🇷🇺💬 ZAHAROVA ACTING AS A SPOKESPERSON FOR GENOCIDE ALLEGATIONS
This commentary examines the recent remarks of Russia’s MFA Spokesperson Maria Zaharova in defense of genocide allegations, despite Armenia’s own Prime Minister calling for a fact-based reassessment. Authors Tuğçe TECİMER and Selenay Erva YALÇIN detail how Russia has historically leveraged such narratives for regional influence, and question whether this stance risks harming Türkiye–Armenia normalization.
✍️ Tuğçe TECİMER & Selenay Erva YALÇIN
📎 https://shorturl.at/umcmD
#History #Turkey #Armenia #Russia #Diplomacy #Geopolitics #ForeignPolicy

🤝📜 AZERBAIJAN-ARMENIA PEACE TREATY PROCESS AND ATTEMPTS TO UNDERMINE TÜRKİYE-AZERBAIJAN RELATIONS
This commentary by Mehmet Oğuzhan TULUN analyzes the nearing Azerbaijan–Armenia peace treaty and efforts to drive a wedge between Türkiye and Azerbaijan. It details how Ankara and Baku’s relationship is grounded in equality, mutual benefit, and shared strategic goals — making divisive narratives ineffective. The article also highlights Türkiye’s role in ensuring that peace addresses Azerbaijan’s concerns before normalization with Armenia can proceed.
✍️ Mehmet Oğuzhan TULUN
📎 https://shorturl.at/lX3fC
#SouthCaucasus #Turkey #Azerbaijan #Armenia #Diplomacy #RegionalSecurity #ForeignPolicy

⚔️🌍 A SILENT POWER STRUGGLE CENTERED AROUND THE “ARAS 2025” MILITARY EXERCISE
This commentary by İlaha KHANTAMIROVA examines the recent Iran–Azerbaijan military exercises in Karabakh, framed as cooperation but surrounded by parallel diplomatic maneuvers. While Baku strengthens military-technical cooperation with Israel, Tehran affirms support for Armenia’s sovereignty. The piece reveals a careful balancing act — where both sides seek regional stability while hedging against each other’s influence.
✍️ İlaha KHANTAMIROVA
📎 https://shorturl.at/xDNfU
#SouthCaucasus #Turkey #Azerbaijan #Iran #Armenia #RegionalSecurity #Geopolitics #ForeignPolicy

💣🌍 THE POST-WAR LANDMINE ISSUE IN KARABAKH
This commentary by İlaha KHANTAMIROVA explores Azerbaijan’s struggle to clear Karabakh’s minefields after decades of occupation. Despite progress, 89.5% of contaminated land remains. Inaccurate maps from Armenia and the high cost of demining slow the process, threatening lives, delaying reconstruction, and harming the environment. Global cooperation is essential to accelerate clearance and ensure sustainable recovery.
✍️ İlaha KHANTAMIROVA
📎 https://shorturl.at/wKy0X
#Karabakh #Demining #SouthCaucasus #Azerbaijan #Turkey #PostConflictRecovery #RegionalSecurity #SustainableDevelopment

📍🗺 PASHINYAN'S STATEMENTS REGARDING 'WESTERN ARMENIA' AND PUBLIC OPINION REALITIES
This commentary by Tuğçe TECİMER and Selenay Erva YALÇIN explores how the so-called “Republic of Western Armenia” continues to make unfounded territorial claims over regions within Türkiye, citing a defunct treaty and disregarding international law. Despite Pashinyan’s recent delineation of Armenia’s borders, the persistence of such narratives — often supported by certain actors abroad — undermines trust in the peace process with Türkiye and Azerbaijan.
✍️ Tuğçe TECİMER & Selenay Erva YALÇIN
📎 https://shorturl.at/ZCcvP
#Turkey #Armenia #Diplomacy #SouthCaucasus #InternationalLaw #ForeignPolicy #RegionalSecurity

🤝🇹🇷 PASHINYAN'S WORKING VISIT: A STEP FORWARD IN THE TÜRKİYE-ARMENIA NORMALIZATION PROCESS
Tuğçe TECİMER analyzes Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan’s working visit to Türkiye and his meeting with President Erdoğan. The visit underscores mutual determination to advance normalization, with implications for regional peace, economic integration, and connectivity in the South Caucasus. Final success will depend on Armenia concluding a peace treaty with Azerbaijan.
✍️ Tuğçe TECİMER
📎 https://shorturl.at/WDdZR
#Turkey #Armenia #SouthCaucasus #Diplomacy #RegionalSecurity #PeaceProcess #ForeignPolicy

⚖️📜 FROM SYMBOLISM TO SCRUTINY: THE TRANSFORMATION OF FRANCE'S GENOCIDE CLAIMS
In this commentary, Teoman Ertuğrul TULUN analyzes France’s transition from symbolic recognition of the 1915 “Armenian genocide” claims toward a more legalistic and evidence-based approach in current conflicts like Gaza and Ukraine. The analysis highlights parallels with AVİM’s framework, which prioritizes scholarly and juridical processes over politicized declarations, and underscores the importance of verifiable evidence in addressing contested historical narratives.
✍️ Teoman Ertuğrul TULUN
📎 https://shorturl.at/IlKad
#Turkey #France #GenocideStudies #Diplomacy #InternationalLaw #ForeignPolicy #HistoricalNarratives

🇨🇭⚖️ SWITZERLAND'S BIASED STANCE AND ITS HARMFUL EFFECTS ON PEACE EFFORTS
In this commentary, Selenay Erva YALÇIN analyzes how Switzerland’s “Peace Initiative for (Nagorno) Karabakh” contradicts the reality that both Armenia and Azerbaijan have resolved the Karabakh question. The initiative, backed by Diaspora and Christian organizations, echoes past patterns of bias highlighted in the Perinçek v. Switzerland case. With the peace treaty text agreed, such actions risk undermining the progress made toward lasting stability in the South Caucasus.
✍️ Selenay Erva YALÇIN
📎 https://shorturl.at/QiqTz
#SouthCaucasus #Turkey #Azerbaijan #Armenia #Diplomacy #InternationalLaw #PeaceProcess #ForeignPolicy

🇬🇷⚠️ GREECE ATTEMPTS TO FORGE ANOTHER FRONT AGAINST TÜRKİYE WITH A PONTIC NARRATIVE
Teoman Ertuğrul TULUN’s analysis explores the historical context of Pontic Greek claims, referencing Atatürk’s 1927 “Nutuk” and documenting how these narratives evolved into organized lobbying. The commentary argues that unfounded allegations and hate speech from Pontic lobbies damage Greek-Turkish relations and hinder dialogue. It urges a deeper examination of the lobbies’ influence on Greek policy and their role in perpetuating tension, despite official Turkish rejections of the claims.
✍️ Teoman Ertuğrul TULUN
📎 https://shorturl.at/2gLQI
#Turkey #Greece #Pontus #Diplomacy #History #ForeignPolicy #RegionalSecurity

🕌📜 A NEW TENSION EMERGING IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS CONCERNING THE ISSUE OF RELIGIOUS REPRESENTATION
In this commentary, İlaha KHANTAMIROVA analyzes Azerbaijan’s re-establishment of the Erivan Council of Elders under the Caucasus Muslims Office, the Armenian Apostolic Church’s strong rejection, and the ensuing debate over heritage, identity, and historical memory. The dispute has reached international platforms, revealing how religious representation has become another dimension of the Armenia–Azerbaijan rivalry, even as the region works toward stability after the Karabakh conflict.
✍️ İlaha KHANTAMIROVA
📎 https://shorturl.at/NyYeJ
#SouthCaucasus #Turkey #Azerbaijan #Armenia #Diplomacy #ReligiousHeritage #RegionalSecurity #ForeignPolicy

🌐⚖️ ESTABLISHING THE DELICATE BALANCE BETWEEN STRATEGIC AUTONOMY AND STRATEGIC INTERDEPENDENCE: THE CASE OF TÜRKİYE
Teoman Ertuğrul TULUN’s analysis explores Türkiye’s strategic autonomy efforts in an evolving multipolar system. While strengthening defense and policy independence, Türkiye remains engaged with NATO and other alliances. The piece examines how this approach parallels, yet differs from, the EU’s own strategic autonomy concept and why certain circles react with skepticism.
✍️ Teoman Ertuğrul TULUN
📎 https://shorturl.at/75RdR
#Turkey #StrategicAutonomy #ForeignPolicy #NATO #Geopolitics #RegionalSecurity #Multipolarity

🌏🤝 CHINA’S INCREASING INVOLVEMENT IN CENTRAL ASIA: THE SECOND CHINA-CENTRAL ASIA SUMMIT
Seyda Nur OSMANLI analyzes China’s growing role in Central Asia, as shown in the Astana Summit. With $94.8 billion in trade and new investments in railways, energy, and digital projects, Beijing consolidates influence while also pushing cultural and security cooperation. The summit reflects the region’s rising strategic importance as global powers—from the US to the EU—seek closer ties with Central Asian states.
✍️ Seyda Nur OSMANLI
📎 https://shorturl.at/W8SFP

#CentralAsia #China #Turkey #Geopolitics #BRI #RegionalSecurity #ForeignPolicy #InternationalRelations

Greece’s closure of Turkish minority schools in Western Thrace continues a troubling historical trend. It challenges Lausanne Treaty protections and risks deeper social fractures.

📖 GREEK POLICIES TOWARDS TURKISH MINORITY SCHOOLS RISK REPEATING HISTORY
✍️ Teoman Ertuğrul TULUN
🔗 https://shorturl.at/8mY2A

#Turkey #Greece #MinorityRights #Education #LausanneTreaty 📚

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📊 LNG markets are changing!
Türkiye stands to gain from lower prices, but its strategic goal is to become an energy hub through pipelines and long-term cooperation with Europe.

📌 IS THE RISE IN GLOBAL LNG SUPPLY AN OPPORTUNITY FOR TÜRKİYE?
🔗 https://shorturl.at/eHzCv

✍️ Bekir Caner Şafak

#Energy #LNG #Türkiye #EnergyHub #Europe #Geopolitics #EnergySecurity

⚖️ Black Sea at a Crossroads
Renewed rivalries and new actors test its legal framework. Türkiye’s stewardship of the Montreux Convention remains crucial for equilibrium and security.

📌 GUARDIANSHIP OR EQUILIBRIUM? POWER, AND THE LEGACY OF ORDER IN THE BLACK SEA
🔗 https://shorturl.at/Q6F1k

✍️ Dr. Teoman Ertuğrul Tulun

#BlackSea #MontreuxConvention #Türkiye #Security #Geopolitics #RegionalOrder

🏛 Politicization of the Fener Greek Patriarchate
The Patriarchate’s ecumenical claims and political maneuvers create tension with Türkiye’s sovereignty, influencing both domestic policy and foreign relations.

📌 THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF THE POLITICIZATION OF THE FENER GREEK PATRIARCHATE
🔗 https://shorturl.at/o86x3

✍️ Mehmet Oğuzhan Tulun

#Türkiye #Fener #Law #Geopolitics #Religion #Sovereignty

🌍 Constructive Eurasianism at a Critical Moment
AVİM’s analysis reminds us that Türkiye’s future lies in balancing its ties — keeping Western alliances strong while exploring Eastern partnerships for stability and security.

📌 CONSTRUCTIVE EURASIANISM AND PAST REFLECTIONS
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/3vb875xa

✍️ Dr. Teoman Ertuğrul Tulun

#Eurasia #Türkiye #Geopolitics #Balance #Strategy #Security #ThinkTank

📢 The Musa Dagh story is often presented as a simple tale of “heroic self-defense,” echoed recently by the French Ambassador in Yerevan. Yet archival material cited in AVİM’s work and in Kemal Çiçek’s study shows extensive pre-1915 cooperation between local Armenian groups and Entente powers (France, Britain, Russia), including intelligence sharing, support for Allied naval activity on the Ottoman coast, and expectations of an Allied landing. This historical context – which predates the 1915 Relocation and Resettlement Law – suggests a far more complex picture than popularized fiction allows, and invites a more balanced reading of World War I events in the region, including Ottoman security concerns. 📖 A NEVER-ENDING FICTIONAL NARRATIVE: ARMENIANS OF MUSA DAGH 🔗 https://shorturl.at/q4gLo
✍️ AVİM #History #Türkiye #MusaDagh #WWI #Cilicia #OttomanEmpire #Geopolitics #NarrativeConflict

Recent accusations against Mustafa Kemal Atatürk at Princeton University rely on a quote taken entirely out of context. AVİM’s analysis clarifies that Atatürk was quoting another speaker referring to the Armenian-French occupation of Adana in 1918–1922, not making discriminatory remarks. The commentary also outlines Atatürk’s record: establishing equality before law, opposing fascist regimes, supporting collective security, and rejecting appeasement.
📖 A DECEITFUL ATTEMPT TO TARNISH ATATÜRK’S LEGACY AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
🔗 https://shorturl.at/RRqIn
✍️ AVİM
#Ataturk #Türkiye #Princeton #History #AcademicEthics #Diplomacy #Leadership #TruthMatters

The Black Sea remains a critical space where stability and competition meet. AVİM’s commentary presents the Constructive Eurasianism approach, emphasizing Türkiye’s balanced role between Europe and Asia, its commitment to cooperative security, and the continued importance of the Montreux Convention as a safeguard against militarization. The analysis calls for renewed engagement through BSEC and similar platforms, prioritizing dialogue, environmental sustainability, and resistance to hybrid threats. Cooperative security, once deemed idealistic, is now a strategic necessity for Eurasia’s future.
📖 CONSTRUCTIVE EURASIANISM AND COOPERATIVE SECURITY: AVİM’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE BLACK SEA REGION
🔗 https://shorturl.at/Va1Xb
✍️ Teoman Ertuğrul Tulun
#BlackSea #Türkiye #Eurasia #Security #MontreuxConvention #RegionalCooperation #Diplomacy #ConstructiveEurasianism

Türkiye and Armenia’s sixth round of normalization talks in Yerevan shows sustained diplomatic engagement and mutual willingness for progress. Both sides reaffirmed commitments on border crossings, infrastructure rehabilitation, and increased air connectivity. Holding the talks in Yerevan after Ankara symbolizes balanced diplomacy and equality between the parties. Small-scale protests from radical groups contrasted with the broader public’s acceptance—an encouraging sign for lasting peace and cooperation in the South Caucasus.
📖 A NEW STAGE IN THE TÜRKİYE–ARMENIA NORMALIZATION PROCESS: THE YEREVAN MEETING
🔗 https://shorturl.at/Tem41
✍️ Tuğçe Tecimer
#Türkiye #Armenia #Diplomacy #Peace #Normalization #RegionalStability #SouthCaucasus