crisis

Tehran Water Crisis: Only Two Weeks of Supply

The Tehran water crisis has reached an imminent and acute stage. An Iranian official issued a warning on 2 November 2025, stating that the main reservoir supplying the metropolitan area holds only two weeks of consumable water (Daily Sabah; Al Jazeera). This public acknowledgment of critically low water levels underscores a structural vulnerability in the...

Türkiye’s 2026 Budget Proposal Submitted to Parliament

The government of Türkiye has formally submitted its 2026 Central Government Budget Law Proposal to the presidency of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (hereinafter: TBMM). The proposal, announced by Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz, outlines the government’s fiscal plans and economic projections for the year. Türkiye’s 2026 budget projects total expenditures of 18,929 trillion Turkish...

Lesbos and Notre Dame

Every day, we have contact with countless pieces of information. This information reaches us through newspapers, television channels, the internet, social media or radio. On a daily basis, we have to make choices about what information we process and how we process it and these factors shape our perception of the world and our actions...

Turkey: The Country of the Cardinal Sins

If, by now, you do not acknowledge that Turkey is experiencing a massive economic crisis, then you probably never will. Probably, the country will soon go bankrupt, if no comprehensive reforms are adopted, but Turkey has other deep wounds, too. Arguably, the Turkish society might be experiencing its most tragic era in its long and...