Cameroonian abused by police at Istanbul Airport amid impunity in Erdogan’s Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm An aircraft passenger from Africa who used Turkey as a transit point en route to his final destination ...
Study finds Turkey’s Central Asia diplomacy broad but limited by coordination and transparency gaps and rivalry with Russia and China
A study published in a journal of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s propaganda office, the Presidential Directorate of Communications, provides a ...
Secret blacklist bars Erdogan’s critics from notary services at home and abroad
Abdullah Bozkurt / Stockholm A secret blacklist maintained by the Turkish Union of Notaries (Türkiye Noterler Birliği, TNB) has been ...
Turkey’s intelligence agency expands as budget surges and power grows
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In mounting evidence that Turkey’s Islamist leadership is increasingly governing through its intelligence apparatus, the budget of the ...
Maduro’s capture shines fresh light on drug trafficking, shady gold trade and Erdogan ties
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by US forces and his transfer to New York have reignited ...
Turkey’s state sponsorship of terrorism registered in US judicial documents
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In a US federal terrorism case, Turkey was publicly named as the sponsor of an al-Qaeda–linked militant group ...
Iran-related espionage probe closed by Erdogan resurfaces amid drug scandal
Levent Kenez /Stockholm An espionage investigation shut down more than a decade ago by the Turkish government has returned to ...
Libya-linked POS money-laundering case in Turkey leaves key actors untouched
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Forced to launch an investigation into a money-laundering ring tied to Libya under mounting international pressure, Turkish authorities ...
Erdogan’s son emerges as new key figure overseeing Turkey’s pro-government diaspora network
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The Union of International Democrats (UID), the main overseas political network aligned with Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development ...
Deadly clash exposes systemic failures in Turkey’s fight against ISIS
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The death of three police officers during a counterterrorism operation against suspected Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ...
