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Hakan Fidan is a bureaucrat who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye since 2023. Previously, he held the position of Director of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT). Early Life and Education Hakan Seedling was born in 1968 in the Hamamönü neighborhood of Ankara. He received his education at the Armed Forces Communications School and the Army Forces Language School. During his service in the Turkish Armed Forces, while posted abroad in NATO, he completed h

A Security and Defense Partnership between the Republic of Türkiye and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, signed on 8 July 2026 on the margins of the 36th NATO Summit of Heads of State and Government held in Ankara. The document was signed following a bilateral meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Signing Process President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continued his bilateral engagements within the framework of the 36th NATO Summit of H

Türkiye's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program began in 1999 when Türkiye joined as an applicant participant. The process continued with Türkiye becoming a Level III partner in the System Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase on 11 July 2002 and signing the Memorandum of Understanding for Production, Sustainment and Follow-on Development (PSFD) on 25 January 2007. As part of this, Türkiye became a potential user of the F-35A fighter aircraft and one of the partner nations in the program’s

Funeral Rites of Ayatollah Seyyid Ali Khamenei, planned for 4–9 July 2026 in Iran and Iraq, are the farewell, funeral, and burial ceremonies for Ayatollah Seyyid Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, who was killed in a joint air strike by the United States and Israel against Iran on 28 February 2026, along with family members who perished alongside him in the attack. The ceremonies are scheduled to take place over six days across six cities: Tehran, Qom, and Mashhad in Ira

Muhammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, served as Chief of Staff of the Libya Armed Forces between 2020 and 2025. He was appointed to this position in 2020 by the Government of National Accord and continued in office during the subsequent Government of National Unity. During the post-2011 period, he played a key role in military structures based in Tripoli and in organizing forces loyal to the Government of National Accord. He lost his life in an airplane crash on his return from an official visit to Türk

The Russia-ASEAN Leaders Summit, held as part of the 35th anniversary of relations between Russia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), took place in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation, on 17–18 June 2026. All 11 member states of ASEAN participated in the summit, with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., in his capacity as ASEAN Chair, co-chairing the meetings. The summit marked the first comprehensive