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[OPINION] Did Erdoğan dispatch warships to Myanmar?

Abdullah Bozkurt Turkey’s Islamist rulers have not only spread fabricated news and planted false stories in the Turkish media, which is now pretty much controlled...

[OPINION] Turkey attempted to thwart CoE media alert platform

By Abdullah Bozkurt Feeling both shamed and troubled by the number of alerts posted on the Council of Europe (CoE) Platform for the Safety of...

[OPINION] Turkey uses consular services as a weapon of persecution

Abdullah Bozkurt The pattern of increasing cases of arbitrary refusal of consular services to critics and dissidents abroad by Turkey’s embassies and consulates is yet...

[OPINION] Why Turkey is picking a fight with Greece

Abdullah Bozkurt The neo-nationalist partners of Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who played a key role in orchestrating the abortive coup of July 15...

[OPINION] Saga of Dutch journalist tells the tale of Turkey

By Abdullah Bozkurt There is no shortage of examples about how the Turkish government scapegoats innocent people for the problems it has created in an...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s hatred of Yazidis takes a toll in Turkey

By Abdullah Bozkurt The deep hostility harbored by Turkey’s Islamist rulers against non-Muslims has reached a point of blind hatred that often rears its ugly...

[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] Erdoğan 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 (MİT), 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...

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