Bora Balçay

Atlanticist, studying transatlantic security and naval strategy. @georgetownsfs alum.

[NATO Spokesperson @NATOpress]

Preparations are well underway for the #NATOsummit in Ankara!

We’re grateful to our Ally Türkiye 🇹🇷 for hosting leaders on 7-8 July 2026 for what will be an important meeting to further strengthen transatlantic security

[Charles Michel @CharlesMichel]

.@vonderleyen: Türkiye is:

- a core #NATO ally,
- a key migration partner,
- an energy corridor,
- a major defence actor on Europe’s flank,
- and a serious regional power.

Europe doesn’t get stronger by applying double standards or simplifying reality.

[Riccardo Gasco @RiccardoGasco]

📌Von der Leyen reportedly placing Turkey alongside Russia and China is politically telling. It reflects how parts of Europe still struggle to think of Ankara as a strategic partner, even while Europe’s security, energy, and industrial future increasingly requires dealing with Turkey as part of the equation, not outside it. 🇹🇷🇪🇺

[Nacho Sánchez Amor @NachoSAmor]

In a recent speech, @EU_Commission Pres. @vonderleyen portrayed 🇹🇷 as influenting Europe along with 🇷🇺🇨🇳. It's totally inconsistent with recurrent signals for stronger cooperation on security & defense and it is a geopolitically flawed analysis.

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

After years of looking at Turkey as a problem, the EU is now viewing it as part of the solution to its woes.
https://t.co/IMuzfJyv5T

[Samuel Doveri Vesterbye @SamuelJsdv]

Former @Airbus Vice President and long-time senior French 🇫🇷🇪🇺 diplomat, trade expert & defence-sector expert (Denis Verret) confirms what some of us have written & advised for years about 🇪🇺🇹🇷👇⤵️

It’s an important argument on how European #StrategicAutonomy (not theoretically, but in practice) can only truly be achieved through EU-Türkiye 🇪🇺🌍🇹🇷 and EU-Ukraine 🇪🇺🌍🇺🇦 and EU-UK 🇪🇺🌍🇬🇧 relations (& vice versa)👇⤵️

In addition, it should be added that Europe 💶🇪🇺🇹🇷🇺🇦🇬🇧 must pursue independent & diversified nuclear ☢️ energy production at a far greater scale (e.g. especially Germany 🇩🇪🇪🇺) to obtain strategic clout.

https://t.co/ZiPqcDJJoW

Also read @ENC_Europe and my previous analysis over past 5+ years on these topics linked to supply-chains, defence/security & connectivity👇⤵️

✅ Keep Your Friends Close and Turkey Closer https://t.co/y7cQ7cyaee (Doveri Vesterbye, 2020)

✅ Europe’s Strategic Autonomy Rests on Middle Corridor https://t.co/zFtvUgrPGW (Doveri Vesterbye, 2024)

✅ Türkiye and EU are an inseparable due https://t.co/XeKwB4cjbB (Doveri Vesterbye, 2023)

✅ Can Connectivity Reconnect EU & Türkiye https://t.co/5Pxi9emgmB (Doveri Vesterbye, 2024)

✅ Türkiye in the New European Security Architecture https://t.co/65HTfm9mQg (Doveri Vesterbye, 2022-2023)

✅ Central Asia, Türkiye & EU in context of geo-economics & Global Gateway https://t.co/FopbiR6yBz (Doveri Vesterbye, 2024)

[NATO Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum - JFCBS @NATOJFCBS]

🚢💨 Off they go❗️

⚓️TCG Anadolu
⚓️TCG Derya
⚓️TCG İstanbul
⚓️TCG Oruçreis

🇹🇷Anadolu Turkish Maritime Task Group deploys under #NATO’s Allied Reaction Force for Exercise #SteadfastDart26 .

Want to know more?👉https://t.co/2gyqVpvUJ0

#StrongerTogether | #WeAreNATO | #DeterAndDefend

[François Valentin @Valen10Francois]

We need to be a little more humble sometimes as Europeans:

[Ben Hunt @EpsilonTheory]

Front page of WSJ just now. Hang it in the Louvre, man.

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

China and Russia must be having a field day. They are the ones who benefit from divisions among Allies.

If Greenland’s security is at risk, we can address this inside NATO.

Tariffs risk making Europe and the United States poorer and undermine our shared prosperity.

We also cannot let our dispute distract us from the our core task of helping to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.

[Bora Balçay @BoraBalcay]

@RyanFedasiuk People complaining about the analogy are missing the point. It is delusional to treat AI and GPUs as just any other industry. They have high strategic value, and there are plenty of US allies and partners who’d like to buy them. So why insist on selling them to the PRC?

[High Yield @highyieldYT]

Next-gen ASML wafers are smaller, but very yummy.

[Ryan Fedasiuk @RyanFedasiuk]

A little bit louder, for the people in the back:

Selling chips to China is still a terrible idea.

My latest for @AEIfdp:

https://t.co/wMzkmIymYg

[François Valentin @Valen10Francois]

A story older than AI itself

[T.C. Millî Savunma Bakanlığı @tcsavunma]

“Beni görmek demek, mutlaka yüzümü görmek değildir. Benim fikirlerimi, benim duygularımı anlıyorsanız ve hissediyorsanız bu yeterlidir.” Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Cumhuriyetimizin kurucusu, Başkomutanımız Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’ü ebediyete irtihalinin 87’nci yıl dönümünde rahmet, minnet ve saygıyla anıyoruz.

#10Kasım
#GaziMustafaKemalAtatürk 🇹🇷
#MillîSavunmaBakanlığı

[Classical Studies Memes @CSMFHT]

Inferior copper you say? 🤔

[NATO @NATO]

Repost to join us in celebrating our Ally Türkiye 🇹🇷 on Republic Day

#29Ekim #CumhuriyetBayramı

#WeAreNATO 🤝 @TC_NATODT

[T.C. Millî Savunma Bakanlığı @tcsavunma]

Cumhuriyet, bir milletin yeniden doğuşudur.

Cumhuriyet; özgürlüğün, eşitliğin, aydınlığın ve umut dolu yarınların adıdır.

Bugün, 102 yıl önce bir milletin küllerinden yeniden doğduğu günü kutluyoruz.

Bizlere Cumhuriyet'i armağan eden Başkomutanımız Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’ü ve Millî Mücadele kahramanlarımızı, şehitlerimizi ve gazilerimizi rahmet ve saygıyla anıyoruz.

29 Ekim Cumhuriyet Bayramımız kutlu olsun! 🇹🇷

#MillîSavunmaBakanlığı
#GaziMustafaKemalAtatürk
#29EkimCumhuriyetBayramı
#102Yaşında 🇹🇷

[François Valentin @Valen10Francois]

Yes Minister predicted this AOC blunder decades ago