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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicRecep Erdogan

Topic: Recep Erdogan

Turkey to host COP31 as standoff ends, Australia will lead climate negotiations

Neither country was willing to concede initially but Australia backed down in exchange for its representative chairing talks. Experts say test will be what next COP brings to table.

Turkish court delays ruling to oust opposition leader and annul party congress

Hundreds of CHP members, including President Erdogan’s main rival, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, are jailed pending trial in a sweeping probe over graft and terrorism links.

Erdogan calls for firming up Pakistan-Turkey-Azerbaijan axis, Baku offers $2 bn for Islamabad

Trilateral meeting comes after Operation Sindoor. Ankara & Baku have supported Islamabad’s call for a neutral investigation into the Pahalgam terrorist attack.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.