Turkey sticks to policy of denial on Ecumenical Patriarchate’s status, government letter reveals
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey continues to deny the ecumenical status of the leader of some 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide by ...
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Erdogan uses Turkish NGOs to project power, advance political Islamist goal
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A letter signed by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan sheds light on how Ankara systematically leverages nongovernmental organizations ...
Turkey unable to push Russia to speed up nuclear plant construction as financial and diplomatic tensions mount
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Construction on Turkey’s first nuclear power plant, the $24 billion Akkuyu project on the Mediterranean coast, has slowed ...
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 ...
Turkey refused to seek extradition of ISIS fugitives behind deadliest terror attack
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The Islamist government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has never sought the extradition of fugitives responsible for ...
Erdogan gov’t accused of hiding a coup report to cover up evidence of false flag operation
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Nine years after a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, the most comprehensive parliamentary investigation into ...
US lawmakers target Turkey’s classification, triggering pushback from Erdogan gov’t
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A newly introduced bill in the US House of Representatives seeks to reassign Turkey from the European Desk ...
Erdogan appoints general accused of torture, corruption and aiding jihadists to lead $30 billion military fund
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Retired Lt. Gen. Zekai Aksakallı, a key figure in a controversial coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, ...
Turkey and Syria engage in secret talks on maritime border agreement
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A letter signed by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan confirms for the first time that secret negotiations have ...
Turkey’s FM criticizes nuclear weapons treaty as unjust, questions Turkish endorsement
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan criticized the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), calling it structurally ...
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