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Spain’s cocaine seizure exposes how Turkey lets drug lords and suspects walk free
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Spain’s record seizure of nearly 10 tons of cocaine from a cargo ship in the Atlantic Ocean has...
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New bill shows the EU has huge leverage over Turkey in trade
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The European Union’s new emissions rules and emerging local-content requirements are pushing Turkey’s automotive industry toward a critical...
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Erdogan-led Turkey Wealth Fund reveals trillions in debt and widespread limits on independent audits
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The latest audit report for the Turkey Wealth Fund (TWF) shows that the state-run fund accumulated more than...
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Turkish envoy mobilized state power in attempt to free brother convicted of murder plot in US
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Turkish ambassador has tried to undermine a criminal case in the United States to save his jailed...
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Erdogan’s expertise in navigating Iran trade grey areas faces new US tariff challenge
Levent Kenez/Stockholm US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose a 25 percent tariff on countries trading with Iran, following a...
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Turkey’s juvenile crime crisis deepens as violence, drugs and easy weapon access drive a sharp rise
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey is facing a growing juvenile crime crisis, marked by rising violence, increasing drug-related offenses and widespread access...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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