The Engine Room · Partnerships
Partnerships : Türkiye's strategic and economic projection through bilateral relationships
Bilateral treaties, mediation roles, defense and training arrangements, trade corridors, and the legal instruments that shape Türkiye's outward reach. The desk reads the documents underneath the diplomacy.
How the 1974 Cyprus operation brought down the Greek junta
The Cyprus Peace Operation that Athens calls an invasion is the same event that collapsed the Greek dictatorship three days later and reopened Greek democracy. The chain from the colonels' coup to Karamanlis's return, on the record the US State Department itself set down.
The coup, the guarantee, and the 1974 Cyprus Peace Operation
Fifty-two years after Turkish troops came ashore near Kyrenia, the treaty behind the operation and the guarantee that still holds. The 1960 Treaty of Guarantee, Council of Europe Resolution 573, and the line that runs from the junta's coup to Peace and Freedom Day.
The alliance that argues: Türkiye and the United States since 1830
A Turkish frigate at America's 250th is the latest chapter in a partnership that began with an 1830 treaty and has quarreled its way through the Johnson letter, the Cyprus embargo, the YPG, and the S-400 without breaking. The full arc, and why the argument is how the alliance has always worked.
The 1932 treaty Türkiye and Iran never quite forgot
An eight-article bilateral instrument signed in Ankara in October 1932, ratified by the Grand National Assembly in June 1935, and barely cited since, has resurfaced in the spring of 2026. A close reading of the document, its parliamentary record, and its institutional life.
What Türkiye's Somalia partnership actually delivers
Training, port and naval-facility cooperation, and the long view from Mogadishu. Numbers behind the partnership and the institutional carriers on the Turkish side.