EU report praises Turkey on migration, suggests no action on authoritarianism
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The European Commission’s annual report on Turkey gives one of the toughest reviews of the country’s democracy in ...
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Turkey, top abuser of INTERPOL, now seeks to govern it
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey has announced a candidate for the presidency of INTERPOL at its upcoming General Assembly, scheduled for November ...
Billions in EU aid fail to bring Turkey closer to Europe as each side enjoys the status quo
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey has been allocated more than 24 billion euros in grants and humanitarian aid from the European Union since ...
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 ...
Brazilan Supreme Court draws the line: No extradition for Erdogan’s political foes
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm When Brazilian Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal, STF) Justice Flávio Dino revoked the detention of Turkish-Brazilian national Mustafa ...
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 ...
In today’s Turkey, threats to kill Americans and Jews are deemed protected free speech
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In yet another troubling sign of Turkey’s increasingly partisan judiciary — dominated by Islamists and far-right nationalists — ...
Turkey secretly plots to bypass INTERPOL rules to target exiled journalist in Sweden
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A classified memo issued by Turkey’s Security General Directorate (Emniyet) reveals covert efforts to circumvent INTERPOL rules in ...
UN puts a spotlight on Turkey’s jailing of lawyers, judges in sham cases
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey was put on notice by the United Nations for a systematic and deliberate campaign to crack ...
Turkish gov’t refuses to release inmates despite detection of coronavirus in overcrowded prisons
Nordic Monitor President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamist government has rejected calls from human rights organizations to release inmates from ...
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