Turkey Tension Score
indexed · 49 days on fileLive 0–100 tension reading for Turkey, built by our own engine from 19,188 world headlines in the last 30 days. Refreshed every 10 minutes; a fresh headline count twice a day.
Where Turkey stands
#12 of 197 countries today, #8 of 16 in Middle East (region score 78). Tension is steady this week.
Same 0–100 scale and zones as the World Tension Index.
Turkey news pulse
60 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- 233 headlines in 30 days — 1.21% of everything the engine read, up sharply on the previous 30 days (133).
- 35% of those were violent (attacks, strikes, casualties) and 35% scored as high-tension stories.
- Conflicts on the roster: Kurdish Nationalist Conflicts (escalating).
- Region: Middle East reads 78 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | 46.0 | Stable | 34 | 9 | 5 |
| October 2026 | 38.1 | Calm | 236 | 84 | 31 |
| September 2026 | 34.8 | Calm | 96 | 34 | 13 |
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?
Easing: down 1 points in 7 days.
How does Turkey compare with the rest of Middle East?
Below its region: Turkey reads 45 against 78 for Middle East, ranking #8 of 16 there.
Keep exploring
Same region
Yemen 69 · Iran 67 · Israel 67 · Palestine 55 · Saudi Arabia 55 · Syria 48
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.