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Featured TURKPOL perspective for the current publication cycle—signed commentary, not an official communiqué unless expressly adopted as policy.

7 September 2026

How to read a çini tile: motifs, colours, and the Polish thread

Ottoman tile has a grammar: two families of motif, a palette set by what survives a single firing, and a Polish chapter of tents, carpets and misattributions. A guide to reading one — and to where to go and see them.

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Illustration: a square İznik-style tile lying on a dark wooden table, painted with red tulips, blue rosettes and turquoise saz leaves.

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From the archive

Earlier Perspectives posts remain on record for members, partners, and researchers following Polish–Turkish institutional dialogue.

Illustration: layered parchment, a brass seal press and crimson sealing wax on a dark table.

24 August 2026

Six centuries of Polish–Turkish diplomacy, and why 1414 still matters

Poland and Türkiye have exchanged envoys since 1414 — longer than most European pairings. A short history of a relationship built without a shared border, from the first embassy to the Ottoman court to two seats in the same alliance.

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Painted illustration of a formal reception hall, an empty chair in the foreground and indistinct seated figures beyond.

10 August 2026

“The envoy from Lehistan has not yet arrived”: a sentence, and what stands behind it

The best-loved story in Polish–Turkish relations is that the Ottoman court kept calling for a Polish ambassador for 123 years after Poland was partitioned. The sentence is hard to document. What it stands for is not.

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A village lane of low wooden houses with steep pitched roofs, standing among dense forest on an overcast morning.

27 July 2026

Polonezköy: the Polish village on Istanbul's doorstep

In 1842 Polish exiles founded a village on the Asian side of Istanbul. Its Turkish name means, simply, “the Polish village”. Nearly two centuries later it is still there — and still Polish enough to matter.

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Painted landscape of a field at dawn after an army has passed: trampled grass, tent stakes, mist in the hollows.

13 July 2026

Vienna 1683: one battle, two national memories

In Poland it is the relief of Vienna and a national high point. In Türkiye it is the Vienna siege and a turning point. Same date, same field, two entirely coherent memories — and a relationship that survived both.

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A container terminal at blue hour: stacked shipping containers, gantry cranes in silhouette, wet concrete.

29 June 2026

Trade, investment and the modern Polish–Turkish economy

The relationship's centre of gravity has moved from diplomacy to commerce. What actually governs Polish–Turkish trade is a customs union signed in 1995 — and a three-hour flight.

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A Central European street in autumn — stone tenements, tram wires overhead, a warmly lit corner grocery.

15 June 2026

Turks in Poland: work, study and settling in

The Turkish community in Poland is small, young, concentrated in a few cities and growing. Who it is made up of, where it lives, and what it needs from an association.

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A Mediterranean coastal town in late-afternoon light, whitewashed and ochre houses stepping down a hillside towards the sea.

1 June 2026

Poles in Türkiye: from Adampol to Antalya

Four waves of Polish presence in Türkiye, nearly two centuries apart in character: exiles, officers in Ottoman service, engineers of the young Republic, and today's residents on the Mediterranean coast.

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Overhead still life on a woven kilim: a brass coffee pot, two glasses of dark tea, a bowl of yoghurt and a cloth bag of coffee beans.

18 May 2026

Words that travelled: Turkish in Polish, Polish in Turkish

Polish borrowed a surprising amount of everyday vocabulary from Turkish — coffee, carpet, yoghurt, bag. Turkish borrowed one word back that mattered more than all of them: the name of Poland itself.

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An empty road running to a flat horizon under a pale northern sky, birch woods to one side and an unmarked boundary post at the roadside.

4 May 2026

Two allies: Poland and Türkiye in European security

Türkiye joined NATO in 1952, Poland in 1999. They anchor opposite flanks of the same alliance, and are bound by the same Article 5 — which makes their relationship a security question, not only a cultural one.

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A table set for a guest: dark bread, a dish of salt and tulip glasses of tea on saucers, on a linen cloth.

20 April 2026

Tea, bread and hospitality: the habits Poland and Türkiye share

Two countries with no shared border, no shared language family and different religions turn out to run on remarkably similar domestic rules. A guide to what a Turkish guest recognises in a Polish home, and the reverse.

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Adam Mickiewicz Museum in Istanbul — the historic house where the Polish national poet lived and died.

26 November 2025

Adam Mickiewicz in Istanbul: a poet's house, a shared memory

The Istanbul home where Poland's national poet lived and died — today a museum, and one of the most tangible bridges of Polish–Türkiye cultural memory.

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5 February 2025

Perspective: bilateral dialogue in practice

Editorial notes on how institutions, professionals, and civic actors sustain practical cooperation between Poland and Türkiye.

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