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EP report slams Turkey’s foreign policy as confrontational and unaligned with EU norms

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Turkey struggles to counter EU-Cyprus gains among ‘brother states’

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Turkish defense minister misled Pentagon into believing he would thwart Erdoğan, stop Turkey’s slide from NATO

September 10, 2020

Abdullah Bozkurt Turkey’s Defense Minister and former Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar led the Pentagon to believe that...

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Tension between Turkey and the UAE reaches new peak with retaliatory moves

August 27, 2020

Nordic Monitor Tension between Turkey and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), former allies-turned-foes over open support for the Muslim...

Turkey revisits secret Suga navy plot to provoke Greece, raising specter of clashes

August 24, 2020

Abdullah Bozkurt Turkey appears to have doubled back to a previously exposed secret plot called Suga that was planned...

Russia had Turkish AH-1 Cobra downed in response to Turkey’s shooting down of Su-24 jet

August 16, 2020

Abdullah Bozkurt The Turkish army believed a missile that was used to down a Turkish Cobra helicopter on May...

Turkish Embassy in Prague spied on President Erdogan’s critics

May 8, 2021

Nordic Monitor Judicial documents have confirmed that critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan were spied on by Turkish diplomats...

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Turkey’s Beijing embassy fails to mention Uyghurs in its annual report

August 4, 2020

Nordic Monitor The 2019 annual report of the Turkish Embassy in Beijing, released by Ambassador Abdulkadir Emin Önen on...

Turkish diplomat who coordinated abductions in Kosovo named human rights chief in Turkey

Turkey signed secret agreements with several states to conduct state-sponsored extraterritorial abductions, UN letter underlines

July 23, 2020

Nordic Monitor The Turkish government signed bilateral security cooperation agreements with multiple states that were phrased ambiguously to allow...

Anonymous Twitter account run by Turkish gov’t spreads disinformation in 7 languages

by Levent Kenez

July 10, 2020

Levent Kenez It is no secret that the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been enlisting a large...

Egypt declined Turkey’s repeated requests to extradite educator Ali Bayram, document reveals

July 23, 2020

Nordic Monitor Egypt denied the extradition of dedicated educator Ali Bayram on dubious terrorism charges brought by the government...

Al-Qadi wanted Erdoğan’s chief aide to promote a Turkish diplomat working in Saudi Arabia