Erdogan appoints general accused of torture, corruption and aiding jihadists to lead $30 billion military fund
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Retired Lt. Gen. Zekai Aksakallı, a key figure in a controversial coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, ...
Turkey and Syria engage in secret talks on maritime border agreement
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A letter signed by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan confirms for the first time that secret negotiations have ...
Turkey faces mounting defense challenges amid regional tensions
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey’s struggle to modernize its armed forces, hampered by sanctions, procurement delays and domestic political interference, has sparked ...
Turkey’s FM criticizes nuclear weapons treaty as unjust, questions Turkish endorsement
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan criticized the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), calling it structurally ...
EU’s aid to Turkey diverted to spying operations in Europe by Erdogan gov’t
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Hundreds of millions of euros from the €10 billion allocated by the European Union to support Turkey’s EU ...
Turkey suffers heavy losses as Iraq-Turkey pipeline remains shut amid corruption and diplomatic deadlock
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey faces mounting economic and geopolitical costs as the Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline, a key energy corridor linking northern ...
Israel kills Iranian Quds Force General Shahriyari once protected by Erdogan in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Behnam Shahriyari, a notorious general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force who once operated freely ...
Turkish intelligence secretly shipped arms to ISIS terrorist group in Syria
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The Turkish intelligence agency Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı (MIT) shipped weapons to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ...
Turkish President Erdogan’s operative in the US put on airline blacklist
Abdullah Bozkurt / Stockholm Ibrahim Halil Demir, a longtime executive of a Chicago-based Islamic charity with close ties to the ...
Turkish intelligence knew of ISIS safe houses before Reina attack, yet took no action
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkish intelligence was aware of ISIS safe houses in Turkey harboring terrorists, including 42-year-old Abdulkadir Masharipov (aka Abu ...
