Turkey Signals 2026 Offshore Energy Deal With Syria, Seismic Surveys Possible newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/29/t...

Turkey, Armenia to Offer Free E-Visas for Official Passport Holders From Jan. 1 newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/29/t...

1- This is one of the countless outcomes of Erdoğan’s purge of the Gülen movement: it wasn’t only the Turkish state that began to collapse—society itself has been sliding into moral and ethical decay. The TFF’s latest betting scandal, with 353 referees and 75 observers referred for discipline,...👇

Erdoğan crushed the Gülen movement—the most influential Hanafi–Sufi current in modern Turkey and a core pillar of Turkish soft and smart power at home and abroad—functioning, in effect, as Israel’s proxy. As a result, the landscape has been fundamentally altered.👇

Bahçeli Calls Daesh a “Zionist-Imperialist Stooge” After Yalova Raid Kills Three Officers newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/29/b...

3-"In one of the most striking details in Erdem’s account, he said that French counterparts wrote back with a blunt remark—“We told you it was theatre”—a line frequently cited by critics as evidence that European officials privately doubted Ankara’s story even as formal diplomacy remained cautious."

CHP’s Europe Complaint Collides With Its Own Post-Coup Diplomacy for Erdoğan 👇 newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/29/c...

CHP’s Europe Complaint Collides With Its Own Post-Coup Diplomacy for Erdoğan newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/29/c...

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Gaza Solidarity or Succession Theater? Bilal Erdoğan’s Jan. 1 Stage Widens newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/23/g...

1- That is why Bilal Erdoğan has a stronger chance of succeeding his father—not because of intelligence, charisma, or competence, but because of the Israel factor: ‘Erdottoman’ rhetoric has become Israel’s most convenient cover to expand territory on the ground while milking the U.S. financially,👇

It is almost tragicomic to watch academics who present themselves as political scientists or journalists discuss an ‘increasing rivalry’ between Erdoğan’s Turkey and Israel.👇

Propagandists are pushing this narrative hard to shape public opinion, even though we had already flagged Israel’s post-Assad strategy last December, long before it became a talking point.👇

Vučić Accuses Turkey of Arming Kosovo, Contrasting Sharply With His Past Praise of Erdoğan newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/28/v...

Turkey Showcases Swarm-Capable UCAVs While Recent Drone Breaches Expose Airspace Gaps newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/28/t...

Government Dismisses “Two-Hour Delay” Claim—Without Publishing Radar Tracks or Timestamps newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/28/g...

"...The reference, drawn from a poem - On the Pulpit of Süleymaniye (the Blue Mosque) - by national poet Mehmet Akif Ersoy, likened Erdoğan to Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent — a symbol of supreme authority and imperial power..." 👇 newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/28/s...

“Süleyman Of Our Time”: Bahçeli’s Praise Raises Fresh Questions About Dynastic Succession newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/28/s...

"Many observers have framed Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as the latest front in a growing rivalry between Turkey and Israel, interpreting the move as a deliberate challenge to Ankara’s influence in the Horn of Africa, where Turkey has deep political, military, and economic ties to Somalia."👇

Gaza, Not Ankara: The Real Motive Behind Israel’s Somaliland Recognition geopolist.com/gaza-not-ank...

Turkey, Russia Deepen Akkuyu Financing as Ankara Pursues Additional Nuclear Partnerships newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/27/t...

Turkey Receives First 10 KAAN Engines, Awaits U.S. Licenses for 80 More newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/27/t...

"...If the pilot purge clipped Turkey’s wings, the decision to import Russia’s S-400 air defense system broke them entirely..." 👇 geopolist.com/erdogans-sel...

1-"...In that sense, the PKK is already drifting toward de facto history—if not already obsolete— as a strategic military actor against the Turkish state. The process—if it continues—will only accelerate that trajectory, turning the PKK’s armed campaign into a closed chapter and leaving...👇

2- ...politics, law, and identity questions to dominate the agenda..."

"...The move raised concerns that compelling reluctant pilots back into cockpits would further undermine morale and unit cohesion. Indeed, by shuttering its Air Force Academy and ejecting an entire generation of cadets in 2016, Erdoğan also disrupted the long-term pilot training pipeline..."👇

"...The uncomfortable truth is that the PKK’s coercive rhetoric increasingly exceeds its operational capability inside TR. That gap matters because it distorts policy debate in Ankara, misleads outside audiences, and—most consequentially—undercuts Kurdish interests beyond TR, particularly in Syria."

Rhetoric vs. Capability: Reassessing the PKK and the SDF in Today’s Turkey-Syria Equation newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/27/r...

"Erdoğan’s response to the staged July 2016 coup attempt devastated the Turkish Air Force from within. In the coup’s aftermath, hundreds of fighter pilots were summarily purged, stripping the service of years of hard-earned experience. Over 300 F-16 pilots –more than half the fighter pilot cadre–

Erdoğan’s Self-Inflicted Airpower Wounds: How Turkey Lost the Skies geopolist.com/erdogans-sel...

Russian diplomat hints at “provocation” after drones breach Turkish airspace newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/25/r...

Bahçeli’s “timing” remark fuels sabotage talk as Turkey probes Libya jet disaster newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/25/b...

A Drone Reaches Ankara’s Corridor—and Turkey Wants Answers 👇 newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/17/a...

Libya army chief of staff killed as jet crashes after departing Ankara 👇 newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/24/l...

Libya army chief of staff killed as jet crashes after departing Ankara newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/24/l...

Ceasefire ordered after Aleppo clashes as Turkey presses SDF to merge with Syrian army, cites alleged Israel coordination newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/23/c...

Ankara accuses Netanyahu of hypocrisy as trilateral Jerusalem summit deepens eastern Mediterranean coordination newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/23/a...

1-"...In Turkey, football is not merely sport—it is a mass social identity, a vast network of associations, and a highly visible channel for political signaling...While organizers and participating...👇

2-...institutions presented the turnout as a broad civic mobilization, the presence of top club presidents—figures with massive public reach far beyond formal politics—has fueled criticism that the event is also serving as a soft-power stage for Bilal Erdoğan’s domestic branding..."

Gaza Solidarity or Succession Theater? Bilal Erdoğan’s Jan. 1 Stage Widens newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/23/g...

1- "...Any perception that an alternative succession is being promoted by Moscow or its fellow travellers in Turkey’s deep state would deeply unsettle Erdoğan. Recent events in the region have only underscored this precarious balance. newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/16/e...

Turkey’s S-400 Exit Ramp: The Deal Ankara Wants, and Moscow May Not newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/17/t...

A Drone Has Arrived in Ankara's Corridor—And Turkey Seeks Clarification. newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/17/a....

Another Turkish self-styled 'journalist' (Sabahattin Önkibar) who appears to lift our material and then repackages it as the centerpiece of his commentary. 👇 Columnist Claims U.S. ‘Approved’ Dynasty for Türkiye, Citing Barrack’s Remarks www.paturkey.com/news/2025/co...

By weaponizing education, media, and the courts, Erdoğan has sought to indoctrinate Turkish youth against the Hizmet movement and its leader—Turkey’s most successful soft/smart-power project in the world and in the country.

6- Fidan’s central role in Erdoğan’s dirty work—both domestically and abroad—particularly his involvement and role in the staged 2016 coup attempt, has rendered him too valuable, and too powerful, to be abruptly sidelined. It is therefore unsurprising that Erdoğan himself once described Fidan...👇

3-"...The roots of today’s suspicions surrounding Hakan Fidan can be traced back to the Selam–Tevhid investigation, a sprawling counterintelligence case in the early 2010s centered on alleged Iranian networks operating in Turkey...👇

1- "...Having cowed the formal opposition, Erdoğan is now turning his purge inwards, toward “inner threats” within his own party and state apparatus that might disrupt a Bilal Erdoğan succession. Complicating this already fraught picture is the geopolitical... 👇 newsaboutturkey.com/2025/12/16/e...