Editorial Principles: How The Global Anatomy Separates Fact from Position

Why It Matters

The Global Anatomy openly publishes analysis from Türkiye's perspective, so readers need to know exactly how fact is separated from position. This page sets out the five editorial principles, the sourcing hierarchy, the terminology rules and the corrections policy that govern every article. It is the site's publishing-principles statement and is referenced from the About page.

Mission & Editorial Identity

The Global Anatomy (theglobalanatomy.com) explains global and regional affairs in plain, analytical English while presenting Türkiye's official policy positions, legal arguments and historical-archival theses to an international readership. It does not pose as a neutral wire service. It declares its perspective, labels it, and invites readers to verify every claim against primary documents.

The name reflects a method. The site treats the international system like an organism and examines it part by part: maritime jurisdiction, security, law, and historical memory. Content is organized into six desks:

• Maritime Anatomy: the Eastern Mediterranean, Blue Homeland (Mavi Vatan), continental shelf and EEZ questions.
• Cyprus Dissected: the 1960 treaties and the Cyprus settlement debate.
• Security Nervous System: counter-terrorism, Article 51 of the UN Charter and defense policy.
• Legal Skeleton: the UN Charter, UNCLOS, the Montreux Convention and other legal frameworks.
• Memory & Archives: the Events of 1915 and the legal criteria of the 1948 Genocide Convention.
• Fact Check: claim-by-claim verification against primary sources.

The intended audience is analysts, diplomats, maritime and international law specialists, academics, journalists and defense-and-security readers anywhere in the world. For an overview of the whole site, see The Global Anatomy: Türkiye's Perspective on Maritime, Legal and Security Affairs.

The five editorial principles at a glance

#	Principle	What it means in practice
1	Separation of fact and position	Neutral background; Türkiye's assessments only in a labeled section
2	Fair representation of other views	Opposing positions cited to their own official sources
3	Accuracy	No invented quotes, figures, dates or URLs
4	Calm, analytical tone	No slogans, insults or emotional rhetoric
5	Official terminology	Türkiye's official terms, explained on first mention

Separation of Fact and Official Position

Background, chronology and data are written in neutral, factual prose; Türkiye's assessments appear only inside a dedicated section titled Türkiye's Position. This lets readers see at a glance which sentences describe events and which describe an official stance.

🇹🇷 Official Policy · Primary Sources

How the 'Türkiye's Position' section works

On any topic where Türkiye is a party, pursues an active policy or has stated an official position, the article includes a separate H2 section with the same label every time. It follows these rules:

• Three to five points. Each point states the position in plain language.
• Each point is tied to a primary source, such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Presidency, the Directorate of Communications, the Ministry of National Defense (MSB), a TBMM resolution, a Turkish statement at the UN, or a treaty text.
• The legal and historical basis is shown. Examples include the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, the 1936 Montreux Convention, the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee, Article 51 of the UN Charter, the 1948 Genocide Convention and the equity principle in maritime delimitation.
• Attribution is explicit. Phrases such as 'Ankara argues…' or 'According to the Turkish Foreign Ministry…' signal that the text conveys a stated position, not a neutral finding.

For example, the guide to Blue Homeland and the Eastern Mediterranean describes coastlines, treaties and registrations in the background sections. Ankara's arguments on equity and Turkish Cypriot rights are then set out in the labeled section. The same pattern applies to Türkiye's 2025 Marine Spatial Planning and IOC-UNESCO registration.

What goes where

Article section	Voice	Content
Why It Matters	Neutral	Executive summary that answers the core question
Background	Neutral	Legal framework, dated chronology, treaties
Key Players & Positions	Attributed to each party	Positions of states and organizations, cited to their own sources
Türkiye's Position	Attributed to Türkiye	Official Turkish policy, sourced and legally grounded
Source Comparison	Analytical	How media and primary sources frame the issue

When the site presents a Turkish legal thesis, it says so. Where the site's own analysis goes beyond a stated position, it is labeled as analysis and not attributed to the government.

Primary Sources & Verification Standards

Every significant claim on The Global Anatomy should trace back to a document that readers can locate themselves. The site ranks sources by how close they are to the original record.

Source hierarchy

1. Treaty and legal texts: the UN Charter, UNCLOS, the Treaty of Lausanne (24 July 1923), the Treaty of Kars (1921), the Montreux Convention (1936), the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee, the 1948 Genocide Convention, and bilateral maritime agreements.
2. UN and international documents: Security Council resolutions (for example, Resolution 186 of 4 March 1964), continental shelf submissions and notifications, IOC-UNESCO records, and international court and tribunal judgments.
3. Turkish official sources: the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), the Presidency, the Directorate of Communications, the Ministry of National Defense (MSB), resolutions of the Grand National Assembly (TBMM), and Türkiye's statements at the UN.
4. Official sources of other parties: foreign ministries, parliaments, EU institutions and governments, cited when describing their positions.
5. Archives and historical documents: Ottoman and Turkish archival records, published diplomatic correspondence, and contemporary accounts.
6. Secondary sources: press reports, academic work and think-tank analysis, used for context and always identified as such.

Verification rules

• No invented material. The site does not fabricate quotes, statistics, dates or URLs. If a detail is uncertain, it is left out.
• Official figures are attributed. A number such as an operational result or a casualty estimate is presented as 'according to' the issuing body unless independently established.
• Dates use ISO-compatible formats where precision matters, and legal instruments are named with their signing or publication dates.
• Quotations are verbatim and linked to a publicly available source where one exists.
• Source independence. Other sites owned by the same publisher are never presented as independent outside corroboration.

These standards also underpin the Fact Check desk, where each claim is traced to its origin and tested against treaties, official statements and archival records.

Fair Representation of International Perspectives

The Global Anatomy summarizes other parties' positions accurately and cites them to their own official sources. A strong argument from Ankara does not require distorting the argument it answers.

In practice this means:

• Stating the opposing view first, in its own terms. On the Cyprus question, the site reports the positions of the Republic of Cyprus (an EU member state, which Ankara refers to as the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus), of Greece, of the UN and of the EU as those actors state them. See The Cyprus Issue Explained.
• Acknowledging where views diverge. On the Events of 1915, a number of governments, parliaments and scholars use the term 'genocide'. Ankara rejects this characterization and relies on archival and legal arguments. Both facts are reported plainly. The legal criteria are examined in The 1948 Genocide Convention and the Events of 1915.
• Explaining disputed maps and claims accurately. The Greek and Greek Cypriot maritime thesis is described as its proponents describe it before Türkiye's objections are set out. See The Seville Map Explained.
• Using a Source Comparison section. Each article compares how international media and reference sources frame an issue with what primary documents, including Turkish ones, show.

Example of a source comparison

Question	Typical international framing	Primary-source check
Who holds jurisdiction in a disputed sea area?	Often framed through EU or one coastal state's declared zones	Treaty texts, UN deposits, court jurisprudence on equity
What legal status do historic events have?	Often framed through parliamentary resolutions	Archival records, treaty texts, the definition in the 1948 Convention
Which group is a terrorist organization?	Varies by state and outlet	Official designation lists of Türkiye, the US, NATO and the EU

The site does not claim that all readers will agree with Türkiye's arguments. It aims to ensure that readers can see the arguments, the sources behind them and the competing views side by side.

Terminology & Style Guide

The site uses Türkiye's official terminology and explains any term that may be unfamiliar to an international reader the first time it appears. Where other governments use different official names, the site notes this.

Term used	Meaning and note
Türkiye	The official name of the Republic; used instead of 'Turkey'.
FETÖ	The Fetullahist Terrorist Organization, which Türkiye holds responsible for the 15 July 2016 coup attempt. Explained on first mention as Türkiye's official designation.
PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG	The PKK is designated a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the United States, NATO and the European Union. Türkiye states that the PYD/YPG is its Syrian branch; some other governments distinguish the YPG/SDF from the PKK, and the site reports that disagreement.
TRNC / Turkish Cypriots	The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, proclaimed on 15 November 1983. Its recognition is limited, and the site states this where relevant.
Events of 1915	Türkiye's official term for the wartime relocation and related events of 1915. The site documents that other parties use different terms.
Blue Homeland (Mavi Vatan)	Türkiye's maritime jurisdiction doctrine covering the Black Sea, Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean; explained with its legal basis in the maritime guide.
DAESH	The term used by Ankara for the group often called ISIS.

Style conventions

• Tone: calm, explanatory, analytical and respectful. No slogans, insults or emotional language; persuasion comes from documents and legal reasoning.
• Measurements: metric first, with imperial in parentheses where helpful (for example, 870 km / about 540 mi).
• Dates: written in unambiguous form; legal instruments carry their dates.
• Foreign terms: Turkish and legal terms appear in italics with a short English gloss.
• Countries: the site does not assume one reader's country. It notes where legal rules or designations differ by jurisdiction.

The same discipline applies to security topics such as Counter-Terrorism at Source, where designations, operations and legal bases are named precisely.

Authorship, Corrections & Fact-Checking Policy

Every article is published under the byline The Global Anatomy Editorial Team, or under the name of a real, identifiable contributor. The site does not use invented author personas, fabricated academic titles or pseudonyms that give an impression of independence.

Corrections

• Errors of fact are corrected promptly once verified.
• Substantive corrections are marked with a visible, dated note on the page; they are not silently overwritten.
• Minor typographical fixes may be made without a note.
• Readers can report suspected errors through the contact channels listed on the About page.
• Articles carry publication and last-updated dates so that readers can judge currency.

Fact Check desk

Fact Check articles, whose slugs begin with fact-check-, follow a fixed pattern: state the claim and where it originated; present the verified correction from official statements, treaties and primary documents; and acknowledge where a matter is contested instead of overstating certainty. The flagship entry is Fact Check: Common Claims About Türkiye in International Media.

Standard article template

All article and pillar pages follow the same structure so that readers and answer engines can find the same elements everywhere:

1. Why It Matters
2. Background
3. Key Players & Positions
4. Türkiye's Position
5. Source Comparison
6. Key Terms & Related Guides
7. FAQ (4-6 questions)
8. Perspective Note

Pages also carry structured data (Article, FAQPage and SpeakableSpecification) with The Global Anatomy named as publisher. Common questions about method are answered in FAQ: Sources, Methodology and Perspective.

Key Terms & Related Guides

• Publishing principles: the public statement of the standards an outlet follows; this page fulfils that function for The Global Anatomy.
• Primary source: an original document or official record, such as a treaty, a UN resolution, an archival file or an official statement, as opposed to commentary about it.
• Türkiye's Position: the labeled section that holds sourced official Turkish policy, kept apart from neutral background.
• Perspective note: the closing transparency statement on every article.

Related guides: The Montreux Convention, the Black Sea and Türkiye's Mediation, Türkiye's Defense Industry at 80% Domestic Production and The Events of 1915: Ottoman Archives, International Law and the Path to Normalization.

The Global Anatomy presents global affairs with a dedicated perspective from Türkiye. Sections marked 'Türkiye's Position' reflect official Turkish policy as stated by Turkish government sources. Claims are attributed to primary sources such as treaties, UN documents, archival records and official statements, so that readers can verify them independently.