On August 1, Turkiye announced that a swap of 26 prisoners between Russia and several Western countries had been coordinated in Ankara, in the largest prisoner swap since the height of the Cold War.

A war of words has broken out between Israel and Turkiye after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened his country could intervene militarily in Israel’s war on Gaza.

Turkiye is working to increase its diplomatic and economic influence across Africa and strengthen its ambitions from the east of the continent to its west, at a time when it is preparing to begin exploration for gas and oil off the Somali coast.

In a sign of growing frustration over a lack of progress in talks to join the European Union, Turkiye is holding talks and negotiations with the BRICS countries.