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[OPINION] Turkey’s intel agency turned over a Syrian colonel to the Assad regime

Abdullah Bozkurt Hakan Fidan, the pro-Iranian Islamist who has been running Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) since May 2010, protected intelligence officers who were involved...

WHO study ranks Turkey first in obesity in Europe with 32 percent

Turkey leads Europe in obesity with 32.1 percent of its population obese, according to a study conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO). In Europe,...

[OPINION] Utah case exposes more dirt on Turkey’s Erdoğan

Abdullah Bozkurt Another fraud scheme that extends to the United States has implicated the corrupt Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in what is seen as...

Kanter in Time magazine: I was with Gülen on coup night, he was as shocked as we were

Professional basketball league (NBA) star Enes Kanter wrote an article for Time magazine saying that he was with Fethullah Gülen at his home in...

Top court rejects application demanding opening of Hagia Sophia to Muslim prayer

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected an application which claimed that failing to open the country’s historic Hagia Sophia museum to Muslim prayer violates freedom...

[OPINION] Erdoğan sends an operative as ambassador to the Netherlands

Abdullah Bozkurt The appointment of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan confidante and corrupt politician Şaban Dişli as a non-career ambassador to the Netherlands suggests the Turkish Islamist...

Turkey calls on country’s religious authority in struggle to keep prices down

As the Turkish lira continues to be hit by losses in value against foreign currencies, the government has been struggling to keep prices down,...

[OPINION] Case of airbase commander tells the tale of Erdoğan’s Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt The unlawful arrest and wrongful prosecution of an important airbase commander in Turkey’s northwestern city of Bandırma is one of many pieces of...

[OPINION] The maddening silence of the European Court of Human Rights

Ekrem Dumanlı The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is betraying its own values by turning a deaf ear to the human rights abuses in...

[OPINION] Has the Trump administration given up hope on pastor Brunson?

Asking the evangelical pastor to ‘represent’ the United States as a ‘great patriot hostage’ might not bode well for his immediate future Turkish Minute staff The...

[OPINION] US: once burned, twice shy about Turkey’s Erdoğan

Abdullah Bozkurt The growing US pressure on the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is perhaps the only avenue left to reattach Turkey, a faltering...

Purged former NATO officer comes out of the shadows for those jailed in Turkey

Former Lt. Cdr. Cafer Topkaya, a purged and jailed Turkish naval officer who was assigned to NATO prior to a failed coup in Turkey,...

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