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[OPINION] Council of Europe faces a daring challenge from Turkey

  by Abdullah Bozkurt The Council of Europe (CoE), Europe’s largest intergovernmental body advocating democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights, is facing a historic...

[OPINION] Will Turkey host or generate refugees in the future?

Okan Bulut Since the domestic conflict erupted in Syria in 2011, more than 2.5 million Syrians have found refuge in Turkey. Throughout the last five...

[OPINION] ErdoÄŸan terrorizing Turkey to become caliph

By Abdullah Bozkurt In his latest push to secure an imperial presidency that will lead to a self-declared caliphate, Turkey’s top Islamist ruler, Recep Tayyip...

[OPINION] Turkey named and shamed by Open Government Partnership

Abdullah Bozkurt Who could have known that Turkey, touted as a secular and democratic Muslim nation with a vibrant civil society in 2011, when the...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s intelligence agency involved in surge of terror

By Abdullah Bozkurt If the Turkish president had not thwarted the undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T), Hakan Fidan, his close confidant, from responding...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s courts whitewash Iran’s agents in Turkey

By Abdullah Bozkurt Turkey’s Constitutional Court, having already been transformed into his majesty’s court after the Islamist president orchestrated the arrest of two top judges...

[OPINION] How ErdoÄŸan empowered jihadists from China

Abdullah Bozkurt The Turkish Islamist ruler’s secret policy of facilitating the movement of jihadists from the Uyghurs of Chinese nationality into Syria since 2011 to...

[OPINION] Twists in ISIL murder case of 12 Germans in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt The investigation, indictment and trial of suspects who are charged in the suicide bombing of 12 German tourists at a historic site in...

[OPINION] Turkey’s crackdown on lawyers takes a toll

by Abdullah Bozkurt The unprecedented crackdown on lawyers who defend critics, dissidents and opponents of the authoritarian regime of Turkey’s strongman, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, paint...

[OPINION] ErdoÄŸan nurtures jihadist mindset in Turkey’s police

by Abdullah Bozkurt As part of a nurturing campaign to raise an ideologically committed, new generation of religious zealots by Turkey’s Islamist rulers led by...

[OPINION] Russian ambassador’s murderer linked to Erdoğan family

Abdullah Bozkurt More details have emerged on the secretive past of the killer of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, shedding further light on how he...

[OPINION] As a journalist, I refuse to be intimidated

By Abdullah Bozkurt The autocratic regime in Turkey of President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan has not only broken an all-time world record in the number of...

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