Voters in both Turkiye and Greece went to the polls this month, and those in Turkiye will do so again on Sunday in a presidential election runoff between incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.

Iran has revealed plans for a free trade zone with Turkiye, with an agreement expected to be signed in the next couple of months.

With just over a week until Turks vote in the most critical elections their country’s history, all eyes are fixed on what the outcome will mean for both Turkiye and the wider region.

While the region’s countries have put aside their militarized foreign policies thanks to the normalization climate that is sweeping the Middle East, the clashes in Sudan have reinforced the militarization of politics there, bringing large-scale instability on to the doorstep of key actors.