Bulgarian president only EU head of state to attend Turkish President Erdoğan’s inauguration
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev was the only president of a European Union country to attend the inauguration on Monday of Turkish President Recep Tayyip...
US senators introduce bill demanding Turkey end ‘unjust detention of Brunson’
Six US senators introduced bipartisan legislation on Thursday to restrict loans from international financial institutions to Turkey "until the Turkish government ends the unjust...
Survey shows two-thirds of Germans against Erdoğan’s state visit
An opinion poll published on Wednesday by the Die Welt newspaper suggests that slightly less than a quarter of Germans support a planned state...
Turkish gov’t detains 3 people trying to flee persecution of Erdoğan regime to Greece
Turkish border security forces detained three people on Sunday in Edirne province over their alleged links to the Gülen movement as they were trying...
COMMENTARY — NATO simulation in Norway reveals Turkey’s Trojan horse
By Abdullah Bozkurt
A Russian-Iranian proxy group led by neo-nationalist leader Doğu Perinçek, a close ally of Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been...
COMMENTARY — Turkey’s intel agency trafficked drugs and stolen vehicles to jihadists in Syria
By Abdullah Bozkurt
A hushed-up investigation in Turkey’s capital city of Ankara in early 2014 reveals how intelligence officers on the payroll of the National...
COMMENTARY — Utah case exposes more dirt on Turkey’s Erdoğan
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Another fraud scheme that extends to the United States has implicated the corrupt Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in what is seen...
COMMENTARY — Turkey scrambled to contain fallout from Erdoğan’s jihadist friends
By Abdullah Bozkurt
It appears Turkey’s intelligence agency, which has long trafficked, armed and supported foreign fighters in the bloody Syrian civil war since 2011...
Critical Saudi journalist Khashoggi goes missing in Turkey
Friends and relatives of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington-based Saudi journalist known for being a vocal critic of the Saudi leadership, said that they lost...
After Brunson’s release, US presses Turkey on ex-NASA scientist, other detainees
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday urged Turkey to release dual Turkish-US citizen and former NASA scientist Serkan Gölge, among other detainees,...
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