Turkey’s Somalia spaceport linked to military ambitions and long-range missile development
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey is developing a sprawling rocket launch facility on Somalia's Indian Ocean coast that is publicly presented as ...
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Erdogan’s family business ties complicate Azerbaijan dispute
Levent Kenez/Stockholm A dispute over Islamic headscarves in Azerbaijani schools has cost Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a senior adviser ...
Turkey reshapes nuclear policy as Erdogan’s son-in-law enters new business
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey is rewriting the rules of its nuclear industry as it moves to move away from a model ...
Document shows 78 of Turkey’s top 100 taxpayers withheld their names from the public record
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey's Revenue Administration (GİB) released its annual list of top income taxpayers this week, with the most striking ...
Erdogan’s drone mogul son-in-law aims to be the first to prove autonomous jets in a war: ‘We’ll demonstrate it to the world’
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Selçuk Bayraktar, chairman of Turkish drone manufacturer Baykar and son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said autonomous jet-powered ...
Turkey expands drone footprint in Central Asia with joint production deal
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey is expanding its defense footprint in Central Asia through a strategy that combines drone exports with industrial ...
Erdogan uses jihadist figures and Ottoman symbolism to fuel militarist propaganda
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey’s SAHA 2026 defense exhibition turned into a political and ideological showcase last week as President Recep Tayyip ...
Turkey’s military spending tops all neighbors combined as economic pressures test sustainability
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey’s military expenditure reached $30 billion in 2025, exceeding the combined defense spending of its immediate neighbors and ...
Sharp rise in drone wealth moves Erdogan family-linked defense contractor into world’s richest ranks
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Selçuk Bayraktar, chairman of Turkish drone manufacturer Baykar and son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has entered the ...
Erdogan’s defense contractor walks free as US abruptly drops NATO corruption case
Abdullah Bozkurt / Stockholm A US-indicted Turkish defense contractor and former military officer, whose rapid rise in Turkey’s arms industry ...
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