about

I’m Omer Taha Turkmen, a high school student in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. I write about how geopolitics, economics, and faith fit together — not because I have figured them out, but because I am trying to.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life in Turkey. Moving to the United States at fourteen was the kind of change that makes you see everything twice: once from where you came from, and once from where you are now. That double view is where most of my questions come from.

My interest in this world started earlier than I can fully explain. In fifth grade, I sat through a Model UN conference in Antalya, and something about it stuck. I kept reading history on my own long after any assignment asked me to. When my father pointed me toward International Relations, the pieces I had been collecting finally had a name.

Most of what I write lives at the intersection of politics, religion, and economics: how belief shapes power, how a single economic decision quietly reaches ordinary people, and how a country’s choices can shape lives for decades. As a Muslim, my faith is the ground I stand on. It keeps me from treating statecraft as only a contest of power and reminds me to ask where justice and human dignity belong in the equation.

I’m still a student, and these essays are me working things out in public. I will get some of it wrong. But if you care about international law, politics, or simply making sense of a world that will not sit still, I’m glad you are here.

omerwrites— Ömer Taha Türkmen