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Is Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Turkey’s Zelig?

" If the 13th-century Sufi scholar Seyyid Mahmud Hayrani was his grandfather, Kılıçdaroğlu's ancestry hails from the Ottoman Palace with one of his great-grandfathers being the qadi of Mehmed the Conqueror and another being his grand vizier! Kılıçdaroğlu once made a long speech at the Yörük Workshop, saying, "What struggles were waged in these tents against the oppression of the Ottomans!" However, before the Great Yörük gathering in January 2023, he did not call the Ottomans cruel this time, but visited the tombs of the people he claimed were his grandfathers in front of television cameras.

China vs Russia in Central Asia?

This organization at times was defined by external observers such as Matthew Brummer and Richard Weitz as “the world’s least-known and least analyzed multilateral group, an OPEC  with bombs and a prospective anti-American Asian NATO.

Macron, the Gulf, and Islam

For the first time since the horrific murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018, a major head of state of the Western world agreed to meet Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the Saudi crown prince, widely considered the mastermind of this crime.