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[OPINION] Erdoğan’s next and final act in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s spoiler game card wore out its usefulness when Turkey’s allies and partners bungled a series of initiatives undertaken...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s war budget signals Turkey set for a darker path

Abdullah Bozkurt The dramatic increase in the budget of the Interior Ministry, which is responsible for the main law enforcement agencies in Turkey, is yet...

[OPINION] Journalist thrown in solitary as Erdoğan’s latest scheme unfolds

  Abdullah Bozkurt Faced with hard facts and bitter truths that exposed his corrupt Islamist regime, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has always found a sanctuary...

[OPINION] Iran might have listened in on Erdoğan-Trump talks

Abdullah Bozkurt The office of the Turkish presidency has shared a photo while Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was talking on the phone with US President Donald...

[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...

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