Turkey Tension Score
building record · 4 days on fileLive 0–100 tension reading for Turkey, built by our own engine from 2,698 world headlines in the last 30 days. Refreshed every 10 minutes; a fresh headline count twice a day.
Where Turkey stands
#11 of 197 countries today, #7 of 16 in Middle East (region score 67). Tension is steady this week.
Same 0–100 scale and zones as the World Tension Index.
Turkey news pulse
20 headlines in 30 days · newest firstEvery story the engine read that names Turkey, its capital or its leaders. Links go to the original outlet; the badge is the engine’s own 0–100 tension weight. This list is what moves the number above.
What is driving Turkey’s tension score
last 30 days- 22 headlines in 30 days — 0.82% of everything the engine read, in line with the previous 30 days (0).
- 55% of those were violent (attacks, strikes, casualties) and 45% scored as high-tension stories.
- Conflicts on the roster: Kurdish Nationalist Conflicts (active).
- Region: Middle East reads 67 today; it carries 15% of this score.
Read it like this. Attention (how much the world is talking about Turkey) is the biggest input at 30%. Violence and high-tension share tell you what kind of talk it is. A country can be loud and calm — an election, a summit — or quiet and dangerous. The mix is the point.
Turkey tension month by month
average score, headline counts| Month | Avg score | Zone | Headlines | Violent | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 35.0 | Calm | 22 | 12 | 4 |
Record for Turkey began on 18 September 2026. Nothing is revised after the fact.
How the Turkey score is built
Five inputs, fixed weights. Attention 30% (share of world coverage), violence 25% and high-tension share 15% (what kind of coverage), roster conflicts 15%, and the Middle East region score 15%. A momentum nudge (+6 / −4) rewards a country whose coverage is accelerating or fading.
Same physics as the world score. The number rises 85% of the way to its new level at once and falls no faster than 3 points a day — fear arrives fast and leaves slowly.
No third-party index inside. Every count comes from the 41 public news feeds our engine reads itself; the full method is on the methodology page. Data is free under CC BY 4.0 via the API.
Questions people ask about Turkey
Is Turkey in a war right now?
Yes, by our roster: Kurdish Nationalist Conflicts. Status is updated on every full cycle.
Is tension in Turkey rising or falling?
Too early to say — the 7-day change appears once a week of data exists.
How does Turkey compare with the rest of Middle East?
Below its region: Turkey reads 39 against 67 for Middle East, ranking #7 of 16 there.
Keep exploring
Same region
Iran 66 · Israel 59 · Yemen 59 · Lebanon 49 · Saudi Arabia 46 · Palestine 41
The bigger picture
All countries on the map · Middle East · World Tension Index · active conflicts · escalation watchlist
Turkey and world tension: the long view
evergreen · World Tension Meter teamNATO’s eastern anchor and a power of its own. Turkey controls the Bosphorus, the only sea route out of the Black Sea, and keeps the alliance’s second-largest army. It talks to Moscow and Kyiv at the same time, which makes it a mediator and a wild card.
Four borders, four conflicts. Syria, Iraq, the Caucasus and the Aegean all touch Turkish interests. Kurdish militancy links its domestic security to two neighbours.
A currency the markets watch. The lira’s swings show up in our currency index; Turkey is one of the few countries where a central-bank decision is a tension headline.
What our engine watches in Turkey
- Bosphorus and Black Sea grain-corridor traffic
- Operations in Syria and Iraq
- Lira moves and inflation
Indexes to follow: Currency Stress · Shipping Stress · Food Security.