In just one week, President Erdogan met with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy, NATO’s chief Mark Rutte, and oversaw a flurry of backroom diplomacy. In Istanbul, Russian, Ukrainian, and American delegations gathered for closed-door talks. Meanwhile, in southern Türkiye, NATO foreign ministers met. And on the sidelines, Turkish, Syrian, and US envoys quietly revived dialogue tied to recent talks between President Trump and Syria’s Al-Sharaa in Riyadh.