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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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 ...
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 ...
Albania school incident fuels scrutiny of Erdogan’s controversial Maarif network
Levent Kenez/Stockholm A confrontation between a school director and students at a Turkish-run private school in Albania has triggered public ...
Quds Force operative protected by Erdogan leads a Turkish group to fight alongside Iran
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2014 halted a major counterterrorism and espionage investigation into the ...
Erdogan gov’t uses bloody school attacks to justify crackdown on VPNs and internet access
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The Turkish government is preparing a new regulatory framework that will require virtual private network (VPN) providers to ...
Inner messaging ecosystem of Erdogan’s ruling AKP shapes Turkey’s hostile worldview
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey’s Islamist ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) appears to have cultivated a far more ideological and confrontational ...
Erdogan advisor linked to IRGC Quds Force spent several years at World Bank in Washington
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Documents obtained from a confidential terrorism investigation into an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force network in ...
Erdogan insider reveals how Turkey developed special ways to beat US sanctions on Iran
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In a rare public admission, former Turkish prime minister and foreign minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has provided one of ...
Spain’s cocaine seizure exposes how Turkey lets drug lords and suspects walk free
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Spain’s record seizure of nearly 10 tons of cocaine from a cargo ship in the Atlantic Ocean has ...
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