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Pakistan’s four provinces could be divided into 12, or perhaps 15, or maybe even 160 much smaller and less powerful units. It this comes to pass, it is clear who will benefit economist.com/leaders/2026/1…
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WHERE THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A WAY.
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Can the family behind Türkiye’s drone revolution engineer a culture of innovation?
In Kasurian’s latest Autumn 2026 essay, The Bayraktar Complex, Selim Baş explores the family whose ambitions now extend from military aircraft to the institutions shaping Türkiye’s technological future.
Raised on the workshop floor by an engineer father and a computer-programmer mother, the Bayraktar brothers inherited a conviction that technical competence was essential to national sovereignty. Their outlook grew in an Anatolian Muslim milieu where faith, industrial production, and political independence were closely intertwined.
Baykar’s drones would make that ambition tangible. From Ukraine to Karabakh, their battlefield performance brought the family international recognition and helped transform Türkiye from a buyer of foreign weapons into a major supplier.
The family is now attempting to give the education they inherited an institutional form. Through schools, science centres, investment funds, and the vast Teknofest competitions, the Bayraktars are creating opportunities for young people to build, experiment, and enter technical professions.
Their ambition reaches beyond training engineers. It seeks to make technological achievement part of Türkiye’s public culture, giving scientific and industrial work a place in the country’s understanding of its future.
Whether this project succeeds will depend on the institutions it builds: their ability to cultivate talent, sustain technical judgement, and turn one family's achievements into opportunities for a wider society.
Read more on Kasurian. Link in reply below:
ALT Kasurian, Autumn 2026. The Bayraktar Complex. Words by Selim Baş. After making Türkiye a drone superpower, the Bayraktar family is building institutions to engineer a culture of innovation. Ahmet Faruk Yılmaz’s ink illustration shows Baykar aircraft above Istanbul and a factory, with a crescent, star and floral motifs on a cream background.
Younus | یونس retweeted
Today is a mathematical date we won't see again for 78 years.
10/24/26
10² + 24² = 26²
It's called a Pythagorean Triple Day. There are infinitely many Pythagorean triples, but only 12 dates this century satisfy the equation.Today is the last.
Next one: March 4, 2105.
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I filed together this piece with @FrudBezhan -- Opium cultivation fell dramatically in Afghanistan, the world’s largest producer, after the Taliban imposed a narcotics ban in 2022. Since then, production has surged in neighboring Pakistan and Iran. rferl.org/a/opium-taliban-af…
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Younus | یونس retweeted
The Iran war is quietly turning a forgotten insurgency into a Gulf security problem.
#Balochistan, the divided homeland of the Baluch across southeastern #Iran and southwestern #Pakistan, is moving to center stage.
My new piece for @GulfIntlForum 🧵
gulfif.org/beyond-hormuz-why…
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A major diplomatic blow to Greece, a real setback for the Israel-Greece-Cyprus energy axis, and a clear win for Ankara.
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🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced people on buses who vape, play loud music, litter or threaten others will face £100 fines from today
My most random encounter in Istanbul was with a Kurdish coffee seller from Mardin who was fluent in Urdu and had spent time in Peshawar. It felt as though we had lived in parallel timelines.
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I don't know enough about these protests to form a generalizing opinion but this is terrible. In no way are the living circumstances of these protesters worse than young Iraqis. When they protested in 2019, not a single public office was sacked, not one store was robbed, and no monument destroyed.
