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Turkey’s top court blocked extradition of drug trafficker who facilitated major cocaine trafficking in Europe

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US sanctions reveal Iran’s growing reliance on Turkish companies to expand drone and missile programs

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Turkish envoy mobilized state power in attempt to free brother convicted of murder plot in US

January 15, 2026

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Turkish ambassador has tried to undermine a criminal case in the United States to save his jailed...

Erdogan’s expertise in navigating Iran trade grey areas faces new US tariff challenge

January 14, 2026

Levent Kenez/Stockholm US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose a 25 percent tariff on countries trading with Iran, following a...

Turkey’s juvenile crime crisis deepens as violence, drugs and easy weapon access drive a sharp rise

January 13, 2026

Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey is facing a growing juvenile crime crisis, marked by rising violence, increasing drug-related offenses and widespread access...

Cameroonian abused by police at Istanbul Airport amid impunity in Erdogan’s Turkey

January 12, 2026

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

January 9, 2026

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

January 8, 2026

Abdullah Bozkurt / Stockholm A secret blacklist maintained by the Turkish Union of Notaries (Türkiye Noterler Birliği, TNB) has been...

Turkey plans to run Syria through a parallel structure, according to secret plan

Turkey’s intelligence agency expands as budget surges and power grows

January 7, 2026

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

January 6, 2026

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

January 5, 2026

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In a US federal terrorism case, Turkey was publicly named as the sponsor of an al-Qaeda–linked militant group...

Erdogan punished investigators who probed 255 IRGC Quds Force operatives in Turkey

Iran-related espionage probe closed by Erdogan resurfaces amid drug scandal