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Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar greenlighted torture at illegal detention site
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Asım Şanöz, a major who worked as overseas planning officer at General Staff headquarters, accused Turkish the...
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Turkish diplomats spied on Erdoğan critics in Malawi, triggered criminal investigation, documents reveal
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Judicial documents obtained by Nordic Monitor have confirmed that six Turkish nationals in Malawi had been profiled by...
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Erdoğan determined to make Africa a new market for Turkish arms sales
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday hosted Angolan President Joao Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço in Ankara in the...
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Turkish prosecutor reviewed RAPCON records at Incirlik Air Base to investigate US troops over coup bid
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Turkish prosecutor secretly investigated Radar Approach and Control (RAPCON) records at Incirlik Air Base, where the...
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Germany rejected Turkey’s request to hand over writer critical of Erdoğan government
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Germany rejected Turkey’s request to hand over a writer critical of the government of President Recep Tayyip...
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Turkey’s Islamist government unhappy with developments in Tunisia, careful not to anger Saudis and Egyptians
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey's Islamist government does not want to be in a position that overwhelmingly supports the Tunisian Islamist...
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President Erdoğan cheats on FATF rules in cracking down on terrorist groups in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which has aided and abetted armed jihadist groups and laundered...
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Documents show notorious Turkish ambassadors involved in spying on Erdoğan critics in South Africa
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Nordic Monitor has obtained new documents on espionage and profiling activities carried out by Turkish diplomats against...
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Erdoğan gov’t to censor foreign-funded media in Turkey despite financing many foreign media outlets itself
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Fahrettin Altun, the Turkish presidency's director of communications, frequently called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's propaganda chief by...
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Abu Hanzala, who inspired many to join al-Qaeda and ISIS, runs jihadist outfit from a prison in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The network of jailed jihadist preacher Abu Hanzala (real name Halis Bayancuk), who encouraged many young men...
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