NATO summit becomes Erdogan’s show of force to wipe out remaining opposition at home
Levent Kenez/Stockholm When 75-year-old retired teacher and environmental volunteer Ayten Yakut boarded a bus for a birdwatching trip outside Ankara, ...
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Erdogan’s family built a nationwide paramilitary network to sustain repressive rule in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The father-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's younger son has quietly built a nationwide civilian network that ...
Turkey’s rulers rely on sprawling prison system to suppress opposition and silence critics
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The Turkish government’s aggressive use of imprisonment against critics, dissidents and political opponents has continued to drive the ...
Inner messaging ecosystem of Erdogan’s ruling AKP shapes Turkey’s hostile worldview
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey’s Islamist ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) appears to have cultivated a far more ideological and confrontational ...
Cameroonian abused by police at Istanbul Airport amid impunity in Erdogan’s Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm An aircraft passenger from Africa who used Turkey as a transit point en route to his final destination ...
Top US scholars, in a legal brief, cast Turkey as the template for eroding judicial independence
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A rare intervention by a group of internationally renowned scholars in a high-stakes US federal criminal case has ...
US judge blocks Turkey’s attempt to weaponize American courts in political witch hunt
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A federal judge in New York has joined his peers in other US states in halting the Turkish ...
Erdoğan uses Turkish intelligence agency MIT to silence critics, threaten foreign nations
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The notorious Turkish intelligence service, Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı (MIT), long regarded as a loyal enforcer of President Recep ...
Turkish spy agency steps up recruitment of informants among diaspora during holiday season
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm As millions of Turkish flock to Turkey’s resort towns and cities for the summer holidays, the country’s intelligence ...
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