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When Prime Minister Ayşe Çiller steps off her plane in Diyarbakır this week, she will walk into a city burdened by contradictions. It is the capital of Türkiye’s southeast provinces, a place of deep cultural pride and political grievance, where the scars of conflict remain visible in shuttered...

Dışişleri Bakanlığı Ministry of Foreign Affairs AUTHENTIC COMMUNIQUE OF THE OFFICE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Security Clearance: Secure and Encrypted ŞİFRELEME KORUMASI: KAPLUĞA [Recipient]: John Coates, International Olympic Committee < Owen > [Sender]: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Türkiye...

Dışişleri Bakanlığı Ministry of Foreign Affairs AUTHENTIC COMMUNIQUE OF THE OFFICE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Security Clearance: Secure and Encrypted ŞİFRELEME KORUMASI: KAPLUĞA [Recipient]: John Coates, International Olympic Committee < Owen > [Sender]: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Türkiye...

Dışişleri Bakanlığı Ministry of Foreign Affairs AUTHENTIC COMMUNIQUE OF THE OFFICE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Security Clearance: Secure and Encrypted ŞİFRELEME KORUMASI: KAPLUĞA [Recipient]: Emma Ryan Secretary of State < Jamie > [Sender]: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Türkiye <...

The windowless chamber inside the Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı complex smelled of old coffee and smoke as a heavy projector beam cut through cigarette smoke, throwing the grainy still-frame of a captured hard drive across the wall. Colonel Çolak, an army intelligence officer, sat stiff-backed...

The fluorescent lights in the operations room buzzed faintly above the circle of men and women seated around the long metal table. The walls were lined with intel boards. Maps of Poland, Türkiye, Syria, and Iraq were dotted with red pins, names taped beneath satellite photos, and a timeline...

The house sat in the shadows of the distant foothills, a decaying structure that had long been abandoned by its original owners. Inside, the faint rustling of the wind outside seemed a whisper to the men of the 3rd Commando Brigade as they crept through the darkness. Alptug Gunduz led the team...

For weeks, the streets of southeastern Türkiye have echoed with chants, tear gas, and the crackle of rubber bullets. The protests, led largely by young Kurds, have grown more defiant by the day, underscoring a grim reality: while Prime Minister Ayşe Çiller’s government has been consumed with...

The rain had not stopped since morning, as a gray curtain draped across the city of Ankara. The streets glistened with water, the lamps along the boulevards bending their light in soft reflections across the cobblestones. As Lord Ali Dārayavauš disembarked from his government’s ATR-72 aircraft...

Prime Minister Ayşe Çiller has achieved in a matter of months what few Turkish leaders have managed in decades: she has coaxed the economy back from collapse. Foreign direct investment is flowing again, GDP has risen from $4 billion to nearly $7 billion, and Ankara’s corridors of power hum with...

"Evrim read over the document before handing it to Deputy Director Köseoğlu, who took a few moments to read it as Evrim listened to Ivon speak about the trade proposals. Evrim addressed the trade aspect first. "We aren't opposed to a flat tariff of 10% but if possible, we'd like to negotiate a...

Evrim nodded thoughtfully. “I’m very pleased to hear that our agencies’ collaboration has been effective. Türkiye has always valued working closely with Spain on matters of security, and I can assure you that our intelligence services remain committed to supporting your efforts wherever needed.”...

Dışişleri Bakanlığı Ministry of Foreign Affairs AUTHENTIC COMMUNIQUE OF THE OFFICE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Security Clearance: Secure and Encrypted ŞİFRELEME KORUMASI: KAPLUĞA [Recipient]: National Directorate of the Border Police <DNPAF@interieur.gouv.fr> Dutchy [Sender]: Turkish...

The Grand National Assembly was restless. It was a Wednesday, and the rows of Parliament had filled early. Already, the backbenchers from both wings of the aisle were becoming restless. The economic crisis, slow-moving but pervasive, loomed over every conversation in Parliament, gripping with...

Sümeyye and her delegation followed their Polish hosts to the meeting room where they sat opposite their Polish counterparts, on the Turkish side of the table, where officials from the Turkish Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Trade, National Defense, the National Intelligence Organization, and the...

Executive Summary Between the most recent observation period and the prior cycle, the global economy has exhibited both robust real expansion and moderate price pressures. The world’s aggregate real output expanded by nearly 9%, while the supply of U.S. dollars in circulation increased by...

Between March and April 2007, the global economy has entered a global recession that has created conditions likely pointing to a depression. Virtually all major economies are reporting double-digit contractions in real GDP, in some cases exceeding 60%. The global downturn is broad-based...

Ayşe listened to Hawkin's proposal and nodded. "I do think the proposal is definitely doable," Ayşe said, trying not to make a binding commitment without consulting the rest of her government, despite finding the arrangement acceptable from her side. "We plan to also phase out anywhere between...