Erdogan government advances plan to tighten social media controls ahead of possible early elections
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The Turkish government is preparing legislation that would require social media users to link their accounts to their ...
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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 ...
Erdogan gov’t turns LGBTQ+ crackdown into national security and espionage case
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey's expanding crackdown on LGBTQ+ organizations has moved beyond arrests, raids and online restrictions to scrutiny of millions ...
Turkey tried to have key US witness in an Iran sanctions-busting case killed in a New York jail
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The Turkish government tried to have Iranian-Turkish gold trader Reza Zarrab killed inside a US federal detention facility ...
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 ...
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 ...
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