In 2023; new battlefields, coups, rebellions, conflicts, hunger, commercial congestion, we have witnessed many events such as high inflation, bankruptcy of banks, etc. Our wish is 2024 year will bring peace, tranquility and happiness to the whole world and humanity, and that the problems to be the year in which it will be resolved and create a more just and prosperous environment.
In the last What's the World Talking About Report of 2023, the Palestinian-Israeli War and Houthi attacks on merchant ships in Yemen came to the fore. In Gaza As the intensity of the massacre increases day by day, the Houthis in the Yemeni region, Attack on commercial cargo ships believed to belong to Israel or shipping to Israel organised by the Houthis, was widely echoed. The Houthis said that as long as the Israeli attacks continued that it will continue to target commercial vessels passing through the Babulmendep Strait announced. Babulmendep, which has a critical importance in the global maritime trade route the Strait became inactive after the attacks and global trade and even reduced the length of its route.
Bayraktar, which is produced by our country and has undergone successful operations in many battlefields .Our TB-2 model armed unmanned aerial vehicle is being followed by many countries. It is more cost-effective than similar armed unmanned aerial vehicles and is more preferred when its reliability is taken into consideration. Baykar Technology's armed unmanned aerial vehicles developed and produced by more countries is expected to be in demand.
Negative news continues to come from Germany. Retail trade many sectors are working to increase product prices. IFO Institute Price expectation, one of the indicators developed for the German business community According to the indicator, price expectations in construction, services, food and manufacturing sectors scores rose. In addition, Germany's trade during this period when the New Year holidays started the expected increase in activity was not as anticipated.
China's import ban on Japanese seafood has provoked reactions.Some experts have argued that the import ban is in response to Japan's decision to dump treated nuclear waste into the sea. claimed that it was brought in due to its emptying. China had previously claimed that Covid-19 to Australia, which has asked for an international investigation into the origin of the imposed some import restrictions, which is now being used as an economic weapon used by the police.