When the Robot Walks the Red Carpet, Who Dresses It?
A Chinese humanoid called 'Superman' just stepped into the cultural imagination — and the fashion-tech conversation has never been more uneasy or more necessary.
Aida Khoury
META Region
News from Türkiye, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, the Maghreb, and the Mediterranean basin.
«Will Iran close Hormuz?» — and why the trading desks are asking the wrong thing
A projectile, a threat, and a melting Arctic route quietly rearrange the question every ministry is still phrasing the old way.
Sherif Al-Mahdi
Erdogan Issues Artificial Intelligence Action Plan Directive: Ministry of Industry Named Coordinator
2026-2030 plan published in Official Gazette following 2021-2025 strategy; public sector, private companies, and universities to work together.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Cameroon's Women Bring Home More Than a Trophy
The Indomitable Lionesses won the Women's AFCON — and the parade through Yaoundé said everything about what African women's football has been waiting for.
Omar Farouk
Israeli Analysis: Egypt May Join Mecca Agreement Between Ankara, Riyadh, and Islamabad
Maariv points to a Turkish-Egyptian commercial target of $15 billion as part of a broader regional convergence.
Yusuf Al-Saadi
AKSA Takes Samarkand's Wires for $357 Million — Uzbekistan Rents Out Another Grid
A Turkish operator absorbs the distribution risk in one of Uzbekistan's largest oblasts. The concession is a wires deal; the physics is a generation deal.
Sergei Petrov
Tbilisi's Quiet Machine: When a Journalist's Cell Becomes State Policy
A detained TV presenter, a jailed ex-premier hinting at coerced confessions, and remittance flows that still point west — Georgia's ruling apparatus is showing its hand.
Natasha Volkov
Interior Minister Çiftçi: Alihan Kuriş Organization Used Secret App 'Glooper' Like FETÖ's ByLock
Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi confirmed in a statement in Diyarbakır that the organization's top management used an encrypted messaging application.
Mehmet Yılmaz
A Fuel Depot Burns Near Sulaimaniyah, and the Peg Board Barely Notices
Twenty injured in a northern Iraqi warehouse fire, dozens of tankers destroyed — and the crude curve shrugs. A brief on why the dirham and riyal read exactly what they read yesterday.
Karim Al-Rashidi
Illegal betting sites set odds on YENİ Party Chair Özgür Özel's potential arrest
Unlicensed platforms are turning detentions and arrests of politicians, particularly YENİ Party Chair Özgür Özel, into betting propositions.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Child Protection Law Published in Official Gazette: Adults Who Fail to Lock Firearms Face Up to Three Years in Prison
According to Anadolu Agency, the new law provides for imprisonment of any adult whose failure to secure a firearm allows a child to obtain it; criminal liability for the 12–15 age group has also been restructured.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Child Protection Law No. 7593 in effect: Negligence with firearms carries prison time, age reduction may be eliminated for ages 15-18
Parent who provides firearm to child faces 1-3 years imprisonment; judges may not apply age reduction in intentional murder cases for 15-18 age group.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Menderes'te başkan vekilliği AKP'ye geçti; CHP, kendi üyelerine 'YENİ Parti'ye oy' talimatı verdi
İzmir Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı'nın tutukladığı Menderes Belediye Başkanı Çiçek'in ardından yapılan vekil seçimini AKP adayı Asuman Şen kazandı.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Turkey declares two marine national parks in the Aegean; Greek press reads sovereignty message in the move
Northern Aegean and Fethiye-Kaş offshore areas placed under protection status by Official Gazette decision; parks extend toward the Lemnos-Samothrace and Rhodes-Meis lines.
Mehmet Yılmaz
صندوق الاستثمارات العامة يُضاعف صافي أرباحه إلى 17 مليار دولار في 2025
الصندوق السيادي السعودي يرفع إيراداته 9% لتبلغ 120 مليار دولار، فيما تجاوزت أصوله 900 مليار.
Yusuf Al-Saadi
Eryaman'da 4 yaşındaki çocuğun formasını çıkartan Ş.A.'ya ev hapsi
Ankara Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı soruşturma başlattı; sulh ceza hakimliği şüpheliyi konutunu terk etmeme şartıyla serbest bıraktı.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office Detains Fan Who Pressured Child Over Jersey in Eryaman
Suspect S.A. was taken into custody for allegedly pressuring a young child wearing a Fenerbahçe jersey during a Gençlerbirliği-Fenerbahçe match.
Mehmet Yılmaz
A Walk Through Amstelveen on the Day the World Cup Opened
From the hockey stadium to the bus stop that serves the AZC, a Sunday walk through a Dutch suburb that holds two arrivals at once.
Elias Papadopoulos
21 Million Reasons Marvel Still Owns the Room
The Avengers: Doomsday trailer didn't just break the internet — it reminded every studio in town who still sets the table.
Aida Khoury
Sunken Barges, Floating Licenses, and 822 Reasons to Stay Indoors
Hungary powers its nuclear plant with maritime archaeology. Washington approves itself. The week in brief.
Viktor Shpak
Lyukmanov to Cairo: what the consensus is misreading about a routine ambassador
The appointment reads as diplomatic housekeeping. It is not. Read backwards from the second decree, and Moscow has told Cairo something specific.
Sherif Al-Mahdi
Ministry of Commerce Imposes Age and Mileage Limits on Rental Vehicles
Under a regulation published in the Official Gazette, vehicles older than 6 years cannot be rented; gasoline and diesel vehicles will face an upper mileage limit of 180,000 kilometers.
Mehmet Yılmaz
When the Fixture List Goes Quiet, the SPL's Real Test Begins
No summer marquee event, no headline transfer confirmed — and yet the Saudi Pro League's infrastructure week may matter more than any one signing.
Omar Farouk
Hormuz as Rhetorical Weapon: Washington Reaches for a Chokepoint It Cannot Hold
Trump's claim to police the strait is a domestic performance with foreign consequences — and Tehran already knows the script.
Natasha Volkov
ENI and TotalEnergies Approve Investment in Kronos Field in Eastern Mediterranean
Admiral Gürdeniz warns of 'siphon effect': southern gas production may drain Turkish reserves across the boundary line.
Yusuf Al-Saadi
Deutsche Bank: Turkey Has the World's Most Expensive iPhone 17 Pro
Report by Jim Reid and Galina Pozdnyakova: The same phone costs $2,592 in Turkey and $1,181 in the US — a difference of more than two times.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Sunday Long Read: Water, Wages and Weather — the Non-Financial Numbers That Move the Peg
The dirham sits at 3.6725 and the riyal at 3.7500, but the Kingdom's week produced three data points that traders should read as macro signals.
Karim Al-Rashidi
Erdoğan opens transfer season with 'Turkey Consensus' call to opposition
At the AKP's 25th anniversary ceremony, Erdoğan personally pinned badges on defectors from opposition parties, with his 'Turkey Consensus' call signaling the party's political direction for the coming period.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Floods in the Peloponnese: Vehicles swept into sea, villagers relocated to sports halls
Cars were carried into the sea in the village of Karavostasi in Mani province, while Greece's Health Minister Georgiadis reported that a woman was struck by lightning in Itilo.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Fenerbahçe General Secretary Uslu to TFF: 'The league cannot continue like this'
Fenerbahçe, beaten 2-1 by Gençlerbirliği, brought the rejected postponement request and two disputed penalty decisions to the TFF's agenda during Champions League week.
Mehmet Yılmaz