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[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...

[ANALYSIS] Can Erdoğan lose?

The question regarding Turkey’s snap elections on June 24 is not which candidate or party will win. That is, the Turkish people will learn...

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...

Erdoğan’s Pelican conspiracy in Turkey’s propaganda war

Abdullah Bozkurt Perhaps the most conniving and cunning arm of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s mammoth propaganda machine is a little-known clandestine group called Pelican,...

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...

Europe braces itself for Erdoğan’s new push for the Turkish diaspora

Abdullah Bozkurt Ahead of both president and parliamentary elections on June 24, 2018, Turkey’s Islamist rulers led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and their neo-nationalist...

The US State Department is still confused about Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt The US State Department appears to have not fully grasped the gravity of the situation in Turkey in the face of a troubling...

Dutch, German intelligence agencies uncover Turkish kidnapping, murder plots

by Abdullah Bozkurt The secret intelligence cabal directly controlled by the head of Turkey’s notorious National Intelligence Organization (MIT) under direct orders from the Turkish...

[OPINION] Erdoğan touts al-Qaeda-linked militant as a role model in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt Publicizing an otherwise private audience for senior jihadist figures including a prominent al-Qaeda-linked fighter in the presidential palace of Turkey’s Islamist leader Recep...

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