Secret records reveal how Turkey’s Gülen purge follows children into university
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In a sophisticated and far-reaching profiling campaign that bears historical similarities in its use of family-based political suspicion ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Turkish police chief who oversaw torture protected by Erdogan gov’t amid crackdown on critics
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A police chief who authorized horrific torture sessions against critics of the authoritarian regime of Turkish President Recep ...
Turkey’s intelligence agency expands as budget surges and power grows
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In mounting evidence that Turkey’s Islamist leadership is increasingly governing through its intelligence apparatus, the budget of the ...
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 ...
Kazakh medical student’s life upended by Turkish intelligence over false allegations
Abdullah Bozkurt/ Stockholm Turkey’s notorious intelligence agency, Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı (MIT), secretly designated a Kazakh medical student as a national ...
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