Ankara

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will visit Ankara next week for high-level discussions with Turkish officials, the alliance announced in a press release on Friday.

Scheduled for Monday, Rutte's visit will include meetings with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, and Defense Minister Yasar Guler.

Rare photographs from the official mourning ceremony in Anatolia for modern Türkiye founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, held on Nov. 21, 1938, have surfaced, showcasing the nation's profound collective grief.

The images were uncovered during archival research by Barış Bolat, director of the Atatürk and Çanakkale Wars Research Center (AÇASAM) at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (ÇOMU).

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is expected to be in Athens next Tuesday (26/11) to hold a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Greek government officials.

Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis is set to brief the leaders of Greece's political parties next week regarding key foreign policy issues, according to a statement from the ministry of foreign affairs.

Following statements by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan regarding Greek-Turkish relations, and his repeated reference to a “Turkish minority in Western Thrace,” diplomatic sources provided the following clarifications:

Turkey has voiced sharp criticism of a European Commission map delineating potential maximum maritime zones for Greece, calling it an affront to its territorial claims in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Türkiye has introduced its first domestically developed quantum computer, the result of 14 years of research by TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara.

The computer was unveiled during a ceremony in the capital on Nov. 21, attended by Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz, Defense Industry Agency head Haluk Görgün and several sector representatives.

Some 500 workers have barricaded themselves inside their mine in the capital Ankara, staging a protest against the decision to privatize their workplace.

The Çayırhan Thermal Power Plant and its affiliated coal mining fields, which are currently under state administration, have recently been slated for sale to a private entity. The tender process for the sale is still underway.

National Intelligence Organization (MİT) chief İbrahim Kalın has briefed Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Özgür Özel and the party's central executive board on the nation's counterterrorism strategies.

Tensions have risen in Ankara following the recent European Commission map related to the EU’s Maritime Spatial Planning Framework, which granted maximum maritime influence to all Greek mainland and island territories.

After a 21-month pause, Turkey has reverted to its old tactics of violating Greek airspace in the Aegean.