🇹🇷🇮🇷🇷🇺WHY TURKIYE IS NOT BEING TARGETED BY ANYBODY ? Cargo ship Rozana (IMO 9198381) is a ship flying the Belizean flag but owned by a #Turkish company. On March 8, 2026, it crossed the Strait of Hormuz without incident, with #Iran’s approval.⬇️ 1/4 🧵

How convenient. Another pass for Turkey. Turkish bank, Halkbank helps the Iranian regime evade U.S. sanctions, now the Justice Department has asked the judge to drop the criminal case. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

🇹🇷🇺🇸With just a few weeks to go before the #NATO summit in Ankara, the US President is flattering and protecting President #Erdogan. As a result, Erdogan is gradually giving in to their demands. al-monitor.com/originals/202…

Another theater in the Israel-Turkey rivalry to watch is Somalia/Somaliland. For Israel, Somaliland is not just depth for the Houthis/Iran, but also to "contain" Turkish influence in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea, given Ankara's strong partnership with Somalia. One of many factors in the complex competition in the Horn of Africa/broader Red Sea region.

🇦🇲🇹🇷 Turkish Media Reports Possible Opening of the Armenia–Turkey Border in Summer 2026 Turkish newspaper Yeni Şafak reports that the Armenia–Turkey border could be opened for land transportation and trade in the summer of 2026. According to the report, the Alican–Iğdır border crossing is expected to open first, followed later by the Akyaka–Kars crossing. Trade volume between the two countries, currently estimated at $300–350 million, could reportedly increase to around $1 billion. So far, this remains a media report and has not been officially confirmed by either government.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚔️🇮🇷 US-led coalition air defenses intercepted at least one drone over Erbil, northern #Iraq, as multiple drone strikes targeted Iranian Kurdish opposition sites. Three drones hit a camp northeast of Erbil belonging to anti-regime groups; separate strikes struck the Freedom Party’s headquarters. Explosions & smoke plumes also reported in nearby Sulaymaniyah The coordinated raids signal a sharp escalation in #Iran’s shadow war against Kurdish dissidents based in Iraqi #Kurdistan, with Western forces now directly drawn into the crossfire

🇹🇷⚔️🇮🇱 The war of words between #Israel & #Turkey is escalating alongside regional tensions. Erdogan accused Netanyahu of "genocide" in Gaza & warned that Israeli actions in Syria, Lebanon & the Eastern Mediterranean threaten Turkey's security Netanyahu responded by calling Erdogan an "anti-Semitic dictator," while Israeli officials issued unusually direct threats. The exchange highlights a deepening Israel-Turkey confrontation as the Middle East faces growing instability

🇮🇶 The first writing system, the first civilization, the first empire, the first written laws, the first lunar calendar, and the first written epic all originated in this region. This is Uruk (Iraq) in Mesopotamia.

Thread 🫧 Iranians are worried that the most immediate threat is water stress. Iran uses more than 90% of its renewable water to support agriculture as rising temperatures accelerate the loss. Al Jazeera breaks down Iran’s water crisis ⤵️

🇹🇷⚔️🇷🇺 Erdogan’s “strategic autonomy” fantasy just died screaming For a decade #Turkey ditched NATO for #Russia: S-400s, Russian gas, Akkuyu nuke, Syria deals. Then inflation, lira crash & an earthquake exposed the truth—Ankara has no friends left except the West it spent years humiliating Now he’s begging for Eurofighters, US LNG & NATO love. Offered the S-400s back to Putin. Crawling home with tail between legs A very good article to read in @ForeignAffairs ⬇️ foreignaffairs.com/turkey/tu…

🇹🇷🤝🇸🇦 #Turkey & #SaudiArabia signed MoUs Tuesday to revive the century-old Hejaz Railway, the Ottoman-era line linking Istanbul to the Gulf via Syria, Jordan & Saudi Arabia Ankara is pushing hard: first restore the Turkey-Aleppo stretch, then connect south, eventually reaching Oman as an overland bypass for the Iran-disrupted Strait of Hormuz Turkish Trade Minister Ömer Bolat called it a move to “reduce Israel’s influence” & deliver “prosperity & stability” across the region Neo-Ottoman connectivity, rebranded as crisis response

#Syria: water releases from the #Euphrates Dam ceased today due to the suspension of water inflows from Turkey. The Dam will now maintain a normal discharge rate of ~700 m³/s for electricity generation. Water levels in the Euphrates river are expected to return to normal within 72 hours. The move will bring an end to the largest water release in decades, which caused widespread flooding in areas along the Euphrates in Raqqa & Deir Ezzor countryside.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced the appointment of new ambassadors to several diplomatic missions, including Kyiv and Turkey's inaugural embassy in Reykjavik.