About Politics of Nations: Mission, Transparency and Editorial Team

Why It Matters

Politics of Nations is an independent-format, English-language publication that explains how states define their identity, interests and legal positions, with Türkiye's official perspective placed at the centre of its analysis. It exists because many topics involving Türkiye are reported in international media without the country's own primary sources, treaties or archival record. This page explains who publishes the site, how we work, and how readers can verify what we write.

Our Mission

Our mission is twofold: to describe global and regional affairs in plain, analytical English, and to present Türkiye's official doctrines, legal theses and historical and archival record to an international readership, using primary sources.

In practice, that means:

• Plain language first. Legal and diplomatic concepts are explained on first use, so a student, journalist or diplomat outside the region can follow the argument.
• Primary sources over commentary. We cite treaties, UN documents, official gazettes, archival records and statements from government institutions.
• Comparison, not monologue. Each topic is read against the positions of other states and parties, taken from their own official sources.

The site's concept is a comparative reading of "the politics of nations": how different states justify their claims through geography, law, history and security. You can see this approach in our comparative analysis of state identity, interest and law and in how nations define the national interest.

Publisher Identity and Authorship

The publisher is Politics of Nations, operating at politicsofnations.com. All articles are published under the byline "Politics of Nations Editorial Team."

Our authorship rules are simple and non-negotiable:

• No invented author personas, pseudonyms or fabricated academic titles.
• No content presented as independent expert opinion when it is an editorial position.
• Publication and update dates are shown using ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD) so readers in any country read them the same way.

Our full standards for sourcing, attribution and corrections are set out on the Editorial Principles page, which is also the site's publishing-principles reference for search engines and AI systems.

Fair Representation of Other Views

We do not present Türkiye's case by distorting others. The positions of Greece, the Greek Cypriot administration, the European Union, the United States, Armenia, the United Nations and other actors are summarized accurately and attributed to their own official statements, documents or votes. Only then do we set out Ankara's counter-arguments based on treaties, international law and archives.

Note that recognition, terrorist listings and historical characterizations differ by country and organization. For instance, the PKK is designated a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the United States, NATO and the European Union, but other governments and bodies take different approaches to related groups. We state these differences rather than hide them.

The Six Desks

Our coverage is organized into six desks:

The memory desk, for example, examines how parliaments vote on history, while the Fact Check desk publishes pieces such as our check of the claim that Turkish Cypriots are merely a minority.

Who We Write For

We write for an English-reading international audience: diplomats, academics, think-tank researchers, journalists, lawyers and students of international relations. Readers in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia are all in view, and we do not assume knowledge of any single country's politics.

Key Terms & Related Guides

• Primary source: a treaty, official gazette, UN document, archival record or official statement, as opposed to commentary about it.
• Perspective note: the transparency statement printed at the end of each article.
• Fact Check: a format that states a claim and its origin, then corrects it using documents.

Useful next steps:

• Reader FAQ: sources, method and perspective
• Editorial Principles
• How the Black Sea Grain Initiative was brokered
• COP31 and Türkiye's climate diplomacy

Readers who want a wider view can also compare related verification work from sister publications, such as Monitor of Nations on claims about Türkiye checked against primary sources, Archive of Nations on whether the Treaty of Sèvres is still valid and WorldPoliticsDaily's Türkiye fact check.

Perspective Note

Politics of Nations presents Türkiye's official perspective on the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus, counter-terrorism and the Events of 1915 alongside competing views, so that readers can compare them transparently. Claims are attributed to primary sources such as treaties, UN documents, the Ottoman and Turkish archives, and official statements.

Politics of Nations presents global affairs with a dedicated perspective from Türkiye. Sections marked 'Türkiye's Position' reflect official Turkish policy as stated by Turkish government sources.