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[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...

[OPINION] Who invented Turkey’s State of Emergency Commission?

Ekrem Dumanlı Those who could afford a legal battle against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s post-coup crackdown knocked on the doors of the country’s Constitutional...

[OPINION] Turkey’s intel agency trafficked drugs and stolen vehicles to jihadists in Syria

Abdullah Bozkurt A hushed-up investigation in Turkey’s capital city of Ankara in early 2014 reveals how intelligence officers on the payroll of the National Intelligence...

[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 Erdoğan out-trumped Trump?

Turkish Minute staff What started out as a “bromance” between two world leaders has recently turned into an aggressive game of one-upmanship, with the autocratic...

[OPINION] Bulgaria linked to Turkey’s illegal arms shipment to jihadists in Syria

Abdullah Bozkurt An intercepted arms shipment to jihadist groups including al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan apparently involved...

[OPINION] NATO simulation in Norway reveals Turkey’s Trojan horse

Abdullah Bozkurt A Russian-Iranian proxy group led by neo-nationalist leader Doğu Perinçek, a close ally of Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been busy...

[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...

[OPINION] Lost in translation: The current crisis in US-Turkish relations boils down to a single word

‘Release’ and ‘free’ are not necessarily synonymous in Turkish Turkish Minute Staff The US administration and Congress in recent months have been upping the pressure on...

[OPINION] Turkey’s abuse of Interpol exposed

Abdullah Bozkurt The blatant abuse of Interpol mechanisms in a staggeringly high number of cases by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey...

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