Category: Politics
Turkish human rights activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala underlined in a letter sent from prison that he has spent 15 months in pretrial detention and still has not been indicted. Kavala said in the letter ...
Turkey is showing no sign it will reverse its policy of holding U.S. citizens and foreign service nationals in order to extract concessions from Washington, and a comprehensive strategy is required to oppose this practice, ...
By Kyle Orton U.S. President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Syria came with many visible costs . The benefits the anti-Islamic State (ISIS) campaign has delivered to Syrian President Bashar Assad, Iran, and ...
By Edward G. Stafford The depiction of Turkey as a supporter of embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on a map serving as a backdrop to a presentation by U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton has some worried ...
By Abdullah Bozkurt A plot to kill a critical Turkish journalist living in Denmark by a clandestine group tied to the Turkish government exposes the sheer hypocrisy of the autocratic regime of president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ...
ISTANBUL — A senior U.S. official says Washington hopes Turkey will choose the Patriot air defence system over a Russian system that has raised NATO concerns. Turkey has pledged to buy the Russian S-400 missile ...
By Uzay Bulut Erdogan repeatedly has said that his government aims to raise “devout generations” in Turkey. To this end, he has Islamized Turkey’s education system. Now he is working on exporting Islamized curricula to ...
At the SEUS summit, Cyprus’ President Nicos Anastasiades (r) called on Turkey to meet its obligations towards Cyprus [Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters] Nicosia, Cyprus – President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades has called on Turkey to meet its ...
When Turkey launched a military offensive in northern Syria last January and called it Operation Olive Branch, many dismissed the name as part of a propaganda campaign. Turkey said it wanted to rid the region ...
By Cengiz Aktar “Last May, by boycotting the Venezuelan elections, the main opposition was able to keep participation rates below 46 percent. Although Nicolás Maduro (a buddy of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan) was able ...