Monday’s raid on the country’s oldest independent newspaper, Cumhuriyet, and detentions of 18 of its executives and journalists, will be remembered as a watershed moment for Turkey. It was the . . .
Archives for October 2016
Turkey joins the battle in Mosul but at what cost?
Turkey’s insistence on playing a role in the battle to retake Iraq’s second biggest city Mosul seems to have paid off. Despite the ongoing rift between Turkey and Iraq over Turkey’s participation . . .
Turkey, the foreign media and black propaganda
On the day Syrian rebels, backed by Turkish troops and air-power, captured Dabiq from Islamic State, and hours before two separate a suicide attacks killed three police officers and injured several . . .
Europe and Turkey-are they speaking the same language on rights?
Responding to the latest move to censor media, lawyer and former Istanbul Bar Association chairman, Turgut Kazan said it was not possible to talk of rule of law in Turkey anymore. He is not the . . .