Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sits beside Iranian officials and other leaders during his swearing-in ceremony in Tehran on July 30, 2024. On the first row, second to the left, is Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. (Getty Images)
Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gives a press conference during the NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 12, 2023. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
Bayraktar Kemankes, the mini smart cruise missile developed by Baykar, is introduced during TEKNOFEST in Istanbul, Turkiye on April 27, 2023. (Arife Karakum via Getty Images)
Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Joe Biden shake hands at the start of the first plenary session of the NATO summit in Madrid on June 29, 2022. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images)
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken signs a book of condolence after the earthquake in Türkiye during his visit to the Turkish Embassy in Washington, DC, on February 10, 2023. (State Department photo by Freddie Everett)
Russian diesel-electric Kilo class submarine Rostov-on-Don sails through the Bosphorus Strait on its way to the Black Sea on February 13, 2022. (Photo by Ozan Kose / AFP via Getty Images)
People gather for an exhibition called "Not a joke, a genocide" to raise awareness against China's policies and human rights violations towards Uyghurs in Istanbul, Turkey on March 14, 2021. (Photo by Onur Coban/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presents statements following the Cabinet Meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on October 5, 2020. (Photo by ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Turkish President and leader of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during the group meeting of AK Party at the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara, Turkey on February 24, 2021