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[OPINION] Radical Islamists tapped to be judges and prosecutors in Turkey

  Abdullah Bozkurt A key pro-government association rooted in religious fanaticism and a jihadist mindset has been serving as a springboard for staffing Turkey’s judiciary as...

[OPINION] Carl Bildt’s love affair with Turkey’s dictator

Abdullah Bozkurt The fallout from the damaging revelations made by former national security adviser Michael Flynn as part of an investigation by Special Counsel Robert...

[OPINION] Exposing generals in Erdoğan’s troll army

Abdullah Bozkurt For several years now senior Turkish government officials clustered around President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have been running an army of social media trolls...

[OPINION] Turkey blackmails Council of Europe, pursues ‘resort diplomacy’ to manipulate votes

Abdullah Bozkurt The Turkish government has ways and means of wooing members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE) as well as...

[OPINION] Erdogan saved IRGC drug traffickers, human smugglers in Turkey

by Abdullah Bozkurt The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has aided and abetted a drug trafficking and human smuggling network run in Turkey...

JP Morgan and Kardemir embroiled in Iran sanctions-busting scandal at Halkbank

by Abdullah Bozkurt A confidential probe into the clandestine activities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and its affiliates by Turkish prosecutors and police...

[OPINION] US-indicted Turkish banker’s ties to Iran’s IRGC ensnare Greece

by Abdullah Bozkurt Levent Balkan, a former executive of Turkey’s state lender Halkbank, has been the key operative in assembling a team and setting up...

[OPINION] Turkey’s deputy PM and gov’t spokesman Bekir Bozdağ is an al-Qaeda suspect

by Abdullah Bozkurt When, not if, one day Turkey’s Islamist rulers stand trial for empowering armed jihadists who have wreaked havoc in Syria and other...

[OPINION] Turkish probe revealed Erdoğan sent arms to jihadists in Syria

by Abdullah Bozkurt The cover-up in the transfer of heavy arms to terror organizations in Syria by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was...

[OPINION] Turkish intelligence agency MİT leased busses to transport jihadist to Syria

Abdullah Bozkurt Confidential documents that were included in the case file of a criminal investigation reveal how Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) rented busses to...

[OPINION] Arab and Jewish interests exposed to Iranian attacks in Turkey

by Abdullah Bozkurt Arab, Israeli, and Jewish interests in Turkey are exposed to plots and attacks as the Turkish government no longer believes that the...

[OPINION] Turkish charity IHH works with Turkish intelligence MIT to empower jihadists

Abdullah Bozkurt A new cache of confidential documents from a classified investigation in Turkey shows that controversial charity group the Foundation for Human Rights and...

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