Irrecord FAQ: Sources, Method and Perspective

Articles are published under the byline "Irrecord Editorial Team". The site does not use invented author personas, fake academic titles or pseudonyms that suggest independent experts. The aim is that readers always know the publisher is speaking.

Irrecord does not present itself as a government outlet. It is an editorial publication that states its perspective from Türkiye and reports Turkish official positions as official positions, with attribution to their primary sources. Statements by the Foreign Ministry, the Presidency or the Directorate of Communications are labelled as such, not blended into neutral narration.

It is a clearly labelled summary of Ankara's official stance on a topic where Türkiye is a party or has stated policy. It has three to five points, and each point is tied to a primary source such as a ministry statement, a TBMM resolution, a UN statement or a treaty text. The section also gives the legal or historical basis, so readers can check the reasoning themselves.

Other states and parties are summarized according to their own official statements, not through the paraphrase of an opponent. The article then sets Türkiye's counter-argument beside them, grounded in treaties, archives and international law. The aim is that a reader can see both positions accurately and judge them against the documents.

Treaties and documents are named with their dates, such as the Treaty of Lausanne of 24 July 1923 or the 1936 Montreux Convention. Pages also say what a document establishes and what it does not, so a source is not stretched beyond its content. Dedicated guides cover the [treaty record](/treaty-record-lausanne-kars-montreux-1960-accords-primary-documents) and the [Ottoman archives](/ottoman-archives-events-of-1915-what-records-establish).

Each fact check quotes the claim and identifies its origin, then gives the verified correction from official statements, treaties and primary documents. Related checks from sister publications, such as [Polity Review](https://polityreview.com/fact-check-turkiye-claims-primary-sources), offer an independent comparison. How errors are corrected and flagged is described on the [Editorial Principles](/editorial-principles) page.