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Five Turkish defense firms enter SIPRI Top 100 with record $10.1 billion in 2024 sales Five Turkish defense companies generated a combined $10.1 billion in arms revenues in 2024, an 11 percent increase from the previous year, according to a report released Monday by the Stockholm Intern...

Five Turkish defense firms enter SIPRI Top 100 with record $10.1 billion in 2024 sales geopolist.com/five-turkish...

Turkey’s Kızılelma drone fires radar-guided missile in beyond-visual-range test Turkey’s jet-powered combat drone Bayraktar Kızılelma has struck a jet-powered aerial target with a radar-guided, beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile during a test over the Black Sea, in what its m...

Turkey’s Kızılelma drone successfully discharged a radar-guided missile during an advanced beyond-visual-range test.

Ankara Offers to Discuss Aegean Waters as Greece Blocks Turkish Role in EU Arms Scheme Turkey has signalled it is ready to reopen one of its most sensitive disputes with Greece – the breadth of territorial waters in the Aegean – as it pushes for greater access for its defence industry t...

Ankara Offers to Discuss Aegean Waters as Greece Blocks Turkish Role in EU Arms Scheme newsaboutturkey.com/2025/11/25/a...

Turkey’s Textbook Shift Signals Bolder Pan-Turkic Ambitions Turkey’s education ministry has formally decided to replace the term “Central Asia” with “Turkistan” in the national school curriculum, in a move Ankara says is meant to reinforce unity across the “Tu...

Turkey’s Textbook Shift Signals Bolder Pan-Turkic Ambitions
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Turkey Says Black Box Analysis of Deadly C-130 Crash Will Take at Least Two Months
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Message to Ankara.

TUAF543: Accident at FL240—or a Message to Ankara? Video footage captured by onlookers appears to show the Turkish Air Force C-130E spiraling downward from the sky in multiple pieces, leaving a trail of white vapor or smoke in its wake. The hulking fo...

b-...quickly to normalize ties with Washington and Ankara; on November 10, 2025 he became the first Syrian leader to be received at the White House,..."
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a- "...the Syrian theater has flipped since the regime’s collapse on December 8, 2024, when an opposition offensive—with political cover from Ankara and Western partners—pushed Bashar al-Assad from power. Ahmed al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammad al-Julani), now leading the transitional government, has moved...

"...One immediately recalls the mysterious plane crash that killed Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in August 2023 – a crash U.S. intelligence believes was caused by an intentional explosion on board, quite likely an assassination ordered from the highest levels in Moscow..." 👇

TUAF543: Accident at FL240—or a Message to Ankara? Video footage captured by onlookers appears to show the Turkish Air Force C-130E spiraling downward from the sky in multiple pieces, leaving a trail of white vapor or smoke in its wake. The hulking fo...

TUAF543: Accident at FL240—or a Message to Ankara? geopolist.com/tuaf543-acci...

Free the Future: Why Turkey Should Prioritize Demirtaş Over Öcalan
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"...The result is a document that reads like both manifesto and command briefing. Its tone is not consultative. Even when Öcalan gestures to pluralism—praising the women’s movement’s discipline after Songül Çelik asks about duties—he speaks from a lectern, issues assignments, and reserves the ...

On the Brink of “Dissolution”: Öcalan’s Alleged Teleconference Unpacked A set of leaked minutes, said to transcribe a teleconference held on 2 May 2025 between imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and senior figures from the movement, portrays the most far-reaching rheto...

...right to settle accounts with those he deems obstructive, whether in Qandil or in Iraqi Kurdistan..."
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On the Brink of “Dissolution”: Öcalan’s Alleged Teleconference Unpacked A set of leaked minutes, said to transcribe a teleconference held on 2 May 2025 between imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and senior figures from the movement, portrays the most far-reaching rheto...

On the Brink of “Dissolution”: Öcalan’s Alleged Teleconference Unpacked newsaboutturkey.com/2025/11/11/o...

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#Vučić (Oct. 2024):👇
- #Turkey [is] the greatest power in the Balkans… #Erdogan understands the problems..
- Parts of Serbia survive thanks to #Turkish investments.
- Welcome to #Serbia, dear friend.
- Friends like #Erdoğan are rare… Whatever happens, he calls me::::))))

Weren’t #Erdogan and #Vučić just calling each other “friends” and trading birthday wishes?
Amazing how fast “strategic friendship” turns into “Ottoman dreams” overnight:;)))👇

Erdoğan Can’t Cancel the CHP—He Needs It

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1- In his social media post, Özel said: “The journey that began in 1973 has been full of obstacles and difficulties, but we have full confidence in Turkish engineers and workers in reaching the critical goal. Our KAAN draws its strength not from abroad, but from our nation...👇

2-...In the photo, our national pride KAAN is behind us; and we, for our part, will stand behind KAAN to the very end.”

From day one as CHP leader, Özel has played validator-in-chief—turning crises into photo-ops. The regime’s real currency is legitimacy; he keeps minting it for free.👇

Özel calls the litigation track “risky” because it could further “weaken the rule of law“,his assurance that “not all judges are under Erdoğan’s control” serves as a legitimacy voucher, used whenever the government needs to claim the courts are independent enough
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On the Eve of White House Talks, #Turkey Sends AWACS to Lithuania as #Trump Hints at Fast-Track Sanctions Relief
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"...As we have cautioned, this “managed transition” model dangerously concentrates power. In effect, Turkey is being—if it hasn’t already been—steered away from competitive autocracy toward a dynastic autocracy..."
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After Trump’s comment below, what’s the competitive-authoritarianism chorus in academia saying about Turkey—anything new?::)))👇

After Strasbourg says ‘free him,’ Bahçeli echoes: Demirtaş’s release would benefit Turkey
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Ankara court tosses bid to oust CHP leader Özgür Özel, calling case ‘moot’
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The DEM Party’s İmralı team rejected only the fake line Ergan put in Öcalan’s mouth, but they carefully avoided denying whether Öcalan actually blocked Demirtaş’s release.👇

The thief Ergan built his article on our analysis and then propped it up with an Öcalan👇 quote that he made up - explicitly rejected by the İmrali team of the DEM party:
“Demirtaş’s active involvement would not yield good results—for me, for the government, or for the continuation of the process.”

Allegation: Öcalan prevented Demirtaş’s release — first response from the DEM Party.
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