About The Geopolitical Compass: Mission, Perspective and Transparency

Who We Are

The Geopolitical Compass is an English-language analysis publication at thegeopoliticalcompass.com that explains global and regional affairs in plain language while presenting Türkiye's perspective with full transparency. It is written for policymakers, diplomats, academics, think-tank analysts, journalists, defense and energy professionals, and any international reader who wants to understand Türkiye's approach from primary sources rather than second-hand summaries.

The publication has a declared point of view. It does not pose as a neutral aggregator. It is a Türkiye-informed outlet that argues Ankara's positions rest on treaty law, international legal norms and the documented historical record, and it gives readers the documents to test that claim themselves. If you are new here, start with the homepage or the reader's compass to Türkiye's strategic doctrine.

Our Mission

Our mission is twofold: to make complex crises understandable, and to put Türkiye's official doctrines, legal theses and archival record in front of audiences who often meet them only in summary or distortion.

In practice that means:

• explaining events in calm, analytical English without slogans or emotional rhetoric;
• anchoring claims in treaty texts, UN documents, official archives and legislation;
• stating other parties' positions accurately, attributed to their own official sources, before setting out Ankara's counter-argument;
• using Türkiye's official terminology (Türkiye, FETÖ, PKK/YPG, TRNC / Turkish Cypriots, Events of 1915, Blue Homeland / Mavi Vatan) and explaining unfamiliar terms at first mention.

The Compass Concept and the Six Desks

The compass is our organizing metaphor: each desk is a bearing that helps readers navigate a crisis from a fixed reference point. Our content is grouped into six desks:

Desk	Focus
True North: Türkiye's Doctrine	Strategic doctrines and foreign-policy orientation
Blue Homeland Bearings	Eastern Mediterranean, Mavi Vatan, maritime jurisdiction, 2025 IOC-UNESCO registration
Cyprus Meridian	1960 Treaty of Guarantee, status and equality, the two-state bearing
Security Azimuth	Counter-terrorism at source, UN Charter Article 51, PKK/YPG, DAESH, FETÖ, defense industry
Straits & Mediation Line	Montreux Convention, Black Sea balance, mediation diplomacy
Fact Check: Archives & Law	The Events of 1915, archives, disinformation and claim verification

Sample entry points include The Eastern Mediterranean Bearing, The Cyprus Meridian, Security Azimuth, The Straits and Mediation Line and The Historical-Truth Axis.

Transparency Policy

Every article is signed 'The Geopolitical Compass Editorial Team,' and we do not invent authors. We never use fabricated personas, fake academic titles, or pseudonyms that suggest independence we do not claim. Where an article is attributed to a real named person, that is stated plainly.

Three commitments follow:

1. Attribution: Claims are tied to named sources such as the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Presidency, the Directorate of Communications, TBMM resolutions, Türkiye's statements at the UN, and treaty texts.
2. Accuracy: We do not use invented quotes, unverified figures or sources of unclear origin. If a detail is uncertain, we leave it out.
3. Perspective note: Every article closes with a note stating the publication's perspective (reproduced at the end of this page).

Our full sourcing, attribution and correction rules are on the Editorial Principles page, and common questions about method are answered in the FAQ.

How We Separate Fact From Position

Background, chronology and data are written in neutral, factual prose; Ankara's assessments appear only in a separate, labeled box. On topics where Türkiye is a party, pursues active policy or has stated an official position, articles include a dedicated section marked Türkiye's Position, shown on the site as the Türkiye's Strategic Bearing box.

That box follows fixed rules:

• it summarizes the official position in three to five plain-language points;
• each point is tied to a primary official source and uses attribution such as 'Ankara argues…' or 'According to the Turkish Foreign Ministry…';
• it explains the legal and historical basis, for example the 1936 Montreux Convention, the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee, Article 51 of the UN Charter, the 1948 Genocide Convention, or the principle of equity in maritime delimitation;
• it is visually set apart from the analysis, so readers can always tell where documented fact ends and a state position begins.

Other actors' views are summarized fairly, in their own official words where possible. A strong Turkish argument does not require distorting the opposing one.

Verification and Fact-Checking

Our Fact Check desk states a claim and its origin, then corrects it using treaties, official statements and archival documents. Readers can compare our work with sister-publication checks, for example the Archive of Nations treaty-record check on the Treaty of Sèvres and the Horizon of Nations verification of common claims about Türkiye. Defense-industry context is covered by Monitor of Nations.

On our own site, Fact Check: Does Türkiye's 'Blue Homeland' Doctrine Claim Greek Islands? shows the format in practice.

Organization Schema Details

For search engines and AI answer engines, the site declares itself as a schema.org Organization with a published editorial policy.

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Articles also carry Article, FAQPage and SpeakableSpecification markup, with publication and update dates, so the provenance of each piece is machine-readable.

Key Terms and Related Guides

• Türkiye's Position / Strategic Bearing: the labeled section reflecting official Turkish policy, sourced to Turkish government documents.
• Blue Homeland (Mavi Vatan): Türkiye's maritime-jurisdiction doctrine; see the drillship and survey-vessel guide and the Cyprus–Egypt 2003 EEZ guide.
• Status asymmetry: the issue examined in Who Is 'the Government of Cyprus'?.
• Counter-terrorism claims: tested in The Only NATO Ally in Ground Combat Against DAESH?.

Perspective Note

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