Turkey risks recession as massive fund scandal implicates Erdogan’s family and inner circle
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey faces a growing risk of recession as a massive investment fund scandal threatens confidence in its financial ...
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Turkey’s $20 billion fund scandal sparks media crackdown as questions mount over Erdogan’s inner circle
Levent Kenez/Stockholm A collapse involving $20 billion in Turkish investment funds has spread from financial markets into politics and the ...
Rise of new mobster Ali Ugur Uzun exposes Turkey’s deepening state-mafia nexus
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, already under international scrutiny over documented contacts between senior political figures ...
Turkey’s fund scandal exposes Finland ties to Erdogan’s inner circle
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey’s growing investment fund scandal has opened a new line of inquiry stretching from the country’s financial markets ...
Erdogan government advances plan to tighten social media controls ahead of possible early elections
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The Turkish government is preparing legislation that would require social media users to link their accounts to their ...
Erdogan gov’t turns LGBTQ+ crackdown into national security and espionage case
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey's expanding crackdown on LGBTQ+ organizations has moved beyond arrests, raids and online restrictions to scrutiny of millions ...
Secret Turkish intelligence letter targeting journalist in Sweden reveals panic over exposure
Nordic Monitor/Stockholm A secret letter sent by Turkey’s intelligence agency (Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı, MIT) complaining about an investigative article has ...
Turkey’s deepening nexus with organized crime is no accident, but a matter of deliberate design
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Over more than a decade, organized crime syndicates ranging from drug trafficking networks to racketeering groups have operated ...
Erdogan gov’t uses bloody school attacks to justify crackdown on VPNs and internet access
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The Turkish government is preparing a new regulatory framework that will require virtual private network (VPN) providers to ...
Erdogan gov’t claims social media platforms agree to mandatory ID login as censorship and pressure increase
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey is preparing new legislation that will require social media users to log in with their national identification ...
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