More fans, more friction: Online fights risk Korea’s soft power
Last week, while scrolling through X, I came across a striking exchange between Turkish and South Korean users I had never heard of. Insults, national stereotypes and personal atta...
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Can Mecca Pact deepen its role in Gulf’s security structure?
The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, signed by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan, is formally framed as an open-architecture agreement. However, that openness has yet to translate...
Türkiye’s next strategic frontier: Technology
The international order is undergoing its deepest transformation since the end of the Cold War. The old system has not disappeared, yet the new one has not fully emerged. We are li...
US steps up sanctions pressure on Iran
The tensions between Iran and the United States continue, with officials from both countries exchanging threats. So far, U.S. military operations against Iran have failed to force...
Troy imperative: Card isn’t the point but control is
When a payment between a Turkish consumer and a Turkish merchant is routed through a foreign card scheme, the purchase price itself does not leave the country. Most of the merchant...
What AK Party's vision for next 25 years means for Türkiye
The Justice and Development Party (AK Party), which has shaped Türkiye’s recent political history over the past 25 years, has released its “AK Party 25th Year Vision” document to t...
Binfaces' chivalric fight with 'the establishment'
After resigning as a member of parliament amid scrutiny over an undeclared gift of 5 million pounds from cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne, Reform U.K. leader Nigel F...
World Humanitarian Day: Who protects those who protect others?
There is something fundamentally paradoxical about the contemporary humanitarian world: never have the needs been so great, and yet never have those trying to meet them been so vul...
Are central banks all hitting the brakes at once?
Reading the direction of global monetary policy has become more difficult than ever. The U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) is trying to maintain a delicate balance between inflation and e...
Cost of Meta glasses: Who consented to being recorded?
Artificial intelligence is becoming an inseparable part of daily life, quietly shaping how we see, judge and remember the world around us. Yet one layer has always been assumed to...