For 🇹🇷 watchers- an authoritative depiction of the country’s bustling defense industry.

Introspective/exclusive debates about 🇪🇺, European defense, & the European pillar (of #NATO ) might find it eye opening, especially w/ 🇹🇷 still prioritizing partnerships with NATO Allie’s.

I was in Ann Arbor during Vietnam. But since then never have I seen any foreign policy issue roil domestic waters like the Israel-Hamas war. Not even when Americans were fighting, dying and killing thousands of Afghan/Iraqi civilians in the two longest wars in America's history.

This rivalry will not go away easily. Many questions loom. Do we have a shared understanding of the European pillar, i.e., are non-EU Allie’s like 🇹🇷 included? What about the impact of the Cyprus problem on NATO-EU rels or the future of transatlantic rels under a Trump 2 era?

Dışişleri şehitlerinin anısına sahip çıkan Başkan Mansur Yavaş’a sonsuz teşekkürler.

Some thoughts on #Turkey ’s priorities in the selection of NATO’s next Secretary General together with FATİH CEYLAN for Al-Monitor’s superb Ezgi Akın

24 Nisan ANZAC Anma Günü vesilesiyle yaptığı özensiz açıklamasıyla, ABD Dışişleri Bakanı Secretary Antony Blinken vahim bir hataya imza atmış. Hayret verici ve üzücü

Avustralya ve Yeni Zelanda’yla ittifak dayanışması namına, ABD’nin Çanakkale/Gelibolu muharebelerinde ANZAC’larla…

The deepening of 🇨🇳🇷🇺 alignment is one of the most consequential geopolitical outcomes of Russia's war against Ukraine. How so, and why is this important? I wrote about it in a new essay for Foreign Affairs. Some key takeaways in a🧵1/20 foreignaffairs.com/china/putin-an…

My take for Project Syndicate on Turkey's rather consequential local elections.
project-syndicate.org/commentary/tur…

Historic night for Turkey’s opposition. Shocking and worst defeat for Erdogan’s AKP since coming to power 22 years ago. CHP won: five largest Turkish cities & others including some quite pious Anatolian ones (Adiyaman) & Istanbul/Ankara districts AND has scored higher nationwide.

Interested in the upcoming local elections in Turkey?
I wrote a short article for Ankara Policy Center Ankara Politikalar Merkezi on the mayoral race in Istanbul 👇

apm.org.tr/en/2024/03/29/…

Değerli Büyükelçim, sevgili Özgür, çok yakıştığın makamında seni ziyaret etmekten gurur duydum, çok mutlu oldum. Yolun hep açık olsun.

Great discussion on #BlackSea security in the wake of the war in #Ukraine and the role of NATO allies, including #Turkey , and other actors.

Warning issued by #Hungary .

#BrusselsBubble , brace for impact!

#EP elections in June

Hungarian Presidency of the #EU Council of Ministers, July-December 2024

A stark warning on the critical threshold the war in Ukraine is at and hence, Euro-Atlantic security finds itself in.

BREAKING — Iraq designates PKK as a “banned organisation” in a joint statement with Turkey after a security summit in Baghdad

• Ankara aims to conduct a major military operation against PKK in summer in Norhern Iraq

Irak’ın,sadece Türkiye’nin ulusal güvenliğine değil, Irak’ın toprak bütünlüğüne ve bölgede istikrara tehdit oluşturan PKK’yı hakettiği şekilde tanımla yönündeki tarihi kararı, PKK’ya büyük bir darbedir.

Türkiye-Irak ilişkileri karşılıklı güvenle gelişmeye devam edecektir.
🇹🇷 🇮🇶

«Even as the rift between Türkiye & the United States has deepened in the past decade, various geopolitical disruptions acted as a counterforce, reminding both sides of the added value they generate from working in harmony», says Alper Coşkun Carnegie Endowment: bit.ly/CN240212AC