Secret passport scheme in Turkey allowed foreigners to enter undetected
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A secret scheme allowing individuals to enter Turkey without passing through immigration or leaving any trace of their ...
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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 ...
Sweden’s pro-Erdogan Islamist party leader quits, accuses mosques of steering Muslim voters to rivals
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The leader of a Turkish-linked Islamist party in Sweden resigned on election night after his party lost nearly ...
Erdogan government moves to change election rules to secure a new term
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has chosen to change the rules of Turkey’s presidential contest rather ...
Erdogan targets anonymous users in sweeping social media crackdown
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is preparing legislation that would require identity verification for social ...
A mafia boss in the UAE continues to direct violence in Turkey despite INTERPOL warrant
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A new series of mafia shootings in Turkey has revived concerns that fugitive crime boss Sedat Peker, a ...
Europe confronts a new menace: Turkish gangs born from Ankara’s institutional breakdown
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The systematic dismantling of Turkey’s law enforcement agencies, intelligence services and judiciary over the past decade — carried ...
Turkey has become a haven for organized crime: Hitmen and smugglers now advertise publicly
Nordic Monitor/Stockholm Turkey’s evolving mafia-style governance, shaped by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist administration and reinforced by his far-right ally ...
Turkish defense minister admits online gambling now linked to rising suicides in armed forces
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey is facing a growing problem as officials and civil society groups report a link between online gambling ...
Turkey’s drug seizures reveal a much larger trafficking pipeline under political protection
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm When Turkey’s trade minister, Ömer Bolat, addressed the Turkish Parliament’s Budget and Planning Committee on November 5, his ...
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