In Türkiye, a man gave up his suicide attempt after being offered a döner kebab.

They look like white American women trying to dance like Balkan girls.

The Turkish lira is surprisingly among the world’s top 50 assets.

Daily reminder: The Greek Cypriot administration has still paid no compensation for the massacres committed against Turkish Cypriots over the past 52 years.

X’s creator team decided Daily Turkic does not make a positive contribution to the platform. Daily Turkic started almost five years ago as a fan project. We started it because the Turkic world was barely on social media. We tried to remain independent and fair, even when it wasn't always easy. We pushed back against Turkophobia, not because we wanted to attack anyone, but because we didn't think our history and our people should constantly be defined by others. We wanted to tell our own story, bring our own perspective into the conversation, and give the Turkic world a voice of its own. We always believed the Turkic world could be connected in a way that had nothing to do with borders, armies or old political ideas. We wanted to build that connection through people. Through culture, language, history, humor, and simply making hundreds of millions of people who share related languages and so many common values feel a little less distant from one another. Daily Turkic was our small attempt to make that world feel more connected. When we began, “Turkic” was not even a mainstream word online. We are not saying we made it one. We were just there while it grew, and we kept showing up. We really did a great job most of the time. We spent hours digging through online archives, drawing maps from scratch, and bringing old stories back from books that nobody was opening anymore. Our maps, graphics, and old photographs, which we spent hours digging out of archives, still circulate across social media. And so do many of the memes we created ourselves. We found, researched, drew, and made these things here. We also post the fun stuff. Viral posts. Arguments. Things that everyone sees because they spark a thought. That’s how you reach people who would never open an informative post. Call those posts low-effort if you want. It is a fair name. They still take a sense of timing. We never treated this place as something to spam. We also put original stories here for years. A few weeks ago we helped push the Nomad Games into a wider conversation. That is one. There are many we cannot even remember now. None of this was ever about getting paid. What felt good was something much simpler: knowing that the platform itself saw some value in the work. That is why the Creator Rewards decision hit differently. X put a program in front of us, made us feel like we belonged, then took it away and acted like we were never meant to be there. That back-and-forth leaves a mark. For a long time, that sense of recognition was part of what kept the spark alive. Right now, that spark is gone. We don't have the same energy we had before, and honestly, we don't know what comes next. This is not a goodbye. We are not disappearing. We just need to think more carefully about what this project is, and what it is worth continuing for, if the house we built it in no longer counts it as original. The Turkic world is still bigger than most people think. That part did not change.

Much of the Jerusalem you see today still carries the mark of an Ottoman Turkish sultan. Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent rebuilt Jerusalem’s Old City walls in the 1530s, including its towers and gates. He also overhauled the city’s water system, built public fountains, restored the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa, renovated markets and strengthened the Citadel. The walls surrounding Jerusalem’s Old City today are largely the ones built under his reign. And the street running beside them is still called Sultan Suleiman Street.

🇹🇷🇸🇦 Türkiye condemned the drone attacks launched from Iraqi territory against Saudi Arabia, reaffirming its solidarity and support for the Kingdom. The attacks targeted Saudi Arabia’s strategic East-West oil pipeline, causing injuries and material damage. Iraq has confirmed that the drones originated from its territory and launched an investigation.

Ever wondered why “Tepe” keeps appearing in the names of archaeological sites across the Turkic world? Göbekli Tepe. Karahantepe. Altyn Tepe. Dalverzin Tepe. Kurgan Tepe. Tepe is a Turkic word associated with a hill, summit or raised mound, with related forms appearing across Turkic languages. But there is a fascinating archaeological reason it became so common. For thousands of years, people in the Near East and Central Asia repeatedly built settlements on top of earlier settlements. Mud-brick buildings collapsed, new houses were built over them, and the layers gradually created enormous artificial mounds. So what looks like an ordinary hill today can actually contain thousands of years of human history underneath it. That is why archaeologists encounter “tepe” sites across an enormous area, from Anatolia through Central Asia and into Iran. Iranian archaeological terminology also uses the related form tappeh, seen in sites such as Tepe Hissar, Tepe Yahya and Haft Tepe. And the scale is wild. Göbekli Tepe is around 12,000 years old. Tepe Giyan contains occupation dating back to the 5th millennium BCE. Tepe Yahya was occupied from roughly 5500 BCE. Kurgan Tepe literally incorporates the idea of a “fortification-mound” in its name. So “Tepe” isn't just a recurring word on archaeological maps. It shows something fundamental about the landscape of this entire region: sometimes the hill you're looking at isn't a hill. It's a civilization, stacked on top of itself.

🇺🇿 Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s daughter is now: • Head of the Presidential Administration • Head of the Tashkent International Financial Center administration • Head of the Security Council And Parliament has approved lifetime immunity and social guarantees for administration employees and their families.

Uzbekistan has unveiled its first automated multi-level parking system in Almazar district, using vertical space instead of expanding parking across already crowded streets.

The new Western Europe map just dropped

🇦🇿🇰🇷 South Korea is spending $5.5 million to bring an ancient Azerbaijani water system back to life. Azerbaijan plans to restore traditional kahriz networks across liberated Karabakh by 2030, with reconstruction starting this year. Kahriz are centuries-old underground channels that naturally carry groundwater to the surface, supplying communities and farmland without modern pumping. Korean KOICA is funding the project as part of South Korea’s development cooperation with Azerbaijan.

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan is joining the Ğ team. The country is changing four letters in its Latin-based alphabet: G‘ → Ğ O‘ → Ö Sh → Ş Ch → Ç That means Uzbek will share all four of these letters with Turkish and Azerbaijani. Turkmen also uses Ö, Ş and Ç. Basically, Uzbekistan is making its Latin alphabet look a lot more Turkic. The Senate has approved the changes, while existing documents, banknotes, signs and government symbols will not have to be replaced immediately.

A Turkish prisoner in the Greek controlled part of Cyprus literally appeared on a YouTube podcast from inside prison. Taner Tolga Tarlacı was allowed to make a video call. Instead of just talking privately, he appeared on YouTube and spoke about his treatment in prison and discrimination because he is Turkish. The podcast was published first. Then the punishment came. Tarlacı was sentenced to 7 days in a punishment cell because prisoners were not allowed to record or broadcast their video calls. The interview went public, attracted widespread attention, and European human rights authorities got involved. His message was heard.

No Mediterranean with self respect is getting in that greenish brown water.

🇦🇿🇦🇲 Azerbaijan and Armenia have agreed to delimit their roughly 1,000 km border from north to south, starting at the Armenia-Azerbaijan-Georgia tripoint and gradually moving toward the Iranian border. So what does this mean? • The border will be addressed section by section rather than all at once. • The two countries will use the Alma-Ata Declaration of 1991 as the fundamental principle, meaning the former Soviet republic borders are used as the starting legal basis. • Delimitation means agreeing on the border's legal location. Demarcation is the next stage, physically marking that agreed border on the ground. • The process is expected to eventually address unresolved areas, including the issue of Azerbaijani and Armenian enclaves/exclaves.

The Ottomans’ biggest mistake was burning men, money, and centuries on the Balkans while the real Europe sat there.

A 15,800 year old dog was buried in Turkey alongside humans. 🇹🇷 Ancient DNA from Pınarbaşı in Central Turkey has identified one of the earliest genetically confirmed domestic dogs ever found. The dog dates to 15,915 to 15,669 years ago, pushing the earliest clear genetic evidence for dogs back more than 5,000 years. And the burial context is interesting. At Pınarbaşı, puppies were buried in the same area as contemporary human burials, with treatment of the dead that mirrors human funerary practices. Isotopic evidence also suggests these dogs had an aquatic component in their diet, likely including freshwater fish that humans were catching and consuming at the site. Then comes the bigger discovery: A roughly 14,300 year old dog from Gough’s Cave in Britain is genetically remarkably similar to the Pınarbaşı dog. The researchers conclude that genetically connected dogs were already spread across Anatolia and Europe by at least 14,300 years ago, long before agriculture and permanent farming societies. The study estimates that this western Eurasian dog population expanded between roughly 18,500 and 14,000 years ago. So the dog wasn’t a late product of civilization. Dogs were already travelling across Eurasia with humans while people were still hunter gatherers. And one of the clearest pieces of that story comes from Anatolia.

A Turkish mathematician just found himself in the middle of a billion dollar AI war. Levent Alpöge, a mathematician at Anthropic, spent about a year working with NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on one of mathematics’ most difficult problems. Then OpenAI entered the race. Alpöge and Buckmaster had developed a highly specific approach to fluid equations, using AI tools including OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude. Their work produced new finite time blowup results for several major fluid equations and was formally verified with Lean. Then, on September 1, OpenAI says it began its own effort after hearing a rumor connected to Alpöge and Buckmaster. Five days later, OpenAI says its internal AI system had completed a proof related to the Navier Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of seven problems carrying a $1 million prize. That is where the story gets explosive. Buckmaster claims OpenAI learned about their progress, realized their approach might work, and then deployed enormous computational resources to beat them to the finish line. He also claims an OpenAI executive proposed arrangements that would have resulted in Alpöge being removed from the authorship, allegedly because he works for rival AI company Anthropic. OpenAI denies wrongdoing and says its proof was developed independently. OpenAI has also said something remarkably complicated: it did not access the mathematicians’ specific private data, but it cannot rule out the possibility that deidentified data from their use of OpenAI products indirectly helped improve its models. So this is bigger than a math breakthrough. It is a new kind of scientific arms race: Humans discover the route. AI companies discover the result. And the fight becomes: who actually deserves the credit? And right in the middle of it is Levent Alpöge, a Turkish mathematician.