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Turkish spy agency MIT agents shadowed foreign aid and rescue teams in quake zone
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkish intelligence agency MIT shadowed foreign aid workers who were deployed to contribute to rescue and relief...
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Turkish police chase down social media users who shared messages critical of the gov’t after massive earthquakes
Levent Kenez /Stockholm Turkish police continue to go after people it claims to have shared "provocative" posts on social media after...
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Erdoğan’s paramilitary unit SADAT peddles conspiracies amid quake, NATO expansion
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Private Turkish military contractor SADAT, a paramilitary unit loyal to the president of Turkey, has been peddling conspiracy...
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Hamas front company in Turkey continues its operations despite US sanction
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Turkish company that was sanctioned by the US Treasury last year over a covert Hamas financing network...
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Afraid of looking weak, Erdoğan gov’t uncomfortable with post-quake aid from civil society at home and abroad
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been facing harsh criticism from the opposition for failing...
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Breakaway Turkish Cyprus hopes Israel-Turkey normalization will help reopen its office in Tel Aviv
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Negotiations between Turkey and Israel as part of the normalization of ties included the reopening of a trade...
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Europe’s largest lawyers organization calls on Turkish government to stop criminalizing their colleagues
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), which represents the bar associations and law societies...
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Turkish intelligence agency MIT executed PSYOP to save Erdoğan’s battered image after quake
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The Turkish intelligence agency (Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı, MIT) has launched a psychological and influence operation (PSYOP) to...
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Int’l aid pouring into Turkey after massive earthquakes thwarts government’s anti-Western and nationalist rhetoric
Levent Kenez/Stockholm According to the Turkish Foreign Ministry, 89 countries and 16 international organizations have provided aid to Turkey following...
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Devastating earthquake ruined Erdoğan’s re-election plans for May
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in a weekly address to party deputies in January, announced that early presidential...
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