The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence into the operational frameworks of non-state actors represents a paradigm shift in asymmetric warfare. Currently, standard counter-terrorism constructions often rely on the static matching of keywords and legacy Natural Language Processing (NLP) models, which are inadequate for detecting digitally fragmented, hyper-localised extremist propaganda.
The article examines the conditions under which Turkey can move beyond its role as a natural gas transit country and become a significant regional energy hub. It focuses on how domestic market development, infrastructure constraints, contract renewals, and geopolitical uncertainty shape Turkey’s position in international energy politics.
The tension between normative values and strategic interests has always been an interesting feature of international relations. Yet in recent years, this tension has become visible, shaped by great power competition, energy transitions, and the accelerating race for technological dominance. Against this backdrop, the recent normalization of relations between India and Canada offers a compelling case of how pragmatism is increasingly prevailing over principle in global diplomacy.
Overview
Türkiye occupies a strategic position at the crossroads of major energy-producing regions—the
Caspian Basin, the Middle East, and Russia—and energy-consuming markets in Europe. This
geographic advantage gives Türkiye a potentially important role as both a transit corridor and an emerging energy hub linking Asia and Europe.
Türkiye seeks to transform from an energy transit country into a regional hub linking Asian producers and European consumers. This brief assesses the current state of Turkey’s energy diplomacy and identifies four strategic priorities: accelerating market liberalization, expanding infrastructure, diversifying suppliers, and preparing for the energy transition.
After more than two decades from the birth of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and later of the Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP), its instrumental hand, and more than 28 CSDP missions enacting a variety of the Petersberg tasks (which somehow arbitrarily delimitate the scope of permissible crisis management actions), the European Union (EU) seems to have exhausted the high ambitions inserted in the Lisbon Treaty of becoming a world actor capable of a true external action.
While global attention remains focused on the wars in Ukraine and the escalating confrontation involving Iran in the Middle East, another strategic issue is quietly intensifying in the background: the fragility of global semiconductor supply chains.
At a time when international law has effectively ceased to exist, when the laws of war have disappeared, when the United Nations has been rendered practically defunct, and when immoral bandits can start major wars with the most shameless rhetoric—openly targeting and killing civilians and children—it is precisely the moment to republish an old article. So that we may better understand what the human being is, and what “civilization” is.
Water security in the Middle East has transcended its traditional boundaries as a sectoral infrastructure concern. Today, it represents a complex governance and security challenge shaped by the converging pressures of climate change, demographic shifts, rapid urbanisation, and geopolitical fragmentation. Understanding and addressing this challenge requires moving beyond siloed approaches to embrace the integrated perspective offered by the Water–Energy–Food (WEF) Nexus framework.
Water security in the Middle East has transcended its traditional boundaries as a sectoral infrastructure concern. Today, it represents a complex governance and security challenge shaped by the converging pressures of climate change, demographic shifts, rapid urbanisation, and geopolitical fragmentation. Understanding and addressing this challenge requires moving beyond siloed approaches to embrace the integrated perspective offered by the Water–Energy–Food (WEF) Nexus framework.
In February 2026, India’s space agency accelerated plans for its own national space station while simultaneously progressing a remarkable pipeline of nearly 80 satellites spanning Earth observation, navigation, disaster management, scientific research, and data relay for its human spaceflight agenda.
The psychology of terrorism has long been dominated by fragmented explanatory paradigms, including psychopathological models, rational choice theory, social learning frameworks, and structural grievance accounts. While each contributes partial insight, none independently provides a sufficient explanation for terrorist participation.
It is February 2026, and four years have passed since the war between Ukraine and Russia began in 2022. I would have preferred to write that Europe’s period under the shadow of war is coming to an end; however, what exists instead is a fragile and feeble negotiation process. There is not even a publicly announced framework for a peace plan. As time passes, the humanitarian, economic, and geopolitical costs created by the war in Ukraine continue to grow.
Until the early 20th century, global scholarship largely accepted that the roots of European languages lay in the Turkic or Turanian language family, in short, in Turkish. At the very least, the vast majority of scholars recognized and wrote about the deep Turkic influence in European languages going back thousands of years.
The Istanbul Security Conference, first held in Türkiye in 2015 and now in its tenth year, took place on November 27-28, 2025, at the Wish More Hotel Istanbul, organized by the TASAM National Defence and Security Institute, under the main theme of "Defence, Security and Intelligence Revolution: Doctrine, Governance, Industry, New Models and Institutions."
Between the sixth and tenth centuries, the Khazar Turkic Khaganate ruled over a vast territory in Eastern Europe and emerged as a great and powerful state that left a deep imprint on world history. It constituted the origin of the first Rus’ polity and of several other states. The roots of the Ashkenazi Jews—and indeed of all Jews of Eastern and Northern Europe—lie in Khazar Turkic society.
2nd Asia Anew Security Forum, with the main theme of “Security and Intelligence Integration Models,” was jointly organized by TASAM National Defence and Security Institute as a co-event of the 11th Istanbul Security Conference, held on November 27 and 28, 2025, at the Wish More Hotel Istanbul.
The 7th Marine and Maritime Security Forum, with the main theme of "Turkish Naval Power from Seas to Oceans," was jointly organized by TASAM National Defence and Security Institute as a co-event of the 11th Istanbul Security Conference, held on November 27, 2025, at the Wish More Hotel Istanbul.
8. Türkiye-Africa Defence Security and Aerospace Forum was held as a co-event of the 11th Istanbul Security Conference organized by the TASAM National Defence and Security Institute on November 28, 2025, at the Wish More Hotel Istanbul, with the main theme of "African Security Architecture and Türkiye."
The 4th Istanbul Cyber-Securty Forum, with the main theme of “Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Revolution and Cyber-Türkiye”, was jointly held by TASAM National Defence and Security Institute as a co-event of the 11th Istanbul Security Conference, on November 27, 2025, at the Wish More Hotel Istanbul.
Despite tariff shocks, supply-chain fragmentation, and geopolitical uncertainty, India enters 2026 as
an “anchor economy” of the Global South—combining steady growth forecasts with a widening
industrial base in electronics, a more innovation-centered FDI narrative, and an accelerating AI and
green-energy agenda.
9th Türkiye - Gulf Defence and Security Forum; Held as a side event to the 11th Istanbul Security Conference organized by the TASAM National Defence and Security Institute on November 28, 2025, at the Wish More Hotel Istanbul, with the main theme of "Trade Corridor Security and Türkiye."
Speakers and protocol participants from various countries and regions, as well as different fields and sectors, attended the Forum.
Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Participants,
I would like to express my great honor in participating in the 11th Istanbul Security Conference, in which I have been involved since its inception. Furthermore, it is a great honor for me to have been given the task of delivering the keynote address at the opening of the conferences for the past six years.
Welcome to our conference, where you are participating to share your thoughts and ideas. Your participation has given us strength.
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