President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s harsh rhetoric against his opponents is widely known at home and abroad. Yet a dramatic incident at the Turkish parliament last week provided insight into the fates of those who dare ...
If wars were won by fiery public speeches and threats alone, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would have given historical conquerors such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan and Napoleon Bonaparte a ...
“Turkey’s frantic attempts to control the narrative about its intelligence activities by detaining and harassing journalists violate the public’s right to be informed and must stop… Accusing journalists of revealing information that has already been ...
Ali Babacan said he and his co-founders of Deva party felt a ‘moral responsibility’ to take action © AFP via Getty Images Ali Babacan criticises centralised decision making as he launches new party challenging Erdogan ...
Turkey was once on course to join the EU. The desperate refugees trapped on its border reflect a broken relationship To understand Europe, we need to look more carefully at its borders. Too often, the ...
The parties at the centre of Germany’s political landscape have often exhorted citizens to distance themselves from the right-wing AfD party. And yet, Europe’s response to what is happening on its outer border in Greece ...
Chaos on Turkish-Greek border is also the result of Brussels’ failure to deliver on its side of 2016 deal. When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan opened his country’s border with Greece, causing chaos in the region as ...
“I swear to God I’m really tired,” 18-year old Syrian Ibrahim Gazel said, standing in a field of dashed dreams. He was crowded with others who’d flocked to Turkey’s northern border with Greece after Turkey’s ...
Even by Vladimir Putin’s standards for embarrassing his foreign counterparts, his treatment of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday was a spectacle — and not a good one for the Turkish president. Meeting Putin in ...
The global fallout from the coronavirus outbreak is turning up pressure on the struggling Turkish economy, which has long been stuck in a roller coaster of domestic and foreign tensions. On March 11, Ankara confirmed ...