It is understood that the meeting on June 29 between MİT President İbrahim Kalın and Hamas Shura Council President Muhammed Ismail Darwish, as announced by Turkish security sources, was conducted under four main topics: 1- The humanitarian tragedy in Gaza, 2- Turkish efforts with the international community to end Gaza’s humanitarian crisis and destruction, ensuring
Iranian women have been standing tall for years, not just against the regime, but also against war, silence, and a male-dominated system. In June 2025, as the Middle East once again teeters on the edge of open war, Iranian women and their fight are being tested by history in one of its toughest moments. As
In the theater of Middle East geopolitics, a U.S. strike is rarely just a regional act — it’s a signal to markets, rivals, and allies alike that the temperature just went up. But let’s be clear: this wasn’t a bold initiative from Donald Trump. It was, somewhat predictably, the next act in a script sketched
Turkish National Defense Minister Yaşar Güler said on June 18 that, “Due to recent events in Iran, security measures at our borders have been heightened.” Güler made this statement after conducting inspections and reviews along the Turkish-Iranian border in Van province, accompanied by the Chief of General Staff, General Metin Gürak, and senior commanders. In
At times, history compresses into weeks, and some rare nights carry the burden of decades. June 13 might just have been one of those nights. That’s when Israel struck Iran in a bold, chilling, and calculated move. Missiles flew, tensions spiked, and the post-post-Cold War order shuddered. But beneath the noise, five brutal and illuminating
Israeli warplanes launched a major airstrike on Iran in the early hours of June 13. The attack targeted military and nuclear facilities, killing Iran’s Chief of General Staff Mohammad Bagheri, Revolutionary Guards Commander Hossein Salami, and 6 scientists involved in Iran’s nuclear program. The Natanz nuclear reactor was also hit. Reports claim Airospace Forces Commander
Russian and Ukrainian delegations met in İstanbul on May 16 for possible peace talks. These are the third round of negotiations between the two countries, since the Russian war on Ukraine started in 2022; the previous two were also held in Türkiye with the mediation of the Turkish government. This time, a high-ranking US delegation
Six hitmen working for Israel who had been put to sleep in different European countries, were woken up two days earlier and sent to Tunisia. The day before, two ships of the Israeli navy, one of them a submarine, and a helicopter carrier disguised as a civilian freighter had been stationed off the coast of
I have been watching to see who would name it correctly. Finally, it was Tuncer Bakırhan, the Co-Chairman of the Kurdish-problem-focused Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM). The following sentence in Bakırhan’s address to the DEM Parliamentary Group on April 8 seemed like a routine proposal to the government. Still, it contained the actual name