Tag: Rule of Law
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Photographer: ADEM ALTAN/AFP Bosses’ club Tusiad, top businessman Tuncay Ozilhan targeted Comments follow Ozilhan’s criticism on economy and governance The tension between Turkey’s top businesses and its president spiked ...
Photo by Good Free Photos (Unsplash) Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has released a report that claims a quarter of the country’s young population is interested in settling in other countries, the T24 ...
Living in exile in Germany, journalist Can Dundar has been highly critical of the clampdown on the media under Erdogan. In a DW exclusive, he wrote about the collapse of the independent press in Turkey. ...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s latest political battle is about much more than keeping one major city under his party’s control. Hours after Turkey’s top election watchdog accepted the ruling AK Party’s appeal to redo Istanbul’s ...
The EU and leading member states have sharply criticised a decision in Turkey to re-run Istanbul’s mayoral election, after a shock opposition win. An EU spokesperson called on Turkey’s electoral body to explain the controversial ...
ISTANBUL – “Our country is finally blessed with a period of four-and-a-half years without electoral disputes,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan trumpeted some two weeks ago, addressing a crowd of public servants in Ankara. “It ...
Turkey’s Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has announced that a total of 20,474 people in Turkey have been investigated due to their messages on social media, the Gazete Duvar news website reported on Friday. The minister’s ...
ANKARA: Turkey’s highest court rejected appeals on Friday from two prominent journalists jailed over links to the failed coup in 2016, state media reported. The Constitutional Court said the rights of Nazli Ilicak, 74, and ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan The number of people convicted of insulting the president increased 13 times in the first three years of the presidency of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan compared to the previous presidential term, ...
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People protesting the order to rerun the mayoral election in Istanbul, Turkey. Credit Erdem Sahin/EPA, via Shutterstock His decision to rerun a municipal election his party lost in Istanbul shows a growing weakness. In his steady, 17-year ...