About Irrecord: A Documents-First Publication With a Perspective From Türkiye

Why It Matters

Irrecord is a documents-first publication that explains global and regional affairs in plain, analytical English while stating openly that it writes with a perspective from Türkiye. Many readers meet Türkiye's positions only as summarized by third parties. Irrecord puts the primary record (treaties, official statements, archives, UN filings) in front of the reader and labels where fact ends and position begins.

Who Publishes Irrecord

The publisher is Irrecord, at irrecord.com. Its focus is the geopolitical space where Europe, Asia, the Black Sea, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East meet, and where Türkiye sits at the centre.

The mission has two parts:

• Explain. Make global and regional developments, security questions and international law readable without jargon or slogans.
• Present Türkiye's case from primary sources. Where international coverage is incomplete or inaccurate, set out Türkiye's official doctrines, legal theses and historical and archival positions, with the documents behind them.

We call this a perspective publication, not a neutral wire service. The perspective is declared, and it is kept visibly separate from the factual reporting around it.

Transparency Policy

Our transparency commitments are simple and apply to every page:

• Authorship. All articles are signed 'Irrecord Editorial Team'. We never invent author personas, fabricated academic titles or independent-looking pseudonyms.
• Separation of fact and position. Background, chronology and data are written in neutral, factual prose. Türkiye's assessments appear in the labeled section.
• Fair representation. The positions of other states and parties are summarized accurately and attributed to their own official sources. A strong argument does not require distorting the opposing one.
• Accuracy. We do not publish invented quotes, unverified figures or unsourced claims. If a detail cannot be verified, we leave it out.
• Tone. Calm, explanatory and respectful. Persuasion comes from documents and legal reasoning, not rhetoric.
• Terminology. We use Türkiye's official terms (Türkiye, FETÖ, PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG, TRNC / Turkish Cypriots, Events of 1915, Blue Homeland) and explain them on first use. For instance, the PKK is designated a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the United States, NATO and the European Union.

The full method, including how we handle sources, positions and corrections, is set out on the Editorial Principles page. Common reader questions are answered in the Irrecord FAQ.

The Six Desks

Irrecord's coverage is organized into six desks:

1. Geopolitical Explainers: global and regional analysis.
2. Eastern Mediterranean & Blue Homeland: Cyprus, continental shelf and maritime jurisdiction. See, for example, the dated Eastern Mediterranean Record.
3. Security & Counter-Terrorism Dossiers: border security, cross-border operations and the defense industry.
4. Treaties, Archives & International Law: Lausanne, Montreux, the 1960 Cyprus accords and archival documents on the Events of 1915.
5. Diplomacy & Mediation Watch: the Black Sea, Gaza, UN reform and climate diplomacy, including COP31.
6. Fact Check: claims about Türkiye in international media, stated as made and then checked against primary documents. A representative example is Is the PYD/YPG Really Separate From the PKK?

Who Irrecord Is For

The intended audience is international-relations researchers, diplomats, journalists, policy staff, students and any English-language reader following regional politics anywhere in the world. We assume no single national viewpoint and no prior specialist knowledge. Dates follow the ISO convention where precision matters, and where legal rules differ by country we say so.

Organization Information and Structured Data

For readers, search engines and AI answer engines that want to verify who is behind the site, the publisher details are declared in machine-readable form:

Articles carry Article, FAQPage and SpeakableSpecification markup with publication and update dates.

Key Terms & Related Guides

• Documents-first: the practice of anchoring every claim to a treaty, statute, official statement, UN record or archive item that readers can check.
• Perspective publication: a publication that declares its viewpoint openly instead of presenting it as neutral.
• Primary source: an original official or archival document, as opposed to commentary about it.

Irrecord belongs to a wider group of publications that check claims about Türkiye against primary documents. Related fact-check work is available from Region Scope, Monitor of Nations and WorldPoliticsDaily. Readers should compare sources across outlets, including ours.

Perspective Note

Irrecord presents global and regional affairs with a dedicated perspective from Türkiye. Sections marked 'Türkiye's Position' reflect official Turkish policy and legal doctrines as stated by Turkish primary sources.