Tag: Deep State: Ergenekon
Mehmet Ağar A high criminal court in Ankara has acquitted all defendants of murder in a trial involving the enforced disappearance or execution of 19 people in Turkey’s Southeast in the 1990s at the hands ...
Hundreds faced arrest and prosecution since 2007 over membership of a ‘terror’ organisation – but prosecutors recently ruled that the group may never have existed In July, Turkey saw the closure of one of the ...
Lost in the electoral struggle for Istanbul, the deeper lesson of Turkey’s local election is the rise of Turkish nationalism. It has weakened President Erdoğan, and it offers the United States new options in developing ...
In the wake of the 2016 coup attempt, torture and abusive and degrading treatment are again becoming the norm in Turkish prisons, rather than the exception, Turkish news site Diken saidon Tuesday. “Allegations of torture in ...
Erdogan faces a dilemma: surrender to US diktats or align with Russia, China and Iran As a new bipolar world order emerges pitting the United States and its Western allies against Russia and China’s growing ...
TUR 002 / 0619 / OBS 047Arbitrary arrest / Release/Judicial harassmentTurkeyJune 6, 2019The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your intervention ...
SHOCKING details of rape, waterboarding and electrocution by Turkish police in Halfeti have been heard in courtrooms as detainees were denied requests to be referred to forensics for examination. After her release late on Thursday, ...
Most observers of Turkish politics understandably are obsessed with the political power that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accumulated over the past 16 years. They focus exclusively on him and his autocratic tendency. But this fixation ...
Washington’s deadline for Turkey to abandon its plans to purchase the S-400 surface-to-air missile defense system from Russia is fast approaching, with little progress. Fiercely defending his purchase of the missile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...
A little more than three years ago, a small faction within the Turkish military attempted to overthrow the government. The coup would fizzle out by morning, after claiming more than 200 lives, but that wasn’t certain ...