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Turkish foreign policy has undergone constant transformation under President Erdoğan’s rule since 2002. Zero problem with neighbors, trading state, neo-Ottomanism, and precious loneliness are some well-known terms coined to symbolize the periods of this transformation. President Erdoğan and his close circle lead this change in interaction with global developments and domestic politics.

Almanya'nın Nisan 2026'da yayımlanan yeni askeri stratejisi ("Gesamtkonzeption militärische Verteidigung"), ülkenin savunma politikasında bir dönüm noktasını temsil etmektedir. Federal Cumhuriyet tarihinde bir ilk olan bu kapsamlı doküman, değişen küresel güvenlik mimarisine ve özellikle Rusya'dan kaynaklanan artan tehditlere karşı Berlin'in yanıtını oluşturmaktadır.

Suriname, a small South American country of roughly 640,000 people located between Guyana and French Guiana, is about to become rich. In October 2024, the French oil major TotalEnergies and its American partner APA Corporation committed $10.5 billion to a single deepwater project off its coast. When production begins in 2028, the country will pump 220,000 barrels a day. Revenue over the life of the field could reach $26 billion, more than six times the size of Suriname’s current $4.3 billion economy.

“Türkiye’den 1 milyar doların yanı sıra, en güzel kadınını da kendime eş olarak istiyorum.” diye sosyal medyadan tehditler savuran Uganda Genelkurmay Başkanı Muhoozi Kainerugaba’nın sözleri Türkiye’de alay konusu oldu.

While it remains too early to fully assess the long-term consequences of the Gaza war, one outcome is obvious: whatever Hamas hoped to achieve on October 7, the fallout has significantly undermined Iran's quasi-hegemonic position in the region.

The Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously defined war not merely as an act of violence, but as "the continuation of politics by other means" — an extension of diplomacy rather than its abandonment. Wars are not fought to satisfy some destructive impulse, nor do states enter conflict for its own sake.

İstanbul’da Ukrayna operasyonları kapsamında Deniz Unsur Komutanlığı ve Adana’da Çok Uluslu NATO Karargahı kurulacağı yönündeki haberler kamuoyunda tartışmaya neden oldu. Türk halkı doğal olarak bölgede biri bitip öbürü başlayan savaşlara ülkenin sürüklenmesinden endişe ediyor.

The Nipepe plant is the clearest signal yet that Beijing is extending its control over critical mineral supply chains beyond Chinese borders, moving upstream into African extraction and processing at the precise moment Western operators have pulled back. The implications for the global battery supply chain, and for European and American efforts to diversify away from Chinese mineral dependence, are significant.

Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan exclave contains neither U.S. nor other foreign military bases, contrary to the Iranian official narrative. What motivated the Iranian regime to target a civilian airport and a school in Nakhchivan on 5 March?

Bu hafta içi uzmanlarımızla bir anket daha yaptık. Katılımcılara 1- İran’da rejim yıkılır mı, 2- Yakın dönemde bir ateşkes olur mu, 3- ABD kara harekatı yapar ve savaş uzar mı diye soruldu.

Turkey’s expanding role in the Horn of Africa is no longer limited to diplomacy or development assistance. It has become a security actor in the region’s civil wars. The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Israel are also taking more active positions in these conflicts.

The redeployment of U.S. missile defense assets, including Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) batteries and Patriot systems from South Korea to the Middle East has triggered understandable concern in Seoul.