Speaking in a group meeting of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the party’s co-chair Mithat Sancar commented on the “Alevi djemevi and culture directorate” that Turkish President Recep Tayyp Erdogan recently said would be established. ...
A significant religious minority in Turkey, the Alevis, have become increasingly subject to President Erdogan’s populist ire, as they find themselves on a collision course with the Islamification and ‘Turkification’ of Turkey. When I visited ...
ISTANBUL — Six days after he went missing, a Turkish worker returned to his family Tuesday morning claiming he had been abducted and tortured by unidentified state agents in a forced disappearance. Speaking with a bruise under ...