About The Longpeace: Mission, Transparency and Editorial Team

Why It Matters

The Longpeace is a specialist diplomacy publication, published at thelongpeace.com, that explains mediation, crisis diplomacy, treaties and regional affairs in plain English while presenting Türkiye's official doctrines, legal theses and historical positions to international readers. It has a stated perspective, and this page sets out what that perspective is, how it is labelled and what rules govern our writing, so you can judge every article with full knowledge of who is speaking.

Who We Are and What We Cover

The Longpeace is the publisher (the 'brand') behind thelongpeace.com. Our focus is the work of making and keeping peace: negotiation, mediation, guarantees, treaty regimes and the legal arguments that sit behind them. Our home page maps the full publication.

Coverage is organized into six desks:

• Crisis Desk: the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus, Syria, Gaza and the South Caucasus.
• Mediation Files: the Istanbul and Antalya talks, the Black Sea grain corridor and other brokered cases.
• Treaty & Legal Dossiers: the 1960 Cyprus treaties, the 1936 Montreux Convention, Lausanne and Kars, and maritime registrations.
• Summit & Multilateral Watch: NATO, UN Security Council reform, the Organization of Turkic States and COP31.
• Historical & Archival Diplomacy: the Events of 1915 and Türkiye–Armenia normalization.
• Fact Check: corrections of false or incomplete claims about Türkiye, checked against primary documents.

For a sense of how we work, see Mediation Files: How Türkiye Brokers Talks Between Adversaries and Treaties That Keep the Peace: Why Montreux, Lausanne and Kars Have Lasted.

Our Mission

Our mission has two parts: to explain global and regional developments in clear, analytical language, and to bring Türkiye's official positions, legal arguments and archival evidence to readers who often meet them only second-hand. We believe topics such as maritime jurisdiction, Cyprus, counter-terrorism and the late Ottoman period are frequently summarized in international coverage without the primary texts. Our aim is to put those texts, treaties, dates and official statements in front of the reader.

We write for international relations researchers, diplomats, journalists, policymakers, students and anyone who follows regional politics in English. We assume no single national audience. Where rules or practices differ between countries, we say so.

Who Writes: The Longpeace Editorial Team

Articles are published under the byline 'The Longpeace Editorial Team' or under the name of a real, identifiable person. We do not use invented author personas, fabricated academic titles, or pseudonyms that suggest independent voices. If an article draws on a named official, scholar or document, that source is cited openly, and we never invent quotations, statistics, dates or URLs. If a detail cannot be verified, we leave it out.

Fact Versus Position

Background, chronology and data are written in neutral, factual prose; assessments and doctrinal arguments appear only in labelled sections. The tone is calm and explanatory, without slogans or insults, and we rely on documents, treaties and legal reasoning rather than rhetoric. We use Türkiye's official terminology (Türkiye, FETÖ, PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG, TRNC / Turkish Cypriots, Events of 1915, Blue Homeland) and explain unfamiliar terms on first use. For example, we note that the PKK is designated a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the United States, NATO and the European Union.

Our Fact Check desk names a claim and its origin, then corrects it using primary documents. A sample is Fact Check: Can Türkiye Be a Credible Mediator in the Russia–Ukraine War, or Is It Taking Sides?. Similar verification work appears across our sister publications, such as Horizon of Nations: Fact Check: Common Claims About Türkiye in International Media, Verified Against Primary Sources. For defense-industry data, see Monitor of Nations: Türkiye's Defense Industry: How Domestic Production Reached About 80% and What It Means.

The Perspective Note on Every Article

Every article ends with the same transparency note: 'The Longpeace presents global affairs with a dedicated perspective from Türkiye. Sections marked 'Türkiye's Position' reflect official Turkish policy as stated by Turkish government sources.' We do not present the publication as a neutral aggregator, and readers should treat it as one clearly labelled viewpoint to be read alongside other sources.

Structured Data and Editorial Principles

This page carries Organization structured data identifying The Longpeace (https://thelongpeace.com) as the publisher, and it links to our publishing principles. Articles use Article, FAQPage and speakable markup, with the author shown as The Longpeace Editorial Team and with publication and update dates. The detailed rules on sourcing, the separation of fact and position, and corrections are set out on Editorial Principles: Sources, Fact–Position Separation and Corrections. Questions about method are answered in The Longpeace FAQ: Sources, Methodology and Perspective.

Key Terms & Related Guides

• Primary source: an original official statement, treaty text, gazette entry or archival document rather than commentary about it. See our Editorial Principles.
• Perspective note: the closing disclosure that The Longpeace writes with a dedicated perspective from Türkiye.
• Fact–position separation: the rule that neutral background and Türkiye's official assessments are never blended in the same section.
• Starting points: The Longpeace home page, Mediation Files, and Treaties That Keep the Peace.

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