Turkey goes after foreign NGOs, bars them from attending UN event
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm After having summarily and arbitrarily shut down well over a thousand nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Turkey since 2016,...
Turkey persistently fails to clear land mines in violation of UN convention
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey has for the second time asked the United Nations for an extension to clear land mines...
Turkey’s new justice minister was a suspect in illegal arms shipments to al-Qaeda
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey’s new justice minister, Bekir Bozdağ, appointed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on January 28, 2022, was...
Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly criticizes Turkey on enforced disappearances
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Europe’s largest intergovernmental body that promotes the rule...
Turkey overturned conviction of ISIS deputy emir who was wanted by Spain
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey’s top appeals court threw out the conviction of an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)...
Turkish Embassy in Moscow is lobbying for jailed imam convicted of child molestation
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkish Embassy diplomats in Moscow have launched a lobbying campaign to shore up support for a jailed...
Judicial nominee for Turkey’s Constitutional Court called for destruction of Israel
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A top contender for a seat on Turkey’s Constitutional Court once called for the destruction of Israel,...
Turkey cuts life sentence to 3 years for ISIS emir who admitted to killing many in Syria
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Syrian man who admitted to fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and...
Turkey’s top appeals court freed ISIS convict linked to bomb making in Syria
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Ahmad al-Dahir, a Syrian national who had worked with an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)...
ISIS commander granted leniency at trial in Turkey and receives reduced sentence
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Tajik jihadist who worked with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the late leader of the Islamic State in...
