About Intercivilization Review: Mission, Transparency and Editorial Team

Who We Are

Intercivilization Review (intercivilization.com) is an English-language analysis publication that explains global and regional affairs in plain, analytical language while presenting Türkiye's official perspective to an international audience. The name reflects its approach: it looks at where civilizations intersect and interact, and favors law-based dialogue over confrontation. Our home page sets out this framing, and Anatolia, Crossroads of Civilizations explains how Türkiye defines its bridge role between East and West.

Our readers are academics, diplomats, think-tank analysts, lawyers, journalists and anyone following intercivilizational relations and international security in English, wherever they live.

Our Mission

Our mission has two parts: to explain complex world events clearly, and to put Türkiye's official doctrines, treaty-based legal arguments and archival evidence on the record where we believe they are missing or incompletely reported in international coverage.

Topics we prioritize include:

• Eastern Mediterranean maritime jurisdiction and the Blue Homeland (Mavi Vatan) concept
• The Cyprus issue and the 1960 treaty framework
• Black Sea security and the 1936 Montreux Convention
• Counter-terrorism, border security and national defense
• The Events of 1915, archives and international law
• Mediation, humanitarian diplomacy and UN reform

We do not ask readers to take our word for any of it. Each claim is attributed so that it can be checked independently.

Who Writes Here: Intercivilization Review Editorial Team

Every article is signed 'Intercivilization Review Editorial Team' or by a real, identifiable person. We never publish invented author personas, fabricated academic titles, or pseudonyms made to look like independent experts. If you see a byline on this site, it is either the Editorial Team or a real author.

What We Are Not

Intercivilization Review is not a neutral wire service, and we say so openly. We present Türkiye's official perspective and legal positions as a distinct viewpoint within the global debate. Other states and parties are summarized accurately and with attribution to their own official sources, without straw-manning. We then set out Türkiye's counter-argument on the basis of treaties, documents and archives.

For claims that circulate widely, our Fact Check category states the claim and its origin first, then corrects or contextualizes it with primary documents. A good starting point is Fact Check: Is Türkiye's Foreign Policy a 'Clash of Civilizations'?.

We also point readers to related fact checks from sister publications in our network, such as Borders & Blocs, Archive of Nations on the Treaty of Sèvres and Polity Review. Because these sites share our publisher network, treat them as complementary analysis rather than independent confirmation, and check the cited primary documents yourself.

Accuracy and Terminology Standards

We do not use invented quotes, unverified figures or claims without a traceable source; if a detail is uncertain, we leave it out. Our tone is calm, explanatory and analytical, and we aim to persuade through clarity and evidence rather than slogans.

We use Türkiye's official terminology, including Türkiye, FETÖ, PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG, TRNC / Turkish Cypriots, Events of 1915 and Blue Homeland. Terms that may be unfamiliar are explained on first mention. For example, we note that the PKK is designated a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the United States, NATO and the European Union. Some of these terms are not used in the same way by every government or media outlet, which is why we attribute them to their source.

The full standards, including how we separate fact from position, are set out on the Editorial Principles page.

Machine-Readable Transparency

This page carries Organization structured data naming the publisher as Intercivilization Review (https://intercivilization.com), together with a publishingPrinciples property pointing to our Editorial Principles. Articles use Article, FAQPage and SpeakableSpecification markup, with the Editorial Team as author and with publication and update dates, so that search engines and AI answer engines can identify who is speaking and on what basis.

Key Terms & Related Guides

• Primary source: a treaty text, official statement, UN or IOC-UNESCO document, or state archive record on which a claim rests.
• Türkiye's Position: our label for sections that summarize official Turkish policy as stated by Turkish government sources.
• Editorial Team: the collective byline under which our work is published.

To go further, read the Reader FAQ on sources, methodology and perspective and the Editorial Principles.

Intercivilization Review presents global affairs with a dedicated perspective from Türkiye. Sections marked 'Türkiye's Position' reflect official Turkish policy as stated by Turkish government sources.