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Indonesia Leads ASEAN Push as Turkey Joins, Defense Pacts Signed, South Korea Deal Sped Up
Indonesia is spearheading a major diplomatic and security push across Southeast Asia, as Turkey officially joins ASEAN as a dialogue partner, Jakarta ratifies defense pacts with Turkey and Malaysia, and accelerates defense and investment deals with South Korea.
Global Crises Converge: Wars, Oil Shocks, and Climate Disasters Reshape the World Order
A cascade of escalating military conflicts, surging energy prices, and accelerating climate emergencies is shattering the global order, pushing the world econom…
Global Crises Converge: Oil at $100, Wars Escalate, and a Planet Burns
A cascade of collapsing ceasefires, escalating military conflicts, and a rapidly accelerating climate emergency is shattering the global order, pushing energy m…
Turkey’s Framework Law: No General Amnesty, Only PKK Clause in 15-Article Draft
Turkey’s long-awaited “Framework Law” is in its final stage of preparation and does not include a general amnesty, a senior official has confirmed, with the 15-…
Global Crises Converge: Wars, Oil Blockades, and Climate Disasters Reshape the World Order
A cascade of collapsing ceasefires, escalating military conflicts, and a rapidly accelerating climate emergency is shattering the global order, pushing energy m…
CHP Implodes: 91 MPs Jump Ship to Özel’s New “YENİ” Party, Opposition in Ruins
Turkey’s main opposition party has collapsed from within as its former leader Özgür Özel resigned and launched a new party called “YENİ,” taking 91 lawmakers wi…
Global Health Emergency: How War, Climate Collapse, and Profit-Driven Systems Are Crushing the World’s Most Vulnerable
Access to healthcare has never been more unequal. As wars rage, the climate collapses, and global supply chains shatter, the world’s most vulnerable people are …
War, Oil, and a Planet in Flames: How a System Built on Profit Is Crushing the World’s Most Vulnerable
A cascade of collapsing ceasefires, escalating military conflicts, and a rapidly accelerating climate emergency is shattering the global order, pushing energy m…
Global Crises Converge: War in the Middle East, a Drone War in Ukraine, and a Planet in Flames Reshape the World Order
A cascade of collapsing ceasefires, escalating military conflicts, and a rapidly accelerating climate emergency is shattering the global order, pushing energy m…
Oil Wars, Starving Millions: How a System Built on Profit Is Crushing the Global Economy
A cascade of converging crises—open warfare in the Middle East, a devastating drone war in Ukraine, and an accelerating climate emergency—is shattering the glob…
Niger Junta’s 3-Year Cash Grab: 1,000 Dead, 18 Exiles Stripped, New Law Locks Up Critics
Niger’s military junta has spent three years turning the country into a personal wealth-extraction machine, gutting democratic checks and using security threats…
War, Profit, and a Planet in Flames: How a Broken System Is Fueling a Global Health Emergency
Access to healthcare has never been more unequal. As wars rage, the climate collapses, and global supply chains shatter, the world’s most vulnerable people are …
War, Oil, and a Planet in Flames: How a System Built on Profit Is Crushing the World’s Most Vulnerable
A cascade of collapsing ceasefires, escalating military conflicts, and a rapidly accelerating climate emergency is shattering the global order, pushing energy m…
War, Oil Blockades, and a Planet in Flames: How a System Built on Profit Is Crushing the World’s Most Vulnerable
A cascade of collapsing ceasefires, escalating military conflicts, and a rapidly accelerating climate emergency is shattering the global order, pushing energy m…
War, Oil, and a Planet in Flames: How a Broken Global System Is Crushing the World’s Most Vulnerable
The world is being pulled apart by a cascade of converging crises—collapsing ceasefires, raging wars, and an accelerating climate emergency—that are pushing ene…
Oil at $95 and Rising: How War, Blockades, and a System Built on Profit Are Crushing the Global Economy
A cascade of collapsing ceasefires, escalating military conflicts, and a rapidly accelerating climate emergency is shattering the global economic order, pushing…
Turkey Detains 2 Journalists in 2 Months Over ‘Insult’ Charges; 119 Others Held in IS Sweep
Turkish authorities have arrested a journalist for sharing a colleague’s pre-arrest social media post, while a Deutsche Welle correspondent has been re-detained…
A World Held Hostage: War, Oil Blockades, and a Broken System Crush the World’s Most Vulnerable
A cascade of collapsing ceasefires, escalating military conflicts, and a rapidly accelerating climate emergency is shattering the global order, pushing energy m…
Global Crises Converge: War, Oil Blockades, and Climate Disasters Reshape the World Order
A cascade of collapsing ceasefires, escalating military conflicts, and a deepening climate emergency is shattering the global order, pushing energy markets into…
95 MPs Ditch Kılıçdaroğlu, 90+ Sign Up for Özel’s New Party as Mass Defection Begins
A massive split has erupted in Turkey’s main opposition party, with 95 lawmakers backing leader Özgür Özel while 21 remain loyal to former leader Kemal Kılıçdar…
Editorials
# The Unlikely Alliance: Why Trump Admires Erdoğan
**Introduction** When Donald Trump was asked in 2019 why he had such a warm relationship with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his answer was blunt: “I’m a realist. ” That brief remark hints at a deeper, more pragmatic calculus behind one of modern geopolitics’ most puzzling friendships.
# Could Turkey and Israel Go to War? The Rising Risk of a New Middle Eastern Conflict
**Introduction** For decades, the relationship between Turkey and Israel has oscillated between strategic partnership and bitter rivalry. Today, that rivalry has reached its most dangerous point in modern history.