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Türkiye in Focus
14 August 2026 Edition
This week we cover:
- A Historic Step Towards Permanent Resolution: Parliamentary Consensus and a New Era
- The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement as a Concrete Step Towards Stability Amid a Fracturing Middle Eastern Security Architecture
- Operation Against the Alihan Kuriş Criminal Network
Podcasts
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Choke Points and Chain Reactions: Has Energy Dependence Become the Ultimate Weapon of War?
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America’s Missing Strategic Scientists: Is Israel the Possibility No One Wants to Discuss?
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Gaza’s Hunger Crisis: Israel’s War on Access and Survival
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Iran After Khamenei: Power, Factions, and the IRGC
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The Epstein Files: New York Secret Tunnels, Blackmail, and the Architecture of Global Power
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Trumpism Reloaded: America’s Role in a Fragmenting World Order
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Turning Point in the Euphrates: The PKK Collapse and the Rebirth of Syrian Sovereignty
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Iran’s Current Protests: Economic Pressures and Institutional Strains
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Operation Absolute Resolve: Why the US Captured Maduro, the Delta Force Raid, and the Battle for Oil Reserves
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Israel’s Skin Bank Paradox and Organ Harvesting Allegations
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Breaking or Bending: Rethinking Sanctions, Trade, and the Future of Global Markets
The Mecca Pact: Taking Security into Regional Hands
The agreement signed last week in Mecca by Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, formally known as the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement or, more simply,...
Beyond the American Umbrella: What the Mecca Accord reveals about a...
Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate
The Mecca Accord represents a fundamental transition from passive security consumption to proactive regional production, where middle powers leverage...
A Deficit of Coherence? Türkiye and the Search for American Strategic...
Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate
The United States is experiencing a structural rationality crisis where its immense geopolitical power is no longer guided by...
The Price of Passage: Iran’s Hormuz Strategy
The escalation of the US-Israel war on Iran has thrust the world into uncharted geopolitical waters, transforming the Strait of Hormuz from a bustling...
From Protection to Integration: Colombia’s Migration Experiment
Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate
The Colombian model represents a fundamental shift from security-centred deterrence to socioeconomic regularisation, yet it risks institutional fragmentation if national policy objectives outpace local service capacity. This...
Starved Twice: How Gaza’s Food Crisis Became a Weapon of War
Gaza’s worsening food crisis cannot be explained by shortage alone. This analysis argues that access restrictions, supply disruption, price inflation and infrastructure collapse have turned hunger into a broader crisis of survival, deepened by the wider regional escalation following the US/Israel War on Iran.
Governing the Algorithm: Muslim, Catholic, and Jewish Visions for Ethical AI
Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate
The pursuit of technological sovereignty and AI-enabled military precision creates a profound ethical contradiction, as state actors and commercial...
The Hejaz Railway and the New Silk Route of the Middle East
On June 9, Türkiye’s Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu signed a memorandum of understanding with his Saudi counterpart Saleh Bin Nasser al-Jasser to...
Beyond the Myths: Protecting Climate Migrants in a Warming World
As climate shocks intensify, displacement is rising, yet global discourse is driven more by political fear than facts. Though most climate-displaced people stay within...
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