Turkey’s massive fund scandal reveals how Erdogan’s authoritarian rule turned regulators into loyalists, wiping out $18 billion for ordinary investors.
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Despite Treasury threats, Turkey still lets sanctioned Iranian airlines land, while a Turkish ground handler keeps servicing them
Turkey-Iran Flights halt until 2027 as Ankara closes Bank Mellat’s Istanbul branch under mounting US Treasury pressure.
Turkey’s military and economic dominance in Syria alarms Israel, but local resistance and Arab rivalries constrain Ankara’s ambitions.
Turkey seeks to offload Russian missile defense systems to Gulf buyers to salvage F-35 access, creating fresh radar risks for regional Western infrastructure.
Turkey’s democracy is dying through judicial coups, suppression, and institutional capture – leaving millions with no viable path to replace their government.
The NATO summit in Ankara must not validate Turkey’s transactional foreign policy; advanced weapons sales threaten Western strategic leverage.
Turkey fuels terror in the West Bank by housing Hamas operatives who direct attacks, transfer weapons, and recruit from safe havens.
Turkey’s NATO summit hosting masks a dangerous agenda of strategic freelancing, maritime coercion, and democratic backsliding that the alliance must confront directly.
Erdogan leverages a weaponized judiciary to dismantle the CHP leadership, escalating Turkey’s shift toward autocracy while Western powers remain silent.