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 ...
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OECD slams Turkey’s foreign bribery enforcement as Erdogan-linked firm faces US case
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, long plagued by entrenched systemic corruption and blatant political interference in ...
Turkey’s Western-backed Ukraine arms deal tests ties with Russia
Levent Kenez/Stockholm A planned $283 million transfer of US-made weapons from Turkey to Ukraine has sparked a sharp warning from ...
Turkey’s military is rapidly making room for an Erdogan-era generation
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey’s latest military appointments show a command structure in transition. Although officers who began their careers long before ...
Turkish ISIS convict deported from Netherlands resurfaced in Somalia after rebuilding jihadist ties in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Turkish national who was expelled from the Netherlands after being convicted of preparing a terrorist attack was ...
Document shows 78 of Turkey’s top 100 taxpayers withheld their names from the public record
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey's Revenue Administration (GİB) released its annual list of top income taxpayers this week, with the most striking ...
Turkey shifts wiretapping, internet-control powers to Erdogan’s cybersecurity body
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey has transferred far-reaching powers over wiretapping, internet access, communications infrastructure, online censorship and digital traffic from the ...
Turkey taps ex-spies, foreign operatives and private networks to expand global surveillance
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey has steadily expanded its overseas intelligence machinery far beyond the formal ranks of its national spy agency, ...
Turkey trains a bigger Somali commando force to protect a government under pressure
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Somalia has for the first time sent an entire brigade of its elite Gorgor commandos to Turkey for ...
International cocaine trafficker wanted by Brazil built a business in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Jordanian drug trafficker with a criminal record stretching back three decades was able to settle in Turkey ...
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