Turkey’s top security official suspected of being a drug kingpin
January 21, 2021
Nordic Monitor The use of popular social networking and communication platforms such as Facebook, Skype, Tango, WhatsApp, Coco, Kakao,...
Read moreNordic Monitor Turkey’s relentless campaign to hunt down critics of the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan abroad reached...
Read moreAbdullah Bozkurt A German national of Turkish origin was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison in Turkey’s...
Read moreNordic Monitor In making reference to the National Tax Orders (Tekalif-i Milliye Emirleri) of the 1920s, President Recep Tayyip...
Read moreNordic Monitor Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed Basri Bağcı, who was deemed "unqualified" to be a judge...
Read moreNordic Monitor The European Parliament’s standing rapporteur on Turkey, Nacho Sánchez Amor, and the chair of the EP Delegation to...
Read moreNordic Monitor While the Turkish government has excluded political prisoners from a recently proposed amnesty bill, UN High Commissioner...
Read moreAbdullah Bozkurt The coronavirus pandemic has fueled hate and xenophobic speech in the predominantly pro-government Turkish media, which accuses...
Read moreNordic Monitor President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamist government has rejected calls from human rights organizations to release inmates from...
Read moreAbdullah Bozkurt A chief aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called the owner of a media group to...
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