoke frankly about the intentions of the Jewish entity to divide Syria and that it does not like to see Turkey's success in establishing al-Shara's rule in Syria with the support of America, whose president, Trump, received Ahmed al-Shara in Saudi Arabia and temporarily lifted the sanctions on Syria to see Turkey's success through diplomacy in establishing American influence in Syria, and Fidan mentioned that the events in Suwayda have revived the issue of dividing Syria.
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Hamas: Trump and Witkoff's statements are inconsistent with the course of the negotiation track
Anatolia Agency, 2025/7/26 - On Saturday, Hamas said that the statements of US President Donald Trump and his envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, which claimed that the movement refused to reach a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, "contradict the assessment of the mediators and are inconsistent with the course of the negotiation track, which was witnessing actual progress."
This came in a statement issued by the movement's leader, Izzat al-Rishq, in which he pointed to the movement's surprise at the statements issued by Trump and Witkoff.
On Friday, Trump claimed that Hamas did not really want to reach a deal, to justify the withdrawal of the delegations of the United States and the Jewish entity from the Doha negotiations on the return of prisoners and a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Witkoff had claimed that Hamas's recent response shows "a lack of desire to reach an agreement." Meaning that he did not see in her response the agreement to surrender as America and the Jewish entity want.
Al-Rishq added that Trump and Witkoff's statements came at a time when the mediating parties, especially Qatar and Egypt, "were expressing their satisfaction and appreciation for our serious and constructive position."
From another angle, sources in the Jewish entity were quoting the government as saying that Hamas's response can be built upon and that it contains positives, which increases the strangeness of the American position, which took the initiative to withdraw from the negotiations, forcing the Jewish entity to withdraw its delegation from Doha.
Regardless of the American goal behind all of this, it should be very wary that this decision leaves the people of the Gaza Strip under severe famine, which may be a motivation to displace them under the pretext of food.
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France sounds the alarm.. The first population deficit in the country in 80 years
Euronews, 2025/7/25 - In a historic shift with disturbing implications, France recorded more deaths than births in one year, for the first time since 1945. France was one of the few countries in Europe to maintain positive population growth, albeit small.
According to figures published by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies INSEE, 651,000 deaths were recorded compared to 650,000 births during a full year ending May 31, 2025, which means a demographic deficit of one thousand people.
This means that the shift towards a population deficit, which is new in France, has entered it into the club of the elderly. Thus, France in 2025 has rapidly entered the Western aging club, which was expected to enter in 2035, that is, ten full years earlier, and this illustrates the seriousness and acceleration of the decline in fertility, as the French woman gives birth to her first child at the age of 29.
It is worth noting, and this is very important, that we are talking about "Greater France", that is, mainland France and its dependent territories, which contain indigenous non-French peoples, those indigenous peoples who have a higher fertility rate, in addition to about six million Muslims inside mainland France who have a high fertility rate, were covering up a sharp decline in births among "native French", that is, of French nationality.
This population deficit, which has accelerated since 2022, after which France loses 30,000 births annually, puts France into the club of countries that are permanently population-deficient and threatens a decline in its workforce in the short and medium term and loses its economy's ability to natural growth associated with the workforce.
