Attack on Israeli consulate in Istanbul reflects policies of Erdogan that enabled ISIS
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The recent terrorist attack on the Israeli consulate in Istanbul has once again highlighted how Turkish authorities have ...
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Deadly clash exposes systemic failures in Turkey’s fight against ISIS
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The death of three police officers during a counterterrorism operation against suspected Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ...
US flags Erdogan ally Turkish Hizbullah as terrorist group for immigration control
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In a discreet yet politically charged move, the US Department of State has flagged Turkish Hizbullah as a ...
Turkey retreats from justice in ISIS suicide bombing that killed Israelis
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Despite evidence of complicity in a suicide attack that killed foreigners including three Israeli citizens in Istanbul in ...
Spanish Supreme Court exposes Turkey’s role in channeling jihadists to Syria
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In July Spain’s Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a Spanish-Moroccan who fought with al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, Jabhat ...
Turkey was a conduit for jihadists to join ISIS in Syria, FBI told US court
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm An affidavit filed in US federal court details how an American man exploited Turkey’s position as a key ...
Hizb ut-Tahrir, backed by Turkish jihadist groups, challenges President Erdogan
Abdullah Bozkurt/ Stockholm Radical jihadist groups, emboldened under the increasingly permissive climate fostered by Turkey’s Islamist leadership, have turned their ...
Turkish court blocks indictment of Saudi al-Qaeda suspect for five years
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A prolonged legal tug-of-war in Turkey’s politicized judiciary has blocked the prosecution of a Saudi national suspected of ...
Israel kills Iranian Quds Force General Shahriyari once protected by Erdogan in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Behnam Shahriyari, a notorious general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force who once operated freely ...
The surge in special Turkish passports for visa-free travel fuels security and abuse concerns
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Data from a government printing office indicates that Turkey has significantly exceeded the reported issuance of special passports, ...
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