Sports Diplomacy from Trabzon to Cairo: The Mohamed Salah Transfer and Türkiye-Egypt Relations
Salah’s recent signing with Trabzonspor following his departure from Liverpool drew widespread coverage in domestic and international media.
A Nuclear Countdown in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Geopolitics of Akkuyu and El Dabaa
Two projects are rising on opposite shores of the Mediterranean, preparing to introduce a new dimension to the region's security…
Baghdad’s Search for an Oil Outlet: The Iraq-Türkiye Pipeline Deadlock, the Kirkuk-Baniyas Card, and the Development Road
In a Middle Eastern geography, predicting the exact points through which energy corridors drawn on paper will actually pass remains,…
NATO, The Rearmament Drive and the Critical Minerals Impasse
NATO's aggressive rearmament drive is hitting a structural wall. That wall is the critical raw materials bottleneck, meticulously managed by…
The 2026 World Cup and the Demographic Legacy of the Colonial Map
Colonialism may have ended, but mechanisms of economic, cultural, and institutional dependency have simply morphed, reproducing themselves through football.
Power Struggles in the Middle East and Ankara’s Corridor Strategy
In the Middle East, it has always been easiest to draw a new route on colorful maps; the hardest part…
The Great Mineral Realignment: The G7’s Supply Chain Alliance and Turkey’s Strategic Crossroads
Global free trade is no longer inherently free. Nations must play their hands according to the stark realities of this…
Winds of Protectionism in the Shadow of Critical Minerals
The picture presented by global developments is clear: In the coming period, minerals will rank among the primary elements of…
The new direction of the US under Trump: From climate leadership to fossil fuel dominance
At a rally in Virginia last June, he mocked climate change: “Global warming is fine. In fact, I heard it…