Middle East
In Turkey, Road To Judicial Posts Passes Through Party Membership
Submission of Turkey's already battered judiciary into the political sway of the ruling party reached a new level, making judicial...
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Turkey Suspends 9,000 Police In Latest Purge
The Turkish government has suspended more than 9,000 police officers in the latest purge wave since abortive coup attempt last...
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Disrobed And Jailed, Turkey’s Judges Suffer In Dark
A frail man in a black tracksuit with sparse hair next to a frighteningly big V-shape surgery scar on his...
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Demanding Jobs Back, Turkey’s Purged Academics Are On Hunger Strike
Nuriye Gulmen has become a symbol of civil disobedience and peaceful resistance to political repression under the state of emergency....
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Turkey’s Witch Hunters Turn Fire Against Each Other
For years, Cem Kucuk made a career for leading a McCarthy-like witch-hunt on TVs. He won many enemies, as he...
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Erdogan Came Close Losing His Most Powerful Weapon — Polls
In Ankara's Sihhiye Square in 2007, nearly 300,000 supporters of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gathered to show support for...
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Surge In Kidnappings Of Purged Officials Recalls Dark 1990s
'White Toros' was an old vehicle specially designed for Turkish drivers by French Renault's local representative. Millions of low-income Anatolians...
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Erdogan Says ‘Obama Deceived Us’ Over Syrian Kurdish Fighters
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said former U.S. President Barack Obama deceived Turkey regarding the role of Syrian Kurdish...
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Contested Referendum Pushes Turkey Into Uncertain Future
As protesters walked past the bookshop he runs in Besiktas, a female customer asked for a book, any book, on...
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Turkey’s Electoral Authority Rejects Appeal To Cancel Referendum Result
Turkey's top electoral authority on Wednesday rejected appeals by the opposition parties to annul the referendum littered with widespread irregularities...
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Buoyed By Referendum Result, Nationalist Insurgent Mulls To Form New Party
Turkey's controversial vote on Sunday has opened palpable cracks within the nationalist bloc after referendum alliance between President Recep Tayyip...
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Turkey’s Opposition Calls For Re-Run Of Vote
Two days after Turkey's historic referendum, the opposition parties do not show up conceding to accept the result, 51.3% of...
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How Last-Minute Ruling by Electoral Board Changed Everything
A group of international monitors called the referendum an uneven contest given the unequal terms during the campaign period, the...
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Turkey Moves To Extend State of Emergency
Turkey's National Security Council (MGK) decided to extend the state of emergency in a meeting on Monday, a day after...
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Monitors Say Turkish Referendum Neither Fair Nor Free
A group of international observers who monitored Turkey's momentous constitutional vote offered a blunt assessment, saying that the referendum was...
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Erdogan Declares Victory In Widely Contested Referendum
In a historic vote on Sunday, only a slight majority of voters granted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers...
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Turks Go To Polls To Decide On Nation’s Future
In a historic vote on Sunday, more than 50 million Turks will give a verdict whether to approve President Recep...
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For Turkey’s Dismissed Public Workers, Even Schools Are Off Limits
Dr. Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu was working at a hospital in Kocaeli, northwestern Turkey, until he was suspended by the Governor’s...
Read moreErdogan Signals To Extend State of Emergency
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made little secret of his intentions to extend the state of emergency, hinting that the Turkish...
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