Turkish government plans to boost Diyanet budget as its foreign network expands
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey’s controversial Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet), which oversees mosques, trains imams and funds religious programs at home and ...
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Erdogan keeps funding Islamist foundation abroad even as Turkey’s economy under strain
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signed off on a record 7.51 billion lira budget ceiling for the ...
Turkey enlists international students to promote gov’t narratives, counter Erdogan dissidents
Levent Kenez/Stockholm International students studying in Turkey are increasingly being integrated into state-sponsored programs designed to promote the political narratives ...
Former spy chief transformed Turkey’s Foreign Ministry into a platform for intelligence operations abroad
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The transformation of Turkey’s diplomatic service into an intelligence and security apparatus under former spy chief Hakan Fidan ...
A man whose family has extensive links to Turkish government indicted in US over alleged plot to poison, kill, terrorize pro-Israel targets
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A man who has family members in the Turkish government has been indicted in the United States on federal ...
Turkish spies gather intelligence in French city near German border, document reveals
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A leaked Turkish government document obtained by Nordic Monitor reveals that Turkish intelligence operatives conducted surveillance activities in ...
Turkish government book challenges Sweden’s tolerance, backs controversial diaspora figures
Levent Kenez/Stockholm A book published by Turkey’s Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB) argues that while Sweden promotes ...
Turks among top groups stripped of French citizenship over jihadist terror links
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In the past decade Franco-Turkish nationals have emerged as one of the leading categories of individuals stripped of ...
EU’s aid to Turkey diverted to spying operations in Europe by Erdogan gov’t
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Hundreds of millions of euros from the €10 billion allocated by the European Union to support Turkey’s EU ...
Turkish President Erdogan’s operative in the US put on airline blacklist
Abdullah Bozkurt / Stockholm Ibrahim Halil Demir, a longtime executive of a Chicago-based Islamic charity with close ties to the ...
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