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As the roundtable sessions shifted into open dialogue, hands shot up around the atrium. The topic: The panel included Prof. Elżbieta Stasiak, Minister Marta Nowak, and Dr. Rafal Mazur. The moderator scanned the room and pointed to a young man in a grey sweater and geans, on his sweater was the...

It began with a handful of students waving red flags in a cold, cobblestone square nearly 2,000 kilometers from home. Then came the chants, soft at first, then defiantly clear: “The people want the fall of the regime!” What might have once sounded like the slogan of another era was, on this...

"The revolution we have birthed was not a gift granted by foreign hands, nor a fortunate accident of history. It was seized, deliberately, mercilessly, and without apology, by the will of the Turkish people. Power, once wrested from the dying hands of the old order, is not self-sustaining; it...

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The breeze carried the scent of stone, iron, and jasmine from the manicured courtyard below as Surakiart was led through the thick double doors of the Turkish Government Complex. The marble floor under his polished shoes gleamed with the sterility of power. Ottoman arches hung overhead, yet the...

Dışişleri Bakanlığı Ministry of Foreign Affairs AUTHENTIC COMMUNIQUE OF THE OFFICE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Security Clearance: Secure and Encrypted ŞİFRELEME KORUMASI: KAPLUĞA [Recipient]: Zero Jabour, Chief of International Affairs < Kelly the Mad > [Sender]: Minister of Foreign Affairs...

Down below, in the recessed courtyard, two unmarked Mercedes sedans idled under the muted hum of sodium lights. The drivers, both warrant officers, did not meet each other’s gaze. Brigadier Levent Bozkurt stepped from the rear seat of the second vehicle, his boots crunching softly on the...

It’s easy to romanticize generals. Especially in moments of national crisis, when the institutions of liberal democracy appear fragile, corrupted, or outmatched by rising strongmen, the military offers a seductive fantasy. That of order, secularism, even salvation. But for those of us with an...

There’s a tendency, especially in the Western imagination, to see authoritarianism as something swift and cinematic. A military coup. A leader in exile. Tanks in the streets. But in Türkiye, we are seeing something slower, more methodical, and far more insidious. The second wave of purges inside...

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Dışişleri Bakanlığı Ministry of Foreign Affairs AUTHENTIC COMMUNIQUE OF THE OFFICE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Security Clearance: Secure and Encrypted ŞİFRELEME KORUMASI: KAPLUĞA [Recipient]: Dimitrios Kallistratos, Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic < Exultris > [Sender]: Aysa Aslan...

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Not long ago, the Turkish Workers Party, a marginal force, ideologically communist and politically fringe, was dismissed as a relic of Cold War nostalgia. Today, it governs Türkiye. What happened earlier this year was not a coup in the traditional sense, though many are calling it one. It was a...