Category: Commentary
In a ruling Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights just illuminated the utter debasement of the Turkish justice system under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The court condemned the Turkish authorities for their handling of the case ...
Turkey has been sitting on two chairs, doing geopolitical business with Russia and calling on the United States on a case-by-case basis when interests happen to converge. Now the United States is giving Turkey a ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s fourth central bank chief in less than two years will oversee his first policy decision on Thursday, after President Tayyip Erdogan rocked financial markets by firing a well-respected governor who had ...
More compelling evidence has been uncovered from trials that cast further doubt on the Turkish government’s narrative of a 2016 botched coup attempt, lending further credence to the claim that the failed putschist bid was ...
The neighbourhood teahouse is a focus of daily life across Turkey, an Ottoman tradition that has endured through the centuries. At the Red Lightning teahouse in Çorum, the enterprising owners have one foot in the past ...
It once seemed relatively uncontroversial: a 25-page document meant to reduce violence against women across Europe. But a decade later, the initiative, known as the Istanbul Convention, has unexpectedly become a proxy fight for the ...
The Kurdish problem in the Middle East cannot be put off anymore as it is fast becoming the key issue determining the fate of the region in the near future. The Kurds who live in ...
Erdogan insulted the EU long before “SofaGate” There has been widespread uproar at what was seen as misogynistic and insulting treatment meted out by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to European Commission President Ursula von ...
In October, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan drew his sword against French President Emanuel Macron, targeting, in fact, the entire European civilization as against radical Islam. “What is Macron’s problem with Islam?,” Erdoğan said. “What ...
Following the dissolution of the communist Soviet Union, the leaders of Central Asia’s newly established states of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan largely welcomed “secular” Turkey’s brotherly approach as well as the Gülen movement’s ...