Tipping Point

Welcome to a new episode of The Tipping Point from the TRT World Research Centre. In this episode, we examine how technological supremacy and elite human capital have been transformed into the primary strategic levers of 21st-century warfare. Following the FBI’s expanded review in late April 2026 into the mysterious cases of scientists connected to sensitive American defence, aerospace, energy, an...

Welcome to a new episode of the Tipping Point from the TRT World Research Centre. In this episode, we examine how Israel has turned food, infrastructure, and humanitarian access into strategic instruments of pressure in the Gaza Strip. The U.S.–Israel war on Iran did not create Gaza’s hunger crisis from scratch, but it has intensified the conditions under which Israel’s restrictions on crossings,...

Welcome to a new episode of the Tipping Point from the TRT World Research Centre. In this episode, we examine the volatile intersection of power, survival, and succession at the highest levels of Iranian politics. Following the unprecedented US–Israeli strike that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, we ask a deeper question: what does this geopolitical rupture reveal about the hidden mechanisms of the...

Welcome to a new episode of the Tipping Point from the TRT World Research Centre . In this episode, we go beyond the headlines of the recent, massive document release linked to Jeffrey Epstein. Following the U.S. Department of Justice’s disclosure of over three million pages of records in early 2026, we examine what this archive reveals about the hidden mechanisms of leverage, lobbying, and elite...

Welcome to a new episode of The Tipping Point from the TRT World Research Centre. In this episode, we examine the return of Trumpism and what it means for a world already grappling with fragmentation, multipolar rivalry, and the erosion of the post-war liberal order. Trumpism is no longer a political anomaly or a temporary disruption. Its re-emergence represents a structural shift in how the Unite...

Welcome to a new episode of the Tipping Point from the TRT World Research Centre . In this episode, we examine a decisive shift in Syria that may mark the end of the PKK ’s transnational project along the Euphrates . This represents one of the most significant changes in the region in years, directly challenging the ambitions of external powers seeking to divide Syria . What began as a rapid milit...

Welcome to a new episode of the Tipping Point from the TRT World Research Centre. In this episode, we examine Iran ’s escalating unrest, which began in late December 2025 and has evolved from economic protest into a broader structural challenge. What makes this moment distinct is not only the scale of mobilisation, but the range of actors now involved. While much of the international coverage has...

Welcome to a new episode of The Tipping Point from the TRT World Research Centre. In this episode, we dissect one of the most unprecedented military and diplomatic events in modern history: the execution of Operation Absolute Resolve and the stunning detention of the President of Venezuela , Nicolas Maduro , and his wife, Cilia Flores . The lightning-fast raid by US Delta Force units on Fort Tiuna...

Welcome to a new episode of the Tipping Point from the TRT World Research Centre. In this episode, we confront one of the most disturbing and shadowed dimensions of the ongoing geopolitical conflict: the persistent allegations of Israel organ harvesting and the commodification of human remains. For years, a baffling statistic has circulated in medical and political discourse: Israel has the larges...

Welcome to the premiere episode of the Tipping Point , a new podcast series from the TRT World Research Centre. For decades, the global economic system was predicated on a simple idea: efficiency and multilateral consensus. You traded with whoever offered the best price. But that era is effectively over. Today, we are witnessing a fundamental shift where strategic calculations and national securit...