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[OPINION] Erdoğan made Turkey’s Kurdish problem worse

Abdullah Bozkurt Having deliberately undermined two initiatives to address Turkey’s longstanding Kurdish problem during its 16 years of rule, the government of President Recep Tayyip...

[OPINION] US Treasury targets Erdoğan’s links to Iran’s IRGC

Abdullah Bozkurt The United States Treasury has named an Iran-sanction-busting Turkish citizen and several companies in Istanbul as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) under an...

[OPINION] What to expect from Turkey’s elections

Abdullah Bozkurt In the upcoming June 24 presidential and parliamentary snap elections, I have little hope that the opposition will score a win in an...

[OPINION] The Regime

Mehmet Efe Çaman The question of whether Turkey can still be considered a democracy is no longer being asked since there is an extensive consensus...

[OPINION] Erdoğan and his cronies seize the wealth of critics in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt The unlawful seizure of assets of companies worth tens of billions of dollars and the confiscation of the wealth of critics of President...

[OPINION] Iranian intelligence drives a wedge between Turkey and NATO

Abdullah Bozkurt Tapping in on the growing outcry in Turkish public opinion about the US embassy move to Jerusalem, Iranian proxy groups operating in Turkey...

[OPINION] Turkey’s intelligence agency tapped journalist as asset in CNN Turkish affiliate

OPINION | ABDULLAH BOZKURT The use of Turkish journalists as assets and media outlets as cover has long been a policy of Turkey’s National Intelligence...

[OPINION] Quo vadis, Turkey?

OPINION | MEHMET EFE ÇAMAN It is hard for me to believe what is going on in Turkey nowadays. Turkey used to be a country...

Turkey’s troubles with the US are poisoning trade ties

Abdullah Bozkurt As expected, Turkey’s troubling disengagement from political and security cooperation with the United States due to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s anti-Western, Islamist policies...

The EU is all talk when it comes to Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government effectively abandoned European Union accession talks when its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, concluded that he...

Turkey’s Erdoğan trades in influence at the Council of Europe

Abdullah Bozkurt It was certainly not surprising to see that Turkey, led by the corrupt government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was mentioned in a...

Turkey’s Erdoğan found his mirror image in Venezuela’s Maduro

by Abdullah Bozkurt Attempts to forge robust ties with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela by the Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reinforce the view...

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