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[OPINION] The last nail in the coffin of Turkish democracy

By Okan Turna On July 15, 2016 Turkey witnessed an unprecedented coup attempt by a faction within its armed forces. While the attempt was still...

[OPINION] Turkey’s Erdoğan eyes gold, oil prospects in Somalia

By Abdullah Bozkurt Thanks to the eye-opening exposé on the leaked personal emails of Turkish Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, we now know that Turkey’s corrupt...

[OPINION] Time to play hardball with Turkey’s Erdoğan

Abdullah Bozkurt An engagement with Turkey as long as its autocratic president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan remains in full control of all the levers of power...

[OPINION] Only educational efforts of groups such as Hizmet can eradicate extremism

By Dr. Ismail Mesut Sezgin In order to please President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan before his visit to Pakistan, the Pakistani government ordered more than 100...

[OPINION] How Erdoğan family controls finance and economy in Turkey (2)

By Abdullah Bozkurt The keystone in the massive dragnet set up by the corrupt president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to rob the nation’s wealth is Prime...

[OPINION] Erdoğan family controls finance and economy in Turkey (1)

By Abdullah Bozkurt The economic and financial policy decisions in Turkey are made by the corrupt multi-billionaire President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his family members,...

[OPINION] Turkey’s Erdoğan goes after the pope and the Vatican

By Abdullah Bozkurt The ongoing tension between Turkey and the Vatican at the political level that has been simmering beneath the surface for some time...

[OPINION] Erdoğan props up his enlisted ally Hizbullah in Turkey

By Abdullah Bozkurt A crackdown on the legitimate Kurdish political movement in Turkey by its autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan while provoking militant faction the...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s spies plan abductions, murders of critics abroad

By Abdullah Bozkurt Given the track record of notorious Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), which contracted out the murder of three Kurdish women in the...

[OPINION] Turkey’s revolving door policy for ISIL suspects

By Abdullah Bozkurt Although the Turkish government’s crackdown on the network of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, IS or Da’esh) in...

[OPINION] Turkish Prisons Are Filled With Professors — Like My Father

By Merve Reyhan Kayikci* A Turkish professor who was my father’s colleague and frequently visited our house is now incapable of counting right amount of...

Syria, Iraq cross-border motion approved by Parliament

A motion extending the mandate of the Turkish Armed Forces to conduct military operations in Iraq and Syria for another year was approved by...

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