On August 25, 26 and 27, 2023, Dr.Telman Nusratoghlu, the head of the Department of History and Archeology, as a guest on the news programs of Türkiye's CNN Turk, TGRT Haber, BBN Turk and Azerbaijan's ARB24 channels, talked about the influence of the events in Russia, the plane crash involving the leaders of the Wagner military group on the internal political processes in Russia and the course of the Ukrainian war.