Armament in Mideast, Asia-Pacific could bring world to ‘edge of cliff,’ Turkish foreign minister warns

Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday said that armament in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region is on the rise and warned that this could bring the world on the “edge of the cliff, ending up with a nuclear war threat,” Anadolu Agency reports. “As history reminds us, the vicious circle of armament race and mistrust can bring the world on the edge of the cliff, ending up with the nuclear war threat,” Fidan said at TRT World Forum 2024 in Istanbul. Stressing that the global system is facing two conventional wars simultaneously, all of which have global repercussions, Fidan said Turkiye is “just at the center of these wars.” “The stability in the Middle East, South Caucasus, and the […]