Abdullah Bozkurt, Author at Nordic Monitor

Following protracted negotiations between the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and Ankara over electing a new...

Turkish Prosecutor’s Document Suggests Turkey Spying on U.S. Soil

A Turkish prosecution obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) could offer the first public documentation showing Turkish...

Erdoğan gov’t secretly investigated spouses, children of lawyers in Turkey

Turkey denied political prisoners the right to vote in local elections

April 11, 2019

In a clear violation of Turkish law and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR),...

Turkish journalist imprisoned for more than 3 years for exposing dirty laundry of Erdoğan gov’t

Turkish investigative journalist and author Bayram Kaya, who exposed clandestine, dirty deals made by the Turkish intelligence agency under...

Turkish Embassy spied on network of schools in South Africa

The Turkish Embassy in Pretoria spied on critics of the government of Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in South...

Erdoğan and his allies ready to dump NATO, but worried over impact on Turkish economy

Commentary by Abdullah Bozkurt Turkey’s ruling elite, composed of Islamists and neo-nationalists, have been agitating for a hard breakup with...

Turkey applies pressure on Twitter, Facebook, Google and YouTube to share data on critics

Use of Gmail, Hotmail, WhatsApp, Telegram sparked counterterrorism probe in Turkey

In a further sign of how the Turkish government has escalated its campaign to criminalize secure digital communications, as...

Turkey asks South Africa to extradite critics in exchange for deporting ISIL terrorists

The Turkish government has offered an exchange of Islamist State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) detainees of South...

Australian ISIL terrorist Prakash will be free in 2 years thanks to lenient Turkish judges