Middle East
US Says 10,000s Arrested Since Turkey Coup With Little Clarity on Evidence
In the United States, it was State Department’s palpable indifference to its own report over the dismal state of human rights...
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German-Turkish Spat A Windfall For Erdogan’s Yes Campaign
While Turks enjoy freedoms and civil liberties in Germany to the fullest extent, they support a leader back at home...
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Erdogan: Germany Must Be Tried For Abetting Terrorism
Turkish president has alleged that arrested reporter Deniz Yucel is a PKK representative and a German spy, claiming that Germany...
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Civil-Military Relations on Edge After Report Over Anxiety In Army
The failed coup attempt led to a strong conviction among many Turks that the military is no longer a threat,...
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Mixed Feelings As Turkey Marks 20th Anniversary of Military Coup
In 1933, Adolf Hitler said his Reich would last for 1,000 years. In 1945, his country was in ruins. In...
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Is Turkey Safe For Foreign Journalists?
It was cold Istanbul night on Feb. 7, 2014, when I left the safe location where I was hiding for...
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Spying On Erdogan’s Critics In Germany Dates Back to 2014, Docs Show
Espionage activities by imams for Turkey in Germany date back as far as 2014, according to documents obtained by The...
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Kurdish Lawmaker Who Lost 12 Relatives In Turkish Airstrike Is Missing
5 years ago, a man on the Turkish-Iraqi border lost 12 of his relatives and family members in a Turkish...
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Fearful of Another Coup, Erdogan Supporters Build Informal Militia
The Turkish president said few days after the failed military coup attempt that he learned about the putsch from his...
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Turkish General Says Superiors Betrayed During Coup Night
25 Turkish officers landed in Marmaris on July 15, 2016, Turkey's Palm Beach, where leaders take a break from their...
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Campaign That Ended Pinochet’s Rule Inspires Turkey’s Naysayers
It is not an easy task to campaign against a change that proponents argue will spawn a better era. In...
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Merkel Avoids Asking Turkey To Release Detained German Reporter
The German chancellor did not ask Turkey to release a German reporter detained in Turkey, hoping to avoid irking Ankara...
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European Rights Defender Urges Turkey To Restore Freedom of Expression
Europe’s top human rights agency has called on Turkey to restore freedom of expression and thought, end crackdown on media...
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Support For Erdogan In Referendum Splits Turkey’s Nationalists
Turkish society is bitterly divided. Polarization cleavage is so deep that it is evident in every walks of life in...
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For Turkish FM, There Is No Jailed Journalist in Turkey
The number of imprisoned journalists in Turkey has divided media watchdogs who track the government's crackdown on media. Counts by...
Read moreErdogan Makes Case For Strong, One-Man Rule
There is no shortage of colorful metaphors Turkish president would use to promote his presidential agenda. He even cited Hitler's...
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Turkish Police Walk Over Robes, Drag Professors on Ground
Cebeci Üniversitesi önünde akademisyenler ve öğrencileri polis işkenceyle gözaltına aldı pic.twitter.com/BTiZX5Nstf — hayritunc (@hayriituncc) February 10, 2017 A picture...
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Professor: Turkey Purged My Father in 1948, Me in 1980 and My Assistant Today
"In 1948, they dismissed my father from university, me in 1980 and purged my assistant today," a leading...
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In Largest Anti-ISIS Raids, Turkey Detains Hundreds of Supporters
Turkish public is no stranger to the news of anti-ISIS operations, but Sunday's operations were unprecedented in Turkey's fight against...
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