Umud Shokri
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- Sep 28, 2026
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Beyond shared identity: Military cooperation across the Turkic states (opens the original)
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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan attends the informal meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) on the sidelines of the high-level week of the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States on September 25, 2026. [Mustafa Hatipoğlu – Anadolu Agency] Military cooperation among Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan is growing, but it does not yet amount to a unified four-country alliance. The ties are taking shape through d
The Illusion of Redundancy: Why Oil Markets Are Misreading Gulf Supply Risk (opens the original)
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Iran’s medium-sized oil tankers continue to wait off the coast of Bandar Abbas at the Strait of Hormuz in Hormozgan Province, Iran on September 09, 2026. [Fatemeh Bahrami – Anadolu Agency] Oil markets are behaving as if the region’s supply problems will soon resolve themselves. That confidence is becoming increasingly difficult to justify.By mid-September 2026, futures prices had repeatedly eased or paused on the basis of limited diplomatic signals, even as three major vulnerabilities were devel
The Syria option: Rethinking Middle Eastern oil exports beyond Hormuz (opens the original)
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Commercial vessels and oil tankers preparing to transit through the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most critical strategic waterways for global trade flows, maintain their wait in the Gulf of Oman, on June 17, 2026. [Shady Alassar – Anadolu Agency] President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Syria as a possible alternative to the Strait of Hormuz has pushed an old energy-security problem back to the center of Middle Eastern strategy. On September 3, Trump reacted positively to a Washington Post report
Natural gas, corridors, and security: Why Turkey wants Egypt in the Mecca Pact (opens the original)
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (5th L), Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (5th R) pose for a family photo after signing a trilateral joint defense agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on August 7, 2026. [TUR Presidency /Murat Cetinmuhurdar – Anadolu Agency] The Eastern Mediterranean’s importance is often measured by its gas discoveries, but reserves acquire strategic value only when they can reach consumers. Egypt’s Zohr, Israel’s Tamar a
From Manisa to Szeged: BYD’s shifting European investment strategy (opens the original)
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BYD electric vehicle. [Photo by Tiago Ferreira on Unsplash] In June 2026, Chinese electric-vehicle manufacturer BYD confirmed that its planned $1 billion electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle factory in Manisa, western Turkiye, had been placed on indefinite hold. The project, signed with great ceremony in July 2024 in the presence of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, had been presented as a landmark investment. It promised annual production capacity of 150,000 vehicles, up to 5,000 jobs, a r
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