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 ...
Erdogan’s deteriorating health triggers power struggle among family and loyalists in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's increasingly frequent verbal slips, apparent moments of confusion, memory lapses, angry outbursts and ...
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 Erdogan builds global arms network through nearly 100 defense agreements
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose family members and close associates have consolidated near-total control over Turkey’s military-industrial ...
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 ...
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