About The Regional Assessment: Mission, Perspective and Editorial Team

Why It Matters

The Regional Assessment is an English-language publication that explains regional risk, balance of power and international law, and presents Türkiye’s official doctrines, legal theses and archival evidence to international readers. It exists because many of these topics are covered incompletely in global media. We state our perspective openly and attribute every factual claim to a source you can check.

Who We Are: Publisher Identity

The publisher is The Regional Assessment, at theregionalassessment.com. The word “assessment” describes the format: each analysis aims to be evidence-based, measurable and tied to primary sources. The home page sets out the full framing of risk, balance and legal analysis on Türkiye and its region.

For machine-readable transparency, the site declares itself with Organization structured data:

• Name: The Regional Assessment
• URL: https://theregionalassessment.com
• Publishing principles: linked to Editorial Principles
• Article markup: Article, FAQPage and SpeakableSpecification, with the publisher listed as the Organization above and the byline, publication date and update date included

Our Mission

Our mission has two parts:

1. Explain. We describe regional and global developments in calm, plain, analytical English, without slogans or emotional language.
2. Present Türkiye’s case with primary evidence. Where international coverage is partial or distorted, we set out Türkiye’s official doctrines, legal arguments and historical record, and we test opposing claims against documents and legal criteria.

We do not present this as neutral reporting from nowhere. We present it as an openly declared perspective, backed by documents.

Who We Write For

Our readers are policy makers, diplomats, think-tank analysts, academics, journalists and corporate risk teams worldwide. We assume no single national audience. Where laws or practices differ by country, we say so, and we use internationally understood conventions such as ISO dates and metric units with imperial equivalents where helpful.

Our Transparency Policy and Byline

Every article is published under one byline: “The Regional Assessment Editorial Team.” We do not invent author personas, fabricate academic titles, or use independent-looking pseudonyms. If an individual’s name is ever attached to a piece, it is a real person.

Our transparency commitments are:

• Fact and position are separated. Background, chronology and data are written in neutral, factual prose. Türkiye’s assessments appear in a clearly labelled section and are attributed (“Ankara argues…”, “According to the Turkish Foreign Ministry…”).
• Other views are represented accurately. We summarise other states’ and parties’ positions by citing their own official sources, and then test them against treaties, archives and legal standards.
• No invented material. We do not use fabricated quotes, unverified figures or sources of unclear origin. If a detail is uncertain, we leave it out.
• Official terminology is explained. We use terms such as “Türkiye”, “PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG”, “FETÖ” and “TRNC / Turkish Cypriots”, and we explain them on first use. For example, the PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the United States, NATO and the European Union.

The full sourcing and attribution rules are on the Editorial Principles page.

What We Cover

Our work is organised into six desks:

• Blue Homeland & Eastern Med Desk: maritime jurisdiction, continental shelf and UNCLOS debates. See the Eastern Mediterranean Risk and Balance Scorecard.
• Cyprus Assessment Desk: the 1960 treaties and settlement models. See Cyprus Settlement Options Assessed.
• Counter-Terrorism & Security Desk: Article 51 of the UN Charter, PKK/YPG, DAESH, FETÖ and the Terror-Free Türkiye process.
• Defense Industry & Capabilities Desk: see Defense Industry as a Regional Balance Variable.
• 1915 Archives & Law Desk: documents, legal criteria and the 2005 Joint Historical Commission proposal.
• Fact Check Desk: claims tested against primary sources, such as Is the 2019 Türkiye–Libya Maritime Memorandum ‘Void’ Because of Crete?

Key Terms & Related Guides

• Perspective Note: the disclosure at the end of each article stating that our analysis reflects Türkiye’s official positions and is verifiable through primary sources.
• Primary source: a treaty, UN document, archival record or official statement, as opposed to commentary about it.
• Fact check: a dedicated format that states a claim and its origin, then corrects it with documents.

For methodology questions, see the FAQ on sources, methodology and perspective. For comparable fact-checking from our sister publications, see Regional Order’s fact check of common claims about Türkiye and Crossroads Review’s primary-source checks. For defence-industry data, see Monitor of Nations on Türkiye’s roughly 80% domestic production.

Contact and Corrections

If you spot a factual error, a broken citation or a missing primary source, contact the Editorial Team through the contact route on theregionalassessment.com. Corrections are handled under the rules in Editorial Principles, and updates carry a revised date.

Perspective Note

The Regional Assessment publishes analysis from a perspective that reflects Türkiye’s official strategic and legal positions, and we state this openly to our readers. Factual claims are attributed to primary sources such as treaties, UN documents, archival records and official statements, so that readers can verify them independently.