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Turkey to hand over Bashiqa military base to Iraq

Rank
Ran
19h
Updated
4d ago
Closed
Outlets
11
Regions
1
Countries
6
Languages
4

+0

Shafaq News Iraq · English 1 Oct, 09:10 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in العربية (3) · فارسی (3) · Türkçe (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 11 after 19 hours.

5 10 15
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: IRNA (fa), 1 Oct, 08:47 UTC.
  2. Second country: Iraq, with Shafaq News.
  3. Second region: International, with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
  4. Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 1 Oct, 10:09 UTC.
  5. Last article: 11 outlets.

Where it travelled

20 of 20 hours

Earlier Later

The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

91%

  • Middle East 10 outlets · 5 countries · 91%
  • International 1 outlet · 9%

First movers

  1. IRNA (fa) 1 Oct, 08:47 UTC
  2. Shafaq News +23m
  3. Khabar Online +1h 22m
  4. SANA +1h 25m
  5. Daily Sabah +1h 58m

Last to join

  1. Hürriyet 2 Oct, 04:00 UTC
  2. Al Sharq 1 Oct, 19:46 UTC
  3. Anadolu Agency 1 Oct, 13:49 UTC
  4. Kurdistan24 1 Oct, 12:50 UTC
  5. Shargh 1 Oct, 12:00 UTC

The figures

Coverage
11 outlets in 6 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 11 outlets, 4 state-owned, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Middle East 5: Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Syria, Turkey. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, English, Persian, Turkish.
Timeline
Earliest article IRNA (fa), 1 Oct 2026, 08:47 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 08:50 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 04:00 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Middle East, Iraq. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
1 Oct 2026 183 6.58 10 6 10 6 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 08:50 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 04:00 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 11 outlets

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Middle East 10 outlets

  • Hürriyet Turkey 2 Oct, 04:00 UTC
    MSB: Başika Irak’a teslim edilecek
  • Al Sharq Qatar 1 Oct, 19:46 UTC
    وزارة الدفاع التركية تعلن تسليم قاعدة بعشيقة العسكرية إلى السلطات العراقية تدريجياً
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 1 Oct, 13:49 UTC
    Türkiye to gradually hand over Bashiqa-Zilkan base to Iraq: Defense Ministry
  • Kurdistan24 Iraq 1 Oct, 12:50 UTC
    Türkiye to Hand Over Zilkan Base to Iraq in Phased Process
  • Shargh Iran 1 Oct, 12:00 UTC
    ترکیه از پایگاه نظامی در عراق خارج می‌شود
  • Daily Sabah Turkey 1 Oct, 10:45 UTC
    Türkiye vows continued co-op with Iraq after troop withdrawal
  • SANA Syria 1 Oct, 10:12 UTC
    تركيا تسلّم قاعدة بعشيقة للعراق تدريجياً
  • Khabar Online Iran 1 Oct, 10:09 UTC
    ترکیه: پایگاه «بعشیقه» را بر اساس توافق به عراق تحویل می‌دهیم
  • Shafaq News Iraq 1 Oct, 09:10 UTC
    Turkiye to hand over Bashiqa-Zilkan base to Iraq
  • IRNA (fa) Iran 1 Oct, 08:47 UTC
    ترکیه از تحویل پایگاه بعشیقه ـ زلیکان به عراق خبر داد

International 1 outlet

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International 1 Oct, 10:45 UTC
    تركيا تسلّم قاعدة بعشيقة تدريجياً إلى الحكومة العراقية
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