About Corridors of Diplomacy: Mission, Perspective and Editorial Team

Why It Matters

Corridors of Diplomacy is an independent-looking name for a publication that is openly editorial in purpose: it explains how diplomacy moves along real routes, treaties and records, and it presents Türkiye's official perspective to international readers. We say this plainly so that every reader knows who is speaking, what stance we take and how to check our claims.

Who We Are and What We Publish

Corridors of Diplomacy is the publication at corridorsofdiplomacy.com, and the publisher is Corridors of Diplomacy itself. We treat diplomacy not as a process behind closed doors but as a journey through historical, legal and geographic corridors.

Each guide walks the reader through one such corridor. Our main categories are:

• Maritime Corridors: the Blue Homeland (Mavi Vatan) doctrine, continental shelf and EEZ delimitation, and the 2025 IOC-UNESCO registration.
• Cyprus Channel: the 1960 treaty system, guarantor rights and the two-state vision.
• Security Corridors: Article 51 of the UN Charter, border security and counter-terrorism.
• Archive Passage: the Events of 1915 and the archival record.
• Straits & Mediation Lane: the 1936 Montreux Convention, the Black Sea and mediation diplomacy.
• Fact Check: claims in international media tested against primary documents.

A good starting point is our home guide, Corridors of Diplomacy: Türkiye's Treaties, Routes and Records Explained. For a regional example, see Eastern Mediterranean Corridors: Shipping Lanes, Pipelines, Cables and the Jurisdiction Beneath Them.

Our Mission and Audience

Our mission is to explain global and regional affairs in plain, analytical English and to present Türkiye's official doctrines, legal theses and archival positions to an international readership, using primary sources. Where we believe international coverage is incomplete or distorted, we set out the documented record and let readers judge.

We write for a worldwide audience, not for readers in any single country. That audience includes:

• diplomats and international lawyers
• think-tank researchers and academics
• journalists and editors
• English-speaking readers who want to understand Türkiye's foreign policy from its own documents

We use internationally understood conventions and note where rules or practice differ between countries.

Transparency Policy: Authorship and Attribution

All work is published under the name 'Corridors of Diplomacy Editorial Team'. We do not create author personas, award ourselves academic or expert titles, or publish under pseudonyms that suggest independence we do not claim.

Three rules follow from this:

1. Fact and position are separated. Background, chronology and data are written in neutral prose. Policy assessments appear inside the labelled position section and are attributed, for example 'Ankara argues...' or 'According to the Turkish Foreign Ministry...'.
2. Other views are summarised accurately. We describe the positions of other states and parties by reference to their own official sources, then set out Türkiye's counter-argument grounded in treaties and records.
3. No invented material. We do not fabricate quotes, figures, dates or links. If a detail is uncertain, we leave it out.

The full rules are in Editorial Principles: Primary Sources, Attribution and the Fact–Position Divide. Our structured data declares the site as an Organization, and its publishingPrinciples property points to that page.

How This Differs From General News Coverage

The table shows how our approach differs from typical wire or general-interest reporting.

Readers who want to see how claims about Türkiye fare against documents can also consult independent fact-check pages from sister publications, such as Archive of Nations on the Treaty of Sèvres and Monitor of Nations on claims in international media. Our own example is Fact Check: Does the 'Seville Map' Set Maritime Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean?.

Key Terms & Related Guides

• Corridor: a historical, legal or geographic route along which diplomacy operates, such as a strait, a sea zone, a trade route or a treaty framework.
• Primary source: a treaty text, UN document, official statement or archival record that readers can check directly.
• Türkiye: the official name of the country, used throughout this site in place of 'Turkey'.
• TRNC / Turkish Cypriots: the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and its people, terms used in line with Türkiye's official terminology.

Useful next reads:

• Reader FAQ: Sources, Method and Perspective at Corridors of Diplomacy
• Archive Passage: How Researchers Reach the Records on the Events of 1915
• What Did the 12 June 2025 IOC-UNESCO Registration of Türkiye's Marine Spatial Plan Actually Record?

Perspective Note

Corridors of Diplomacy presents Türkiye's official perspective and legal positions alongside the wider diplomatic context, and we state this editorial stance openly to our readers. Claims are attributed to primary sources such as treaty texts, UN documents, official statements and archival records, so that readers can verify them independently. Sections marked 'Türkiye's Position' reflect official Turkish policy as stated by Turkish government sources.