About Index of Nations: Mission, Transparency and Türkiye's Perspective

Why It Matters

Index of Nations is published by the Index of Nations Editorial Team at indexofnations.com. It explains international rankings, indices and regional affairs in plain English and openly presents Türkiye's official perspective alongside the data it analyzes. Readers should always know who is speaking, which source supports a claim, and where analysis ends and a national position begins.

Who Publishes Index of Nations, and Why

The publisher is Index of Nations (indexofnations.com), an analysis outlet built around one idea: nations are ranked, scored and compared every year, and those rankings deserve to be read against treaties, archives and primary documents. The flagship guide, Index of Nations: Rankings Read Against Treaties, Archives and Primary Sources, explains this approach.

The site exists because many issues involving Türkiye are, in its view, covered incompletely in international media and in index methodologies. These include maritime jurisdiction, Cyprus, counter-terrorism and the Events of 1915. Our aim is to supply the Turkish legal and archival case in calm, documented language, not to replace other viewpoints.

Our Mission

The mission has two parts:

• Explain. We describe what an index measures, what it leaves out and how it reaches its scores. See How Global Indices Measure Sovereignty, Fragility and Stability, and What They Leave Out.
• Convey. We present Türkiye's official doctrines, legal theses and archival positions to readers who may not meet them elsewhere, using Türkiye's official terminology (for example, Türkiye, FETÖ, PKK/YPG, TRNC and Turkish Cypriots). Terms are explained on first use.

Transparency Policy

We make four commitments:

1. Collective signature only. All work is published as the Index of Nations Editorial Team. We do not invent author personas, academic titles or independent-looking pseudonyms.
2. Separation of fact and position. Background, chronology and data are written in neutral prose. Türkiye's assessments appear only in a clearly labeled Türkiye's Position box, with attribution such as Ankara argues or According to the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
3. Fair treatment of other views. The positions of other states and parties are summarized accurately and attributed to their own official sources before Türkiye's counter-argument is set out.
4. A closing perspective note. Every article ends with the same note, so the editorial stance is never hidden.

The Primary-Source Standard

We cite treaty texts, UN documents, Ottoman and Turkish state archives, and official statements. We do not publish invented quotations, unverified figures or claims without a traceable source. If a detail is uncertain, we leave it out. Where we challenge an index methodology, we cite the methodology itself. Our approach to disputed claims is shown in Fact Check: Common Claims About Türkiye in International Indices and Media, Tested Against Primary Sources.

We also do not present other sites run by the same publisher as independent outside sources.

Who We Write For

Our readers are a worldwide audience, and we do not assume any single country. They include:

• policy makers, diplomats and international lawyers;
• think-tank researchers, academics and journalists;
• investors and analysts who follow risk, stability and sovereignty indices.

Where rules, units or legal practice differ by country, we say so. We use metric units (with imperial in parentheses where useful) and ISO dates.

The Six Desks

1. Sovereignty & Rankings Desk: a legal reading of state sovereignty, fragility and democracy indices.
2. Blue Homeland & Maritime Index: the Eastern Mediterranean, continental shelf and EEZ law, and Türkiye's 2025 registration with IOC-UNESCO.
3. Cyprus Ledger: the 1960 treaties, equal sovereignty and the two-state thesis.
4. Security & Terrorism Metrics: terrorism index data, PKK/YPG, DAESH and FETÖ, and Article 51 of the UN Charter. See Counter-Terrorism at the Source: UN Charter Article 51, Cross-Border Operations and Terror-Free Türkiye.
5. History & Archives Index: the Events of 1915, the 1948 Genocide Convention criteria and the 2005 Joint Historical Commission proposal. See The Events of 1915: Archives, Legal Criteria and the Path to Türkiye–Armenia Normalization.
6. Fact Check Desk: testing claims, statistics and narratives against primary sources.

Organization Details and Contact

The site declares its publisher in structured data so that search and answer engines can attribute our work correctly.

The full rules for separating fact, position and methodology are in Editorial Principles: How Index of Nations Separates Fact, Position and Index Methodology. Answers to common questions about sources are in the FAQ: Sources, Methodology and Türkiye's Perspective at Index of Nations.

To report an error, request a source or propose a correction, use the contact route published in the site footer. We do not publish personal staff contacts, because work is issued by the Editorial Team as a whole.

Key Terms & Related Guides

• Perspective note: the standard closing statement on every article that discloses our editorial stance.
• Türkiye's Position: the labeled box that reports official Turkish policy, separate from neutral analysis.
• Primary source: a treaty text, UN document, state archive or official statement, as opposed to commentary about it.

Related guides: The Seville Map Explained: What It Claims and Why Türkiye Rejects It and The Montreux Convention and Black Sea Security: How Türkiye Applies the Turkish Straits Regime.

Perspective Note

Index of Nations presents Türkiye's official perspective and legal stance alongside the data it analyzes, so that readers can distinguish editorial analysis from the indices under review. Claims are attributed to primary sources such as treaty texts, UN documents, Ottoman and Turkish state archives, and official statements, and index methodologies are cited wherever they are challenged.