Digital Safety & Youth: Türkiye is leaning toward targeted protections for children online, including platform-specific restrictions and planned age-based safeguards like age verification and parental controls, with Roblox cited as a key precedent. Disaster Risk Tech: ITU and AFAD are rolling out an AI-driven geohazard monitoring and risk analytics platform to track geological threats to critical infrastructure nationwide. Wildfire & Smoke Diplomacy: A new look at cross-border wildfire response argues cooperation is growing, but recovery, health impacts, and rebuilding still lag behind emergency firefighting. Maritime Security in the Black Sea: Lloyd’s List reports heavy attacks on merchant shipping in July, with 23 seafarers killed—raising fears that civilian and military risks are blending. Maritime Innovation: Teknofest’s “Blue Homeland” edition will showcase Turkish naval and underwater technologies at Gölcük, with competitions and live demonstrations. Conservation Spotlight: Kazakhstan has released Amur tigers after 70 years, aiming to restore a historic range and manage human-tiger coexistence. Local Environment/Heritage: Underwater documentation work after dam water levels dropped has revealed a remarkably intact submerged settlement near Diyarbakır. Air Quality Research: A study reports Istanbul’s air pollution has fallen over the past decade.