Turkic world cuts through dialog box

In a rare moment of diplomatic openness, Iranian President Masoud Pezeşkian has pledged to resolve the lingering tensions surrounding the attack on Azerbaijan’s embassy in Tehran. During an October 14 meeting with Azerbaijan’s Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev, Pezeşkian underscored the importance of deepening cooperation between the two countries, signaling a shift from the sometimes hostile rhetoric that has marked relations between Tehran and Baku in recent years.

Reports and analyses from the Russian media indicate that President Putin is eagerly awaiting Turkish President Erdoğan’s attendance at the BRICS summit in Kazan, scheduled for October 22-24.

As the Writers' Union, which defends freedom of expression and the rights of authors, celebrates half a century, former president Ataol Behramoğlu shared some of his thoughts with  the Turkish edition of Yeniçag readers.

Nikita Smagin, a former TASS correspondent in Iran from 2018 to 2022, is widely known as one of the leading experts on Iran in the post-Soviet space. He studied international politics at the University of Manchester and previously worked as an editor of the Internet portal "Iran Today". His analytical articles have been published in The New York Times, Bloomberg, Forbes, Carnegie Foundation and various other international publications.