Pervasive distrust defines Turkey’s changing media landscape: report

A report released on June 10 by the Center for American Progress (CAP), an independent nonpartisan policy institute based in Washington, D.C., maps out...

COMMENTARY — US: once burned, twice shy about Turkey’s Erdoğan

By Abdullah Bozkurt The growing US pressure on the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is perhaps the only avenue left to reattach Turkey, a...

Protests for missing educator İnandı continue in European cities

Human rights activists are gathering in European cities to protest Ankara’s alleged sanctioning of enforced disappearances and to stand in solidarity with educator Orhan...

Turkish opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu says US indictment of former minister tip of iceberg

After an arrest warrant was ordered in the US for a disgraced former Turkish minister, the head of the main opposition party in Turkey...

Turkish FM bashes Kazakh journalist for question over abduction scandal in Switzerland

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Friday refused to answer two questions from a Kazakh journalist during a joint press conference in Astana, likening...

PEN Int’l calls on Turkey to drop charges against sociologist in exile

PEN International has said Turkish authorities should drop all charges against prominent sociologist and PEN Turkey member Pınar Selek over a deadly 1998 explosion...

JWF report reveals Gülen affiliated science schools, seized by Turkish gov’t, turned into hub...

A report, released by the Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) on March 2017 on the fate and state of private educational institutions and educators...

Germany says Turkey dropped terror link charge against German firms

Germany said Turkey had informed it on Monday that it had dropped accusations of “terrorism” funding against nearly 700 German companies amid an escalating...

Turkish president’s spokesman slams Newsweek for article targeting Erdoğan

İbrahim Kalın, the spokesperson for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has slammed a Newsweek article harshly criticising Erdoğan, calling it “one of the worst pieces...

Sweden proposes tougher anti-terror laws in response to Turkey’s demands

Sweden’s government on Thursday proposed new legislation to ban activities linked to extremist groups, in a move to toughen anti-terror laws, a key demand...
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