Category: Politics
Turkish authorities are summarily pushing Afghan asylum seekers crossing into the country from Iran back to Iran, denying them the right to seek asylum, in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in ...
File photo Turkish authorities on Friday ordered the detention of 113 people due to alleged links to the Gülen movement as part of two separate investigations, Turkish Minute reported. The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office ...
Sait Güney, one of the more than 130,000 civil servants who were removed from their jobs as part of a purge carried out following a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, has not ...
Turkey will receive €3.1 billion in loans to help it meet the clean energy goals set out in the Paris climate accord, under a planned deal funded by the World Bank, France and Germany, Reuters ...
A court in the Turkish province of Van on Friday sentenced Aysel Tuğluk, the former deputy co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), to 20 months in prison for disseminating the propaganda of a ...
A refugee who has been living in İstanbul with her children for four months was beaten up and threatened by neighbors and insulted at the police station, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported, citing the ...
Steven Cook published a piece in Foreign Policy about how Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is too sick to continue his job, discussing who might be the potential replacement. This piece, published earlier this month, generated both international and domestic reactions. ...
Despite the longstanding alliance and close military partnership between Turkey and the United States, the relationship has always been troublesome. For some time now, pundits and Turkey experts have tended to speculate on “who lost ...
ecurity developments in northern Syria point to an imminent military operation by Turkey and allied Syrian National Army (SNA) factions. Tensions are skyrocketing between such forces and the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). “Near daily ...
The Blue Homeland doctrine, developed by former Turkish naval officers Cihat Yaycı and Cem Gürdeniz, includes Turkey’s maritime jurisdictions in the surrounding seas as well as the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and continental shelf. ...